Absolutely. We are about 20 minutes drive from the Border Crossing to macedonia. This area here became a waiting point. I will have the cameraman try to explain the situation. There is over 20 buses here waiting. Each bus has over 50 people, so it can make the math over 1000 people are here over the last 48 hours. There are only three toilets, so they are very unhygienic, very dirty. I saw some women go into the bushes to use it as a toilet. If you will. It is very cold. It is about 2 degrees celsius. Before doing this live shot a syrian woman came to me and she was telling me she had no money to eat for the last few days. Another women said she only had a sandwich and she was saving it for her young child. People are cold, people have no money. They have saved money to give to the smugglers to reach this point and they fear going beyond this area. They will have no money to face any hardship tell me more about the children that youre seeing there. Youve just explained to me that they are putting children before them, as you would expect, but how many children are you seeing there . What i saw is dozens of children. I saw entire families, what struck me for the last 24 hours is the fact of the diversity of people, their different age groups, very old women, very old men. I saw some of them were tired, were some of them were sick and some of them babies, even few months old, so you can tell how desperate people are. Now, the reason why all of them are gathered here is for the basic simple fact is that the authorities, the police, the greek police as well as the, th they. Hopely they will be able to leave this position within a few hours or the following day we just dont know. Thank you for that. Still ahead on al jazeera, lowtech in a high tech world. A telegram in china. The stuffing out of machine made pinatas, a mexican tradition is under threat. The top stories here. A deal with the Syrian Government could see some i. S. I. L. Fighters and their families given safe passage after a refugee camp in damascus. Deals are being finalised. It will be easier to deliver aid to people trapped in that area. Afghan Security Officials have said people have been killed. The army has been trying to push the armed group. It has spread to other pardons of helmand. Thousands of refugees continue to reach europe via sea every day despite controls. Pope francis has delivered his annual christmas address at the vatican urging people to reject consumerism. Despite almost daily attacks between israelis and palestinians. A report on how people with celebrating christmas and the world reporter from the epicenter the pope leads the people through a mass. Away from the grand vatican, people around the are celebrating the world are setting christmas as well. Christmas presents were delivered to 300 children in damascus who lost their parents in the war. Hundreds of christians gathered to light a year hoping the new year will bring and end to the conflict. Fireworks will illuminate the river in baghdad every night of the week. An estimated 200,000 christians have been displaced. Many of them live in camps around baghdad. In the Central African republic, they are struggling in a climate of instability fighting between muslims and christians over the past three years have left the country dealing with social and economic challenges. Many government workers havent been paid their salaries. But that hasnt affected the christmas spirit. Translation in fact, the town is lively. There is a lot of traffic which means the it is hard. Reporter people in france are being doesed to remain voyage lint after they go through their celebrations. Security is tight in the Chinese Capital too after the british and u. S. Government issued a warning after possible threats to westerners on or around the christmas period. That didnt stop hundreds of catholics from attending Christmas Eve mass in this communist country. In bethlehem thousands of worshippers led a mass. In the very spot where it is believed jesus christ was baorn voting in the Central African republic has been delayed for a fifth time now. The election was scheduled for this sundays but have been post ponds to january 30. Doctors in south africa have developed a breast scanning machine which ised to save time and money. A report from cape town. Reporter this is the latest innovation in Breast Cancer technology being tested. Usually the disease is diagnosed is by mam agram. What happens is when they have particularly denies breast tissue, that can mask the cancer. Reporter this is able to xray the best and take an you will extra sound at the same time. This is the worlds first system that incorporates both these technologies into a single platform. So the idea would be that you can catch that Breast Cancer early in one go rather than having to ask the woman to come back repeatedly for more studies in the future reporter when nora who is also an mam mographer when she found out a mass in her dead which she found to be benign, she later helped to be involved in the testing it is goodli to see that theres progress being made especially when you think of the time that you need to have the maam he gram mam mogram and then have an um tray sound afterwards. Reporter Development Began six years ago and it has cost 3 million dollars. Studies by doctors around the world suggest that 5,000 tested with an mam mogram xray have a total detected. That rises to 2 in 1. The technology will provide women with access to better quality cancer testing without having to undergo two separate tests. Both dwepers and the government say the machine can be used to reach a large number of people. We would like to see greater manufacturing capability inside africa and developing this machine in our country and then being able to market it to europe. We hope eventually to the u. S. And throughout the african continent and through this development make a difference to the Health Status of women. Reporter women will save time and money, and Developers Say the greater benefit will be