They are trapped between the waters as the standoff between the moon and turkey plays out well just a few miles from the turkish mainland the greek island of lesbos is bearing the brunt of arrivals in the e. U. At the morea refugee camp more than 20000 people are crammed into a space built for 3000 locals are seeing after having been at the front lines since europes migrant crisis erupted back in 2015 while the friction between them and the Asylum Seekers has brought the island to a breaking point. Europes overcrowded waiting room everyone who is stranded here wants to get out as quickly as possible many of them children. Hill. Air and now live in more in me and my family. Is that theyre here its very very. So down here is 12 she arrived a few months ago with her family from afghanistan their lives havent changed for the better to the contrary during winter the camp regularly becomes a mud pit as its called people need firewood many here are from iraq syria or afghanistan having fled c
And events are closed or canceled. And the ink is barely dry on the newly signed u. S. Peace treaty with the Afghan Taliban but the cracks are already beginning to appear in the deal we take a look at how ordinary afghans see the troops. American tilton thanks for joining us greek police have deployed tear gas against hundreds of migrants trying to force their way across the border from turkey thousands more are on their way after ancora said it would let migrants cross into the e. U. Turkey has been calling for more support and tackling the migrant crisis amid syrias civil war. No mans land between greece and turkey greek Police Deployed water cannon to drop back people trying to cross the border into the e. U. Athens says it has blocked around 10000 migrants who are trying to leave turkey after president richard said his country had opened the gates to europe. The greek all sources have sent an automated text message to mobile phones along the border areas of greece better urging peo
Statistics i spent 5 years covering china and i was always very skeptical of figures you got from the government especially concerning you know its g. D. P. And i think you have to attach the same Health Warning if you like to these figures as well but if they are true if then it does offer a little crumb of comfort even though people are still dying and people are still becoming infected there were 143 deaths reported on friday thats up 27 from the day before but this is a significant thing the rate of infections does appear to be much lower half what they were on thursday as you say more than 405100 deaths overall but a sign of a very small sign i think that perhaps you know the infection rate is starting to come down its certainly coming down outside of who by the province Officials Say theres been a real significant drop in the rate of affection infections in the rest of china the United States has been offering help to china but china has so far declined those offers meanwhile in
Wisconsin, the house is coming in. Thank you so much. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. January 16, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Gracious and merciful god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. The house prepares to recess for a week of constituent visitation and in home districts. As the nation anticipates the Martin Luther king long weekend. As we remember the heroic struggle of the civil rights movement, the badges and incidents of slavery from continued through policies still operative today, though recently being addressed through efforts at criminal Justice Reform and sentencing reform. The pains of racism,
New kill with more on these people that were finally able to get off this hour roaming cruise ship way. Yes certainly an air of celebration as the 1st of those passengers were able to disembark up to spending 14 days in that ship the westerdam now they will be that now taken to the airport boarding charter flights paid for by the Holland America line the owner of the ship and then flown back to their home countries its going to be a very slow process with so many people on board the process of issuing cambodian visas so they can disembark is still going on and again the charter flights have to be organized as well so the company that owns the ship is saying that that process could take 2 or 3 days said the frustration for many passengers on board will still continue but as they came off the ship they were greeted by the cambodian Prime Minister who spoke to those gathered on the port but also those gathered on the ship on the decks and on the balconies of their cabins and he was greete