unhcr is ramping up but there are a lot of people living in miserable conditions right now and with very little information about what is going to happen with their lives." new arrivals urged the macedonian government to open its borders. only a tiny trickle of syrian and iraqi refugees are allowed through intermittently-- leaving about ten- thousand more people camped on the greek side, with more arriving daily. coming up on wavy news 10 - african-americans are twice as likely to die from certain illnesses. see what the governement is doing to try to turn it around. then at five-thirty - another country is added to the list with cases of zika virus -- plus when we can expect to see the zika-spreading if you treated your tablet like greasy fast food treats your body... you'd have no way to watch cat videos. so say no to greasy, fast food... and treat your body right... with the delicious rotisserie-style chicken sandwich from subway. made with our new hand-pulled, all-white meat chicken raised without antibiotics... all on our freshly-baked bread. the subway sandwich shop. african-americ

even the unhcr told us it's going to take a long time for people to get a pointments and apply but theyre hoping the government employs more staff members to speed up the process. >>> the would-be presidential candidate bernie san dors won the alaska circus. a clean sweep would narrow the gap between himself and hillary clinton. >>> at a rally, an unexpected visitor who could help his campaign to take off. >> this little bird doesn't know it. >> on twitter. where else. he was quickly renamed "birdy sanders. although it didn't look like a dove, he thought it was asking for world peace. that's what we think he said. catherine barrett is in seattle for us. catherine, it's a lovely part of the world. washington state, alaska, who wouldn't want to go there? but will it make any difference even if he wins all three? >> reporter: the national delegate math is hard thing to surmount. washington state is the biggest prize in the three caucuses today but even if he wins all three of those states, he is separated from hillary's delegate count by over 700. so he would have to win nearly 60 first of

border with macedonia for weeks now have decided to move to government-run camps according to the unhcr. 150 people boarded buses on friday. the buss are here today as well. they're hoping that they can relocate more people. but there they're facing another problem. it's not just persuading people to leave here but the fact that there isn't enough space. these accommodation centers cannot house all these people. greek authorities are struggling to deal with this crisis. there are 50,000 migrants and refugees across the country. but of course there are those who do not want to leave. they still have hopes that the border will open even though many of the people you talk to are relying on the fact that they may be stuck here. but they say they can pressure the mad down i can't authorities, pressure the e.u. and keep their plight in the international media so they will not be forgotten. right now they have to apply for asylum. they have to apply for the relocation program, and this will take months. and people are growing desperate. especially those who want to be reunited with their famil

refugee agency, the unhcr has expressed concern and questioned its concern. >> it is not consistent with international law. >> even tougher. >> in the cold light of day it is fraught with problems. if the e.u.'s idea of taking part in the global responsibility, global sharing of refugees is to make the number of syrian refugees take in conditional on the number of syrians prepares to risk their lives in a boat, that's decision making from the heart of a moral abyss. >> people the picture of people being forcebly moved will be deeply controversial. james bays, al jazeera. >> the coast guard continues to pick up refugees from turkey. we have this report. >> men, women and children agreed to land on lesbos. rescued from at least four rubber dinghies. >> peace. all we want is a future for our children. >> by early afternoon more than 500 ranche 500 refugees across water, a dangerous trip. hundreds have lost their lives this year when the bodies capsized in the agean sea. >> this is a significant movement facilitated by the smugglers. this is happening because there aren't any credible altern

. >> reporter: the unhcr are saying they were not privy or party in any way to this plan, and they areking urgent clarification from the european union. they say on first reading, though, they are very concerned. they gave a news conference here at the headquarters in geneva. and there i asked the regional coordinator for the refugee crisis whether this e.u. plan in his view could be illegal under international hm law. >> yes, collective expulsion of foreigners is prohibited under the european convention of human rights, or an agreement that would be important mount to blanket return to any foreigners to a certain country is not consistent with european law or international law. >> reporter: the u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon has added his voice to the controversy, he was speaking in berlin, he says he believes some e.u. makeses were shunning their rogs ponsableties. >> reporter: meanwhile the greek coast guard continues to pick up hundreds of refugees crossing from turkey. mohamed is there and sent this report. >> reporter: one by one, they stagger off of the boat and on to the gr