the quicker detention of cancer to save lives a housing crisis in the u. S. Is forcing thousands of people to take to the road. For some mobile living comes with a lack of security and few legal rights, but others are embracing the choice as discovered in arizona. Reporter van dwellers con ghi gate here con angry gate here congregate here. This man is known as the guru of van dwelling. He says there was a particular surge after the 2008 financial crash my website was inundated with people who were losing their jobs, losing their homes, loving their apartments and literally no choice but to move from apartments into advance. Reporter these vans are able for mobility and discite parking i hear from a lot of people who have retired on social security, especially women, a lot of women who have just retired which ask 5 to 800 a month and you cant rent an apartment and live on that. Reporter many embracelet independence and freedom of van dwelling. A brain injury meant this woman had to retire earlier than expected. Waking up and seeing everything i own and knowing everything is very comfort ago for me and works for me. Reporter Adam Christianson was in advertising. In the crash many of his clients disappeared, his Retirement Savings depleted. Here is the career going this way and im going this way. Op what is going to happen here reporter he sold his house and travels up to 50,000 kilometres a year between the ocean, mountains and desert sleeping in his van. I dont worry about lots of things i used to worry about. The only concern now is some day i will get too old to do this. Reporter then what . Then i might be moving in with family members. Reporter at a nearby church in court side former biker turned preacher estimates that a third of those accepting free meals are retire eaus living in their advance. You know, i dont know of that many that would want to go back to a house, but almost every one of them would say if you talk to them long enough for a while, they dont want to die alone. Reporter thats not a concern of bob wells my security is the 365 magnum, and im just going to end my life. If i cant live the quality of life that i choose, then im going to end my Life Reporter its a model of old age that combines necessity and choice security has been stepped up in chinas capital after the u. S. And other governments have been warned of threats against their citizens. Beijing has issued a yellow alert in shopping and entertainment areas. Police are checking rubbish bins and public areas every 30 minutes. The telegram revolutionized the way the world communicated. With the advent with new technology it became obsolete in many countries. A report on a notable exception reporter in woman is about to do something very few people of her generation will do. Sends a telegram to her parents. The city of shanghai was one of the first linked to the telegraph system and will likely be among the last to hold on to it. Translation it is nostalgic to my parents. Theyre from a time when people used to write letters. So this will be like a souvenir for them to keep. Reporter it begins first by faction sent to another office where it will be transmitted. This is low tech in a high tech world. The telegrams are sent over a network that uses machinery that is about as sophisticated as it will ever will come. A museum to the telegraph charts the service from its more primitive positions. Including the code books that gave the characters individual numbers so they could be transmitted. A service that peaked at 44 million telegrams per year in 1988 has been in steep decline ever since. Translation traditionally people would still use telegrams for congratulations or condolences, but even those dues uses are dropping off. Reporter hardly surprising in a country that now has hundreds of millions of users signed up to one of the many messaging apps available on their smart phones. This lady and her parents included. The message has gone in a couple of moments, but the telegram itself will take a week. With such a relatively long wait in the age of a smart phone, it will probably take more than nostalgia to save in mexico, the pinyada has been a tradition in christmas. Reporter if youre a pinyata artisan this is the season of achy hands and ripped nails. Pride in knowing his creations are copied, is what has kept him doing this for 40 years. Translation i like the colours of the pinyatas, you dont need a lot of money to make them and this has given jobs to me and my family reporter he is also adentist. He admits the trade isnt quite as lucrative as it used to be because now there is more competition. Christmas is the busiest time of year. He and his family members will make four to 5,000 in a month and charge about 2 for these stars. They represent the christmas star. In the bible the star revealed the birth of jesus to the Three Wise Men and led them to bethlehem. This is called the kilometer of the pinyatas. They say machines are changing what was once a strictly hand craft. Machines are cutting the materials and making the bodies. Translation i fell upset because this tradition is coming to an end. Our parents taught us there for two or three generations joochlt this woman is with the council for culture and arts says the tradition will endure. She says theyre not only firmly rooted in catholicism, but theyre in mexico and an extension of people translation at this time of the year people are looking for the traditional ones. Although this business is changing, the artists are adapting. Thats the value we are promote possessing reporter for kids they will remain a game that comes with a prize. Translation i like them because i can hit them and eat the candy. Reporter not so for thims. It is pay nuts, orange ntas and guavas that come tom about belling come tumbling out of these for updates throughout the day on the days news, just take a look on our website. Easy to find. Its al jazeera. Com i mean every arab needs an exit strategy nowadays. 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