the settlements clearly illegal under international law now these really all me how this is linked to the killing all of that rubble by human rights activists are praising the ethiopian government for releasing four hundred political prisoners and clued in an opposition leader american teen who was detained two years ago when hundreds were killed in a crackdown on the roma people who were protesting discrimination fire on a bus in kazakhstan has killed fifty two passengers only five people managed to escape the bus was on the main road between a speck of stan and russia place for still investigating what caused that fire rushes to missing dismissing what it calls a groundless accusations by the u.s. president that the kremlin is helping north korea evade international sanctions and an interview john also casts doubt on whether talks with north korea's leader would be useful he said china could do much more about praise restrictions on oil and coal deliveries to the north. france's president omar on is expected to press for

a stronger cross-channel border security when he meets prime minister theresa mann london later on thursday leaders are also expected to discuss ongoing negotiations there's other headlines news continues after people and power computer. the head of the september twenty fourth national election survey showed just a satisfied for the state of their economy this is easily estonia's biggest tech success story the company was bought by microsoft in two thousand and eleven we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. it's become one of the defining themes of our times a tidal wave of humanity in search of sanctuary from war repression or poverty in recent years millions have taken to the road in the hope that safety and

a better life lie elsewhere some manage it some don't but almost every journey is a tale of hardship insurance and great risk over consecutive episodes where telling one such story as seen through the eyes of those who made it. somewhere in south eastern europe and the summer of two thousand and fifteen.

modern day refugees on the march. did out as from concha hoon and west in syria he's filming his journey. he's joined forces with a can patrick miller georgists. out here on the road where anything can happen they've learned to watch each other's backs. i know. that in the in very dumb way of that i can recognize you know. like so many others did out on me lad stories began back in twenty eleven when syrian president bashar assad sent in troops to crush protests against his regime. the uprising that followed triggered the worst refugee crisis since the second world war. since then eleven million syrians half of the country's

population have been displaced. in twenty fifteen alone four million were on the move. the majority sought safety in neighboring countries. a war mosul to canada had. also listened almost even the calm of that like and what is he really other than. an economics student at aleppo university diderot had been arrested during the uprising and thrown in jail on his release he'd fled over the border that he proposed to his fiance. by bugs always a sufi and see the ad and you know. why the choice why such handedness or. a nose the any sort of

a kid will see on the wrong. or. over to. me and suffer. any minute of it by then. so on the twenty second of may twenty fifteen did our joint thousands of others on a long journey searching for sanctuary in europe. if he made it he could meet up with his wife who dorothy going to head by another route. for had been of the. non dissolve the. yet it is a power on all. george us was a literature student from northeastern syria when he ended on a mat in the takesh put of izmir they stablished an immediate bond because i know. there are so it'll. be as i'll inuktitut i said. be lost i'm lost out and

ok a bit out of them were nice of. them a dollar. after days of making discreet inquiries the pending goshi to deal with a people smuggler to take them across the sea. or so not a mic on. the helm of the jamal mess that the lawful. a son named combat boots had led always be comfy to nice when jimmy allowed it out of a. good long. about. mixing. it live. fully and warn. us.

about what's. going on with the. though the waters were calm that fear wasn't misplaced over three thousand seven hundred refugees were to drown in mediterranean crossings that almost a thousand of them and the eastern sea is through which that pass. this time they were lucky within a few hours that overloaded boat came within sight of chaos a greek island. i would like a few of the me. you know me and. i'm glad. that it's not just the last. white house. plan

a few. dozen one measuring. by the early summer of twenty fifteen more than one hundred thousand refugees had arrived by small boats in greece and the government was struggling with the influx of gump. he thought. a kid.

but after three days in the camp they managed to obtain documents which allowed them to move legally around greek territory. but then what happened is the them i had to have. money the balkan route as it was becoming known went from greece through macedonia serbia and hungary eventually leading to austria and germany the most popular target for asylum seekers. by the middle of twenty fifteen the flood of syrian and iraqi refugees into europe meant anti migrant sentiment in some countries was hardening. but germany under chancellor merkel was bucking the trend and its supporters remained. a safe haven back and only providing refugees could reach

it. when the club are now. there are only. michoud wrong. one of my more. with burma action. one of. the how to do more do dips oreo the oldest yes you will how to. listen to. the fia and he doesn't quote me on you as with i have yet. to. be foolin here and the. sun would be. good to hear you scream.