i then put a question to the regional response coordinator of the unhcr for the refugee crisis in europe and i said could this be a breach of international humanitarian law. this was his answer: >> yes, collective -- an agreement that would be tantamount to blanket return of any foreigners to a country is not consistent with european law, is not consistent with international law. we need to see what can be the safeguards and i can't believe that the european union would agree with the safeguards that it has when in relation to readmission to all e.u. countries. in other words, if you want to return one person from 1e.u. country to another, you have certain safeguards under the dublin regulation. there cannot be less safeguards when we talk about readmission to reentry outside of the european union. >> we understand u.n. secretary ban ki-moon has weighed in, as well with that what's he's been saying? >> ban ki-moon is on a visit to europe, currently in berlin. he's having a meeting with angela merkel, the german chancellor and we know that in that meeting, top of the agenda is going to be

police and unhcr workers explain the evacuation is voluntary, and the conditions in the camps are betterrefer to stay here. for now they are blocking the railway tracks leading across the border. they are hoping their blockade will help persuade the macedonian authorities to let them in. >> translator: some people have been separated from their families. i have two children in germany, what if the relocation program sends me somewhere else? what do i do? >> reporter: the refugees are losing patience and they fear the e.u. program to relocate them across the continent will take months. we are human beings, they say. >> there are some challenges in this relocation program. they are due to logistical issues. the capacity of procession, of course, is limited, so even the government is now scaling up. we know they are recruiting more people, and so we know for sure that in -- in the next days the capacity will increase. >> reporter: greece is now home to 50,000 migrants and refugees who say they feel trapped. people are confused here. there is a lot of uncertainty and the conditions are only

than 600,000 syrians are sheltering in jordan and other syrian refugees have traveled to europe and unhcr the last five years the u.n. states received almost 900,000 asylum applications from syrian refugees and zaina has this update on the greek-macedonia border where thousands of refugees are still stranded. >> reporter: what the u.n. wants is for richer contries to share the burden and help other countries who are unable to cope with the numbers of migrants and refugees now on their soil. greece used to be a transit country and it's now a host country with 50,000 people stranded here. the u.n. is hoping that the eu relocation program can really move forward because since it was agreed in september just a few hundred people have been relocated, the eu commissioner for migration wants 6,000 people to be relocated a week but that is going to be a very difficult task because grease does not have the infrastructure or logistics in place for all these people to start applying for asylum and start applying for relocation program and people are growing increasingly desperate, a lot have been se

so accordingly, and in line with unhcr's policy on opposing mandatory detention, we have suspended activities. >> the deal between the eu and turkey which is meant to stop the flow of refugees in europe is being prematurely implemented and without proper safe gardens. new refugees are meant to apply for asylum but also refugees are retained to camps, held against their will, so no longer will it transport people to those camps. >> u.n.hcr has a manned to protect refugees, does not have a mandate to detain them. so it's noting good to be involved in processing or facilitating mass deportations, it is there to make sure they get proper accommodations and they will continue to do those things. >> refugees going back to turkey more still come. however, when they land the blue tabbards of the u.n. will not be there to greet them. rob matheson, al jazeera. >> libya currently has two rival governments one in the eastern city of tobruk and the other in trib li. the trib li government did not allow the u.n. en invoice marvin kobler to land there. eastern government is saying the unity government must

the unhcr says forced displacement globally exceeds 60 million people for the first time. it's an unprecedented move for the ioc which has know featured an all refugee team. in december they identified three potential refugees. a swimmer from syria, now in germany. a person from kong go in brazil and a tae kwon do fighter from >>> right now getting you caught up on the race for the white house in the last half hour governor rick scott posting on facebook he will not endorse any republican candidate this year. >> wright he trusts the voters. this is as theory are lots of rumors he's going to throw his support behind trump might want that vp pick but it looks like they squashed all of that now. >>> also right now a new york judge is considering whether ted cruz is eligible to run for president. cruz is snot at the -- is not at the hearing but a few voters and evep donald trump have said that he can't run. ms.mother, though, was born in united states. >>> new jersey governor chris christie for now he has n plans of hitting the campaign trail with donald trump but emight in th

