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Theresa May’s UN message on refugees
Like her predecessor, Mrs May will emphasise that the solutions lay in the regions where the refugee crises are at their worst.
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President Trump’s executive order closing the nation’s borders to refugees was put into immediate effect last night. Refugees who were mid air when the order was signed were stopped and detained at US airports – which has already prompted legal challenges. Our International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reports from Washington tonight on the fallout.
Like her predecessor, Mrs May will emphasise that the solutions lay in the regions where the refugee crises are at their worst.
World leaders are gathering at the United Nations General Assembly in New York to discuss the refugee crisis. Our Political Editor Gary Gibbon travelled there with the Prime Minister, Theresa May.
Home Office ministers are working on plans to provide sanctuary to children from UNHCR run Syrian refugee camps.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban calls the mass migration of thousands of refugees a “brutal threat” to Europe.
Hungarian authorities are arresting refugees crossing the Serbian-Hungarian border as tough new border control laws are introduced.
Jean-Claude Juncker was heckled by a far right Italian MEP in an Angela Merkel mask as he said that 120,000 refugees had to be relocated from Italy, Greece and Hungary to other European countries
The number of refugees fleeing across the Mediterranean to Europe could reach 400,000 by the end of the year, says the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Facing criticism for erecting a razor-wire fence and forcibly moving people to camps, prime minister Viktor Orban says he is defending Europe’s “Christian identity”.
Refugees, among them those in wheelchairs and on crutches, have lost patience waiting for trains in Hungary have begun a hundred mile march to Austria.
There were scuffles and screams – in the chaos a distraught Syrian man pushed his wife and baby onto the tracks as some kind of desperate protest.
Up to 50 refugees are found dead in a parked lorry in eastern Austria. On the scene Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum says there’s a “terrible” stench of death.
Thousands of migrants broke through a police line in Macedonia as the government struggles to control the border. Many are still stranded in “dangerous” conditions.
The German army and scores of volunteers are helping to build homes for the mass flux of migrants that have descended to the country in the last few months.
The number of refugees fleeing Syria has topped 4 million, according to the UN refugee agency, in what has been described as the world’s biggest refugee crisis.