johnny in the. spirit she. should be. listening to the show me. to the human. northern greece some twenty five kilometers from macedonia a small group forge ahead the first hurdle crossing the border. holding in common with as indian a little gun in my thought but has got a few new dark huge mine which while in the top of the gun.

if. they use railway tracks and their g.p.s. phones for a guide to. reaching the border crossing in the dead of night. but . breaks

revealing the beautiful countryside. in the darkness the group had made it into macedonia. now they set off north again towards the serbian buddha. and then she'd been. how many on a bottle. do you want. as the refugee crisis escalated that some politicians in the balkans and the rest of europe was slow to appreciate its sheer scale. tens

of thousands of people were left without cash or assistance left to sleep and hedge rows and open fields. before that only can a few. you know she and her mother develop the convention but the character thought. that goes for you and me. even. or. i'm hot i thought how one. would sort of. handle. it.

i don't. think. it gets. to get through the day to day thank you so much. about. your work. but thank you. thank you so much. but after taking a look around the station did out a surprise to find a group of refugees sleeping rough behind the platforms soon it becomes clear why they are that. back. in just a bit because i think. in. duffy

the sort of the even shorter the. gun instead. of that you see out there always will be. because. it lobbed at our look at our camera. when. they. had the. noise that there was was a loud loud. for

the next two days and nights they are stuck at the station hoping in vain that the macedonian police will allow them to board a train. wreck in. the short and perfect victim she. there's nothing the have it with you that not got you any gun or you didn't. give you. that one.

so. it's. going to be because. this act. was. nothing at all a matter of being a only an understanding. of thought but i would ask that i'm not staying obscure. when i look back on. the other hand. the have. all when you're older

and a part of up on that committee in. my duty obviously someone like me heading. toward the party can the mob clean we can sit down with a gun for the. us dammit. offer to study. why blaine i yannick a fin on him being. thank you. the hostility a hell of a rush has gone too far with all of them are gonna forgot our colonel gary media. who should be doing a. job again. they cycle in the rain and that night.

until after two days on the road they find refuge at a mosque in the north of the country. because we had. the one we had. the. deaf in us come out at them again little in a slum visual. i think. then to their surprise a local man off is the right to a city on the other side of the serbian border. behind them all of. the scared. not obscure or the hoped for and good so hosts you begin to meet you will over toss them a layman. and i'm going she

mused. so. you know if they want to walk you know wanted. as they get close to the buddha the enjoined by hundreds of other refugees. very serious issues it is. going to. be i didn't even. really. know you. but soon enough another problem is exactly what they face in the grounds of a local mosque they try and do a deal with albanian smugglers for the next leg of the trip the prices are extortionate and competition between traffickers is famous as the mood turns nasty

the smugglers start to fight among themselves. i'm. sorry. but i doubt. our. power. in serbia they can at least use public transport but as might fools they realize that's not the end of their troubles.

my. son my. daughter was. going to six hours. i'm not. going to go on doing thank. you. very very much. i. would love. to be more. gina to be more troops i'll be one of a mother to look what are they on the. phone book and don't want that to feel be your loss of a loss that we're going to. put forth of all subsidies and why didn't the command feed bill of one hundred of the. a good enough and doggone.

us out the number who had. been. finding it impossible to find shelter in belgrade mullard and didn't take a train to sabean's northern city of supported south some twenty five kilometers from the hungary in buddha i didn't really think god was not. working but since about it they faced the same problem no one would let them room. finally a taxi driver agrees to take them to a hostel in the suburbs for a price come say you are. now only in the south of us as it is that of an apartment. such as lost and a hotel room my lad could go online and search for another people smuggler.

treat. her. her. that's true critics going. to the things going on yes yes yes yes yes. often conduct every. sort of you there and there's a lot of money. or that she'd know you're about to show us you could use a beer summit that the on off on the if you don't know where it was up tonight is if you was on my feet. well what do you want to do. with the words now. after weeks of exhausting nonstop travelling by sea and

land durai have covered over a thousand kilometers but with hundreds more to go and several boulders still to cross will they ever make it to germany in the next episode i made tussles with smugglers police and even a t.v. crew they come face to face with the whole show realities of life as a refugee. i had a good look the arrival of refugees is debated in european parliament's. but the journey itself is little understood. to syrians document the route that is claimed so many lives such info sanctuary to people in power

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