talking on behalf of the unhcr. thank you. there isn't always a lot to celebrate if you.be a migrant. but these in thailand have a rare victory. money has been paid to workers for unpaid overtime. >> this there is a sense of change among some workers in thailand's food processing very. emboldened by the decision from their employer to pay compensation to more than a thousand of its workers this group came to see the provincial governor to see why they weren't clued. the governor would not speak to us on camera. he assured that the workers would also be paid after initially being excluded because they're not full-time employees at the tuna processing factories. but they shared the same complaint. they're owed money for overtime. >> we're so upset they paid for the others, but why not us. we work there, too. >> al jazeera highlighted problems at golden prize last year after workers walked off the job in protest. company management would not comment about the $1.3 million payout, but it comes at a sensitive time for thailand. in july the united states will release it's lates

the unhcr said over the last five years, eu countries have received close to 1 million asylum applications from syrian refugees. let's get more from zeina hodor. tell us what the situation is like there for people who have reached that far. >> some 12,000 people stuck living out in the open, very close to the border. some refusing to leave, some of them refusing to move into accommodation centers, because they still have hope the border will open, even though they have been repeatedly told by that authorities here that that is not going to happen. the u.n. calling on richer countries to take in more refugees, the u.n. has criticized the european union for its response to the migrant crisis. the u.n. believe that is closing the borders, erecting fences, that is not the answer. now these people have two choices, to apply for asylum in greece or to the e.u. relocation program. people believe it will take months and sometimes years before their cases will be heard and they can be relocate across the continent and people are losing patience, especially since once the borders close, it separate

. >> reporter: the unhcr are saying they were not privy or party to this plan and they are seeking urgentrification from the european union. they say on first reading they are very concerned. they gave a news conference here at the headquarters in geneva and there i asked the regional coordinator for the refugee crisis whether this e.u. plan in his view could be illegal under international humanitarian law. >> yes, collective expulsion of foreigners is prohibited under the convince of human rights. an agreement that would be tantamount to blanket return to assert re-entry is not consistent with european law or international law. >> reporter: meanwhile ban ki-moon is on a visit to europe speaking in berlin, he says he believes some e.u. nations were shunning their humanitarian responsibilities. >> reporter: thousands of frustrated people stuck in greece have been pleading with macedonia to open its border. >> the balkan state is right now only allowing in a small number of refugees to cross each day. they have been gathering at the border fence demanding that they be let through so they ca

. >> let's hear now from the unhcr's regional coordinator for the refugee crisis in europe. he's live for us from geneva. we have a snapshot, a flavor of what people are going through. this is not a political problem. this is a humanitarian crisis that is everyone's responsibility, isn't it? >> absolutely, it is earn's responsibility to deal with that crisis, not only turkey. let's remind us that 94 persons of the people arriving in greece are coming from syria, iraq, afghanistan. they are migrants in search of a better area. >> the fuss is very much at the moment on europe, but what about the refugees who are in places like jordan, in northern iraq. in lebanon. the refugee crisis there dwarfs the one going on in europe at the moment. >> absolutely. i mean, the vast majority of the people fleeing those conflicts, i've mentioned, afghanistan, iraq and syria, are in the countries neighboring those countries of origin. and efforts must be made to stabilize the situation in those countries as much as possible. we've seen two months ago a conference in london. a lot of pledges we

