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Migrants or refugees: what’s the right word?
After I reported on scenes of desperation at the Greece/Macedonia border, there was nearly as much outrage about the use of language as the plight of the people.
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Refugees climbing on top of trains at Calais on Tuesday night causes major travel disruption, leaving Eurostar passengers stranded.
Migrants stage protests in Budapest as authorities refuse to let them board trains towards Germany.
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.
As the German and French leaders meet tonight, thousands of refugees and a handful of migrants are travelling through Greece, Macedonia and Serbia hoping to make it to northern Europe. Lindsey Hilsum, has been on a train with some of the refugees.
After I reported on scenes of desperation at the Greece/Macedonia border, there was nearly as much outrage about the use of language as the plight of the people.
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.
A new UN report says one in every 122 people is either a refugee or seeking asylum. It says if this number of people were a country, it would be the world’s 24th biggest.
“Islamic State is good,” said 15 year old Mohammed. “The girls don’t like it because they have to cover up but that’s right in Islam.”
Channel 4 News uncovers a network of underground bloggers and activists operating across Europe, who are helping thousands of Syrian refugees desperate for asylum.
The people smugglers in Turkey are Syrians and they tell us they’re doing their compatriots a favour. Here, in Mersin Otogar, we meet a smuggler and a Syrian family desperate to reach Europe.
The United Nations Refugee Agency says almost 140,000 people – mainly Kurds – have crossed the border from Syria into Turkey since Friday.
More than 130,000 Syrian Kurd refugees have crossed into Turkey from the north of Syria in the last three days as they flee Islamic State militants.
The number of refugees from the Syrian civil war rises above 3 million, the United Nations refugee agency says.
I’ve been down to the St Joseph Church in Irbil, where Christians from Mosul and Qaraqosh are seeking sanctuary. They told us how the mere sound of the Islamic State made them flee their homes.