Greece

For days this programme has been reporting on the plight of 39 refugees including sick children and a pregnant woman who were stranded on an islet along the Greek-Turkish border. 

Dozens of Syrian refugees are stranded on a Greek islet beside a highly militarised border crossing – as they attempted to enter the country from Turkey to seek asylum.

As the UN issues a “code red for humanity”, Anja Popp is on the frontline of our warming planet, reporting on floods in Germany and fires in Greece.

Teams of firefighters and residents on the Greek island of Evia are tonight finally beginning to bring the wildfires under control. 

Thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes on the Greek island of Evia as wildfires burn out of control for a sixth day. Firefighters are battling flames on several fronts across the north of Evia, a large island east of Athens. But those who have lost their homes and livelihoods are growing…

Thousands more people forced to flee their homes. Some rescued by boat to escape the advancing flames. Fires are raging across Greece for a fifth night running – fuelled by a combination of fierce winds and record high temperatures that’s created furnace like conditions which the emergency services are struggling to keep under control

Rescue teams are working through the night searching for survivors after a powerful earthquake hit Turkey and Greece, killing at least 14 people.

Earlier this month the largest refugee camp in Europe on the island of Lesbos burnt to the ground – leaving more than 12,000 people homeless.

Fossil fuels might be going out of fashion, but a dispute over the right to drill for natural gas in the eastern Mediterranean has provoked fears that two NATO allies could come to blows.

President Erdogan of Turkey has joined huge crowds in Istanbul, for the first Friday prayers at Hagia Sophia since the 1,500-year-old former church was turned back into a mosque.

A British woman is facing jail in Cyprus after being found guilty of lying about being raped by a group of Israeli men. 

The migration crisis is shaping politics and influencing elections across Europe, and although the number of people seeking a new life on the continent has slowed, people are still coming by the boatload. One of the countries under the biggest strain is Greece. They’ve had over 500 new arrivals on their islands since Friday. We…

60 migrants have been rescued from the sea near Libya by a Spanish aid boat – after they were spotted in a patched up rubber dinghy. But Italy’s hard line interior minister immediately declared he’d refuse permission for them to land there – saying “they can forget about arriving in an Italian port”. A hundred…

It’s across countries such as Greece, Italy, Serbia and Turkey where the cold snap is causing the most suffering.

Thousands of migrants and refugees still living in makeshift camps across Europe are at risk of freezing to death, according to aid agencies.