refugee agency, unhcr, reported that 46% of the more than 150,000 refugees inundating europe this yearia. those numbers outpace last year's, when a record one million people fled to europe. many make the perilous sea crossing from turkey to greece, but now, because balkan borders are blocked, thousands are stranded in greece. at an e.u. summit last week, turkish prime minister ahmet davutoglu offered to take back huge numbers of migrants in exchange for $3 billion in aid and progress on turkey's joining the european union. >> warner: the e.u. summit with turkey resumes later this week. >> brown: for more on this ever- growing refugee crisis, five years into the syria war, i'm joined by filippo grandi, who two months ago started his five- year term as the united nations high commissioner for refugees. >> brown: let's start with the tentativedale margaret was talking about between the e.u. and turkey. what is your objection to being turkey bring back some of those refugees? >> i think we should put this in context. turkey is the country that hosts the largest number of syrian refugees. w

that's a 60% increase from 37.5 million displaced people recorded bid unhcr a decade ago. over 50% of the refugee population is now made up of children below 18 years of age, marking the highest child refugee figure in more than ten years. in 2014, over 34,000 asylum applications were submitted by unaccompanied or separated children across 82 countries. that's the highest count on record since the agency began collecting this data in 2006. the war in syria and the rise of the islamic state have been the driving factors behind the unprecedented surge in global displacement. approximately 7.6 million people have been internally is displaced within syria alone and more than 4 million refugees have fled the country since the start of the conflict in 201. the stock increase in global force displacement, coupled with devastating terrorist attacks in paris, san bernardino, beirut, istanbul and ankara and turkey and just yesterday brussels, belgium, have led to ongoing policy debates in the u.s. over how best to prevent terrorists from infiltrating our legitimate immigration proce

well, then let' s find a unhcr camp that' ll take them. much as i would love to help, these refugees do not fall under our jurisdiction. understood. i' jane, when does the italian ship dock in tripoli? uh... 2200. why? have you read the cia interview with this guy ramzi shamekh? just the highlights, yeah. he' s an old cia source who they interviewed post-attack ' cause he' s got a cousin in hs. wasn' t much else there though, right? he says disah used to make frequent visits to the al wahat district before and after the attacks. well, that' s near our mechanic' s village. so... so look at the map. it' s famous for its red clay flats. there' s your corroboration. two sources that put disah in the area in the days after the bombing. and one of them' s about to step off a boat and straight into the enemy' s hands. we have to tell russell. we don' t have time. now, just back me up here. i' m going straight to elizabeth. we' millions have switched... and discovered the sprint network really is faster. plus, it's more reliable with better covera

according to the unhcr. 40450 people boarded buses and they are hoping to relocate more people but theyacing another problem it's not just persuading people to leave here but the fact that there is not enough space, these accommodation centers cannot hawes all these people. greek authorities are struggling to deal with this crisis. there are now 50,000 migrants and refugee as cross the country. but, of course, there are those who no 'do not want to leave. they still have hope that the border will hope, even though many people you talk to are now resigned to the fact that they may being stuck here. but they believe that by staying here they can pressure the macedonian authorities, pressure the e.u., keep their knight in the international -- polite in the international media so they will not be forgotten of the right now they have to apply to sigh lum and the relocation program. and this is going to take months and people are becoming desperate. they told us it will take a long time for these people to get appointments and to apply. but they are hoping tomorrow ploy the greek government e

refugee agency the unhcr expressed concern and questioned its legality. >> do you fear that currentlyroposal in its current form could be illegal under international humanitarian law? >> yes, collective expulsion of foreign news is prohibited under the european convention of human rights, agreement that would be tantamount of return of any foreign news to entry is not consistent with european law, is not consistent with international law. >> reporter: even tougher criticism of the deal which was negotiated until the early hours of the morning in brussels has come from human rights organizations. >> it's an extraordinary idea, an idea that might sound gook at 1:00 in the morning but in the cold light of day it is fraught with problems. if the eu's idea of taking part in a global responsibility, global sharing of refugees is to make the number of syrian refugees it takes in conditional on the number of syrians prepared to risk their lives in a boat well that is decision making from the heart of a moral abyss. >> reporter: eu leaders meet again in a week's time and u.n. wants clarificati

