Of the ancient games. The gentleman speaking at the moment, the president of the Olympic Committee in greece, he is also a member of the International Committee. You can see the ancient remains of the 2600 year old temple, where this is taking place. What will happen is the flame will be lit and then it will be handed over to the paris 2024 olympic team. The relay will stretch from the acropolis to the south pacific. As you can see, there are hundreds of people at the ceremony and it is the First Time Since the covid 19 pandemic when of course there were toned down events for the tokyo olympics, that spectators are able to attend the Torch Relay Events and this flame Lighting Ceremony. We are expecting that flame to be lit in the next ten to 15 minutes. We will come back to that as we see it. We will have full coverage of that line from olympia as the flame is lit to head towards the paris 2024 olympics, which, of course, start injuly of this year. We start this hour with the latest de
Wage, but in an inflationary economy people think its hardly enough our top story. Police chiefs from greece as well as several balkans countries are meeting to discuss the refugee crisis. Theyre talking about mondays scenes of chaos along the greece and macedonia border. Our correspondent reports now where thousands are stuck and tensions rising because theyre not allowed in. Reporter impatient and exhausted, they first marched over the railway gate along the border. Demanding once again to be let through. But soon things got out of control. Some refugees managed to tear down part of the fence. Others hurled stones at macedonian forces on the other side of the fence. They responded with tear gas. But rumour has spread around the camp that the border had opened. Hundreds of refugees ran towards the fence. This woman and her children were sitting around their ten when the rumour reached them translation we ran towards the gate, people shouting, open the borders. I couldnt see further up
The making is finally about to outlaw Domestic Violence. Critics say it doesnt go far enough. Police chiefs from greeps and several balkan states are meeting to discuss the ongoing refugee crisis. They will be talking about mondays chaotic scenes on the macedoniangreece border. Our correspondent reports. Thousands are stuck being theyre not being allowed in reporter impatient and exhausted, they first marched towards the railway gate on the border demanding to be let through. Soon things got out of control. Some refugees managed to tear down part of the fence. Others hurled stones at the forces on the other side of the fence. They responded with tear gas. Rumour has spread around the camp that the border had opened. Hundreds of refugees ran towards the fence. This woman and her children were sitting around their tent when the rumour reached them. We ran towards the gates. I couldnt see further up, but then they fired tear gas. I fell while running away. This was wrong. We demand our ri
Most important days in the u. S. Election and look at why super tuesday is crucial for candidates. Spy tapes and allegations of corruption and a case to talk about a case today is now before the court. Police chiefs from greece and several balkin states are meeting in about an hour from now to discuss the refugee crisis and mainly talking about mondays scenes of chaos with macedonia where the police fired tear gas at refugees and my grants and thousands are stuck there because of border restrictions and we report now through there. Reporter impatient and exhausted and first marched over the rail way gate along the water demanding once again to be let through. But soon things got out of control. Some refugees managed to tear down part of the fence. Others hurled stones at macedonia forces on the other side of the fence. They responded with tear gas. But rumor had spread around the camp that the border had opened, hundreds of refugees ran towards the fence. She and her children were sitt
Democratic Candidates Plus i aadrian brian in china. China about to outlaw Domestic Violence. Critics say it doesnt go far enough. Europes refugee crisis continues to deepen according to the u. N. Refugee agency, over 130,000 people across the medteranean so far this year far exceeding the total for the first half of last year. Its causing tension across the continuenet. Police chiefs from greece and balkan states are meet can to talk about what happened yesterday. We carried this live for you. Scenes of chaos on the border between greece and macedonia where macedonian forces fired tear gas. Thousands are stuck there because of the border restrictions. Lets take you to northern france on the outskirts of the channel port city of calas. Refugees evicted from their camps for day 2. Police dismantling parts of the camp known of course as the jingle. Home to thousands hoping to reach the u. K. We report from rome where almost 100 Syrian Refugees arrived safely part of a humanitarian pilot