latest now it did abuse you johann she joins us now from the turkish side of the border in days here yulia can you fill us in what's the situation at the border where you are this morning. well the situation here appears to remain that tons now as journalists we have. to get anywhere near the border or this main border crossing here between turkey and greece anymore police stopping us right here about 2 kilometers away but a little earlier we managed to get a little closer with our car because we were get before we were again stopped by the here and we managed to talk to some migrants and refugees who told us that tear gas fired again we could also smell the tear gas and it's right now not entirely clear if this was just being fired from the greek side towards the there are also reports that tear gas have been fired from the turkish side it's not entirely clear what role turkish military there is playing there are some reports saying that or suggesting that of the soldiers are kind of encouraging the refugees or migrants maybe to use violence in order to dymov passage to europe the people we t

the very latest now from the turkish greek border area with good of you is your hanukkah danger yulia can you tell us where you are right now and what's the situation at the border. i'm about 2 kilometers away from one of the main border crossings here between tuckey and greece which is called. i'm on the turkish side but turkish authorities are not letting us journalists anywhere near the border anymore so basically they're preventing us from independently reporting on the situation of migrants and refugees then so i can tell you how many people are still waiting that to cross into greece into the european union asked him it's put this figure at somewhere between 10000 to up 220000 people i also can tell you about the conditions for these people i can only assume they must be terrible because it's been 7 days since many of them have come here they have slept outside in the open with nothing more than a few a blankets yesterday violent clashes erupted here at the border so the security situation overall also appears to be very tense that. you know you know the european is accusing turkey.

for more on the story and we can speak to d.w. correspondent yulia han she fall she joins us now live from istanbul hi julie oh good to see you this crisis really has escalated tensions between greece and turkey we've seen the greek government accused turkey of using migrants as pawns to exert diplomatic pressure how is responding to that. well turkish officials have rejected such criticism that's hardly surprising one advisor to president said criticizing turkey's refugee policy i quote him here was shameful and disingenuous at the same time. re news surats prison edwin for example earlier today said that millions of migrants and refugees would be heading towards the european union's a border and from my understanding this is intended to ramp up pressure on european governments to act over the situation in syria is it lift to share the burden when it comes to the refugees and migrants knows how afraid european governments berlin paris athens are all of another major refugee influx what gets lost in all of this are the facts and that makes reporting

pushing back a boat filled with migrants so i don't know if you can see this but it's a pretty heavy handed way of the going about this yulia how has it come to this. oh yes these pictures are deeply disturbing turkish authorities have shared the pictures with journalists they claim they with filmed of a boardroom at the turkish coast which is very close to the greek island of kos this morning now. a word of caution here because this footage is coming from the turkish authorities and they clearly have a political interest right now sharing such videos but then again greek border guards the coast guard they clearly have orders of absolutely not tolerating any illegal crossings they have fired tear gas at people at one border crossing where i've just been in the past days if used water cannon and i also got some information today that i think is worrying it's coming from local producers in the area from fellow journalists and they said some refugees on a boat have reached out to them and these refugees said that they were intercepted stopped by the greeks coastguard guards then jumped into their boat took off the engine of th

our correspondent yulia hina is following the story for us on the turkish side of the border with greece. can you bring us up to date on what's happening where you are how the migrants coping with the situation. well it's been 5 days since turkey gave green light to refugees and migrants to leave for the european union and since then thousands have gathered here along the greek a border it's a very long border 200 kilometers long i'm in the tucker village of doran right now at the river that's the river running along the border and many people are waiting here or they are camping here they're hoping they're still hoping to somehow make it and crawl to the other side you can see the trees that behind me that greece people have set up a makeshift shelter. very many families with children the children are trying to play with whatever they can find but people also tell me it's quite tough for them especially during the nights when it's cold they say they don't have enough to eat not enough to drink even though we saw some volunteers distributing bread a little yeah and some people many people as