unhcr said it would no longer help transfer migrants and refugees to detention centers, from which some could be deported. the agency's action could disrupt the deal with turkey signed last friday, which is aimed at halting the migrant flow. and the walls being re-built in europe will likely only grow taller after today's attacks in brussels. from the island of lesbos, in greece, special correspondent malcolm brabant reports. >> reporter: this was one of the last boats to land on the beaches of southern lesbos. it was a desperate attempt to beat the deadline set by europe, which effectively shut down the refugee trail. the screams marked the moment of realization that two people had been suffocated in the chaos and darkness of the crossing. as medical teams fought in vain to revive the crush victims, a syrian called bashir encapsulated the migrants' aspirations. >> we hope they don't take this into effect. we hope that we can make it to europe. i don't know. if we are lucky we can move on, if we are not, i don't know what will happen to us. >> reporter: for two consecutive nights, the v

also the unhcr expressed great concerns about this deal to be put in place.y want to ensure that refugees' rights are protect under international law and are not sure if the accord actually will protect the rights of these refugees. there are still a lot of concerns. the refugees really don't believe that unless turkey really starts cracking down, invests heavily in more naval vessels in the area and coast guard vessels that the human smuggling rings will stop anytime soon. >> thank you for that update. >>> america's top military commander in europe saying that russia is creating that refugee crisis to keep bashar al assad in power. in testimony before the armed services committee in the house, the general accused moscow of using the crisis to manipulate western nations. >> despite public pronounces to the contrary, russia has done little to counter daish, but a great deal to bolster the assad regime and its allies. together, russia and the assad regime are deliberately weaponizing migration from syria in an attempt to overwhelm european structures and break

we support international organizations such as unhcr, ic rc, ngos by the dozens in supporting refugees both inside syria -- that's not refugees, that's internally displaced persons inside syria and refugees in the countries around it. our focus in the past few months has been at looking at how we can extend that support so we have better education programs for all the children there and we've been working with the countries that have taken the refugees to try to expand employment benefits for refugees. the yubtds states is the largest resettler of refugees in the world. since our program started in 1980, we brought in 3 million refugees in the united states. we have a consistent and measured program. the last three years we brought in 70,000 a year. that's more than all other countries put together. refugees resettle through unhch system. this year we plan to bring in 85,000, and next year we're looking to go up to 100. of that, syrians will be at least 10,000 this year and more next year. so we feel that we've got our programs started and that we're -- the syrian program started and w

that's a 60% increase from 37.5 million displaced people recorded by unhcr a decade ago. over 50% of the refugee population is now made up of children below 18 years of age. marking the highest child refugee figure in more than 10 years. in 2014, over 34,000 asylum applications were submitted by unaccompanied or separated children across 82 countries. that's the highest count on record since the agency began collecting this data in 2006. the war in syria and the rise of the islamic state have been the driving factors behind the unprecedented surge in global displacement. approximately 7.6 million people have been internally displaced within syria alone. and more than four million refugees have fled the country since the start of the conflict in 2011. the stark increase in global force displacement coupled with devastating terrorist attacks in paris, san bernardino, beirut, istanbul and ankara in turkey, and just yesterday, brussels, belgium, have led to ongoing policy debates in the u.s. over how best to prevent terrorists from infiltrating our legitimate immigration proc

displaced persons and asylum seekers. 37.5 a 60% increase from million displaced people recorded by unhcr a decade ago. over 50% of the refugee population is now made up of children below 18 years of age. marking the highest child refugee figure in more than 10 years. in 2014, over 34,000 asylum applications were submitted by unaccompanied or separated children across 82 countries. that's the highest count on record since the agency began collecting this data in 2006. the war in syria and the rise of the islamic state have been the driving factors behind the unprecedented surge in global displacement. approximately 7.6 million people have been internally displaced within syria alone. and more than four million refugees have fled the country since the start of the conflict in 2011. the stark increase in global force displacement coupled with devastating terrorist attacks in paris, san bernardino, beirut, istanbul and ankara in turkey, and just yesterday, brussels, belgium, have led to ongoing policy debates in the u.s. over how best to prevent terrorists from infiltrating our legitimate im