It attacked. Finding the next einstein the european refugee crisis has claimed more lives today. Five people including a baby have drowned as their boat capsized whilst they were trying to make the dangerous crossing from turkey to greece. This latest tragedy and so many others will be on the mind of European Union interior ministers for meeting in brussels. Topping the agenda the plans to return refugees and migrants enmass from europe to turkey and the decision by some European Countries to close their borders to refugees which has created the situation that you can see taking place here on real time on the border between greece and macedonia. There the conditions have been described as deplorable. Live now to that Border Crossing and my colleague who is at idomeni. Reporter well it is a very, very difficult condition. Ive been saying that on a daily basis. I think now people are really on their last legs. Some people say hello to you and explode in tears. They cant take it any more.
Trying to get in zcheznia trying to find the next einstein reporter i will be here with all the days sports. Including the quarter final for the Champion League as chelsea crash out of the tournament. Top stories so far today. The european refugee crisis has claimed more lives. Five people including a baby have drowned as their boat capsized whilst they were trying to make the dangerous crossing from turkey to greece. This latest tragedy as with so many others will be on the mind of European Union interior ministers who are meeting in brussels. Topping the agenda the proposal to return refugees en masse to turkey. Also to close borders to refugees which has created the situation here right now today. Thousands of people stuck on the greek Macedonian Border where conditions have been described as deplorable. Take you live to our correspondent who is on that border crossing. Reporter yes. Conditions are absolutely squalid and deplorable here. Behind me there are empty spots that you say
Holds. The migration commissioner is warning that greece could receive another 100,000 refugees by the end of the month. There are calls to call a state of emergency near the idomeni crossing. Within the e. U. There is still no agreement on how to handle the crisis. Austria is asking germany to limit the number of refugees taken in at around 400,000 per year. Angela merkel has criticized greece saying it should have been prepared to host 50,000 people in an e. U. Agreement in october. Thanks for being with us. First of all, tell us what the conditions are. Many people are still trapped on that border and a lot of blame going around now for this crisis. Reporter certainly the conditions are very difficult. People are trying to adopt as best as they can, but they also riddled with worry, i would say. The system for crossing into macedonia keeps on changing on a daily basis. Lately it has been based on the date of arrival in greece, but it is a very, very slow system and then the restrict
Reporter theres an amassive game happening now and i will have the latest for you. Also ahead Novak Djokovic wins his match in the australian opeopen we begin with developments in syria where it is estimated at least 100 civilians have been killed in the Eastern Region in the past two days. The u. K. Based organization for human rights say at least 63 people were killed on saturday alone. It is said russian air strikes are to blame. It is understood theyve helped regain area in lak. The diplomatic front a question mark hung over the meeting on monday. The first on the strikes which gerald tan. Reporter they gather to search for bodies to cyst through their belongings and whats left of their homes. Villagers here in the countryside say air strikes on saturday killed relatives and friends just organise citizens. This man could only muster a prayer calming on god to help his calling on god to help his people. Russian groups say russian jets are responsible for the strikes and that this is
From being flattened. We begin with syria where at least 30 people have been killed in suspected russian air strikes. The syrian observetri for human rights say it hit a bus station. It reports that the jets were targeting areas controlled by Islamic State in iraq and the levant of the meanwhile world powers are scheduled to discuss the conflict in geneva on monday and it is yet to be agreed which syrian groups will attend. John kerry says he is confident the talks will go ahead. Kerry has been meeting the king of saudi arabia in riyadh. The u. S. And its allies are trying to come up way list of opposition groups to join the negotiations one thing we did today which i think is important is we set up a clarity for how to proceed forward in the initial steps of the negotiations on syria. We are confident that with Good Initiative in the next day or so those talks can get going and that the u. N. Representative special envoy will be convening people in an appropriate manner for the proxim