Inside Afghanistan’s ‘appalling’ refugee camps
It has come to this. A woman sits in the mud and puddles. The snow falls relentlessly. It is minus 6 degrees, even at 11 in the morning. But sit here she must.
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The UN envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, tells Channel 4 News it is “desperately urgent” parties work together to end the war but admits he has not spoken directly to President Assad in three months.
Thousands of Syrians fled to Jordan’s Zataari refugee camp to escape violence at home. But now women and children live in fear of kidnap, rape and sham marriages in the camp meant to keep them safe.
The prime minister’s wife, Samantha Cameron expressed her shock and dismay at the stories Syrian refugees told her while she visited them in Lebanon.
It has come to this. A woman sits in the mud and puddles. The snow falls relentlessly. It is minus 6 degrees, even at 11 in the morning. But sit here she must.
More than a million people are likely to have fled Syria within the next few weeks, exceeding the UN’s “worst-case scenario”, according to Oxfam.
The United Nations has called them ‘one of the most persecuted minorities in the world’ – Burma’s Rohingya people. The stateless, Muslim community live among the majority Buddhists in Rakhine state. Flimsy wooden boats packed with people desperate to flee are now arriving off the coast of Thailand every day. But instead of giving temporary…
The story of Syrian refugee Marwa and her desperate flight to freedom – she spoke to Channel 4 News Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Miller.
Channel 4 News Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Miller witnesses the dramatic late-night escape and rescue of a group of Syrian refugees, fleeing their homeland under fire and crossing into Jordan.
At least 65 people are found dead with their hands bound in a district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, say activist and rebel groups.
As thousands of Syrian refugees cross the Jordanian border fleeing extreme violence and bombing, Jordan’s foreign minister tells Channel 4 News there is a lack of funds to cope with the influx.
Refugees have been pouring over the border from Syria into Jordan in the last 24 hours, and the UNHCR is warning about conditions in the camps holding them after three children died this week.
Heathrow airport cancels 100 flights amid the weather disruption as Channel 4 News weather presenter Liam Dutton warns there is more snow to come.
Three Kurdish women reportedly including a founding member of the PKK militant group were shot dead overnight in Paris in killings that sources say was politically motivated.
At least 25 people have died in an attack by Syrian fighter jets on the Palestinian Yarmouk camp in Damascus, opposition activists say. Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson is in Syria.
Labour leader Ed Miliband admits the party made “mistakes” over immigration and says that too little is being done to integrate people who move to Britain.