Growing demands. Attacks on the freedom of the people who tell the stories journalist are happening around the globe including here at home. We begin with a Staggering Number of refugees world wild, as the list of Armed Conflicts around the world has grown, the people forced to flee their home now exceeds 50 million, the highest since world war. Launching a massive operation to bring aid to half a Million People driven from their homes by Islamic State fighters. Most still living in schools, mosques, churches, and unfinished buildings. So 9 Million People have fled their homes because of syrias brutal civil war. Almost 3 million refugees have escaped to neighboring countries, turkey, jord and not iraq, and south sudan in africa, half a million refugees, some internal, and some in caverns in uganda. And meanwhile, muslims in the Central African republic has led to 30,000 refugees since last march, and many are dying in desperate attempts to find a better life. Im joined from washington
And attacks on the people who tell those stories, journalists are happening around the globe, including here at home. We begin with a Staggering Number of refugees worldwide as the list of Armed Conflicts around the world has grown, the number of people forced to flee their homes now exceeds 50 million. In iraq, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees launched a operation to bring aid to more than half a Million People driven from their homes Islamic State fighters. Most of the displaced are still living in schools, mosques, churches, unfinished buildings and where else. Reporter some 9 Million People have fled their homes because of syrias civil war. In africa, ethnic fighting in south sudan has created well over a half million refugees. Some internal, some in camps. Meanwhile conflict between christians and muslims in the Central African republic has lead to some 430,000 refugees since fighting began last march. And many are dying in desperate attempts to find a better life
People who tell the stories journalist are happening around the globe including here at home. We were talking to a young lady saying she just wanted her voice to get out there. By the thousands, theyre sending their government a message. Ahead of em is a humanitarian crisis where tens of thousands of people are without food, water, shelter. A special one hour look at global attacks on free press. Tonight 9 00 eastern. On Al Jazeera America. The Syrian Civil War continues to convulse the middle east. In the years since it began, over 700,000 people have been killed. And 9 million displaced. And millions have fled to other countries. Even when others drive this from the headlines, Doctors Without Borders continues its heroic work. Volunteers from the nobel prizewinning ngo have delivered 3,000 emergency room consultations, on thousand surgeries, and outpatient visits and babies. In places from hospitals to caves to tents. Doctors without borders call attention to suffering in syria and n
And attacks on the people who tell those stories, journalists are happening around the globe, including here at home. We begin with a Staggering Number of refugees worldwide as the list of Armed Conflicts around the world has grown, the number of people forced to flee their homes now exceeds 50 million. In iraq, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees launched a operation to bring aid to more than half a Million People driven from their homes Islamic State fighters. Most of the displaced are still living in schools, mosques, churches, unfinished buildings and where else. Reporter some 9 Million People have fled their homes because of syrias civil war. In africa, ethnic fighting in south sudan has created well over a half million refugees. Some internal, some in camps. Meanwhile conflict between christians and muslims in the Central African republic has lead to some 430,000 refugees since fighting began last march. And many are dying in desperate attempts to find a better life
Religious freedom is under assault. And attacks on the people who tell those stories, journalists are happening around the globe, including here at home. We begin with a Staggering Number of refugees worldwide as the list of Armed Conflicts around the world has grown, the number of people forced to flee their homes now exceeds 50 million. In iraq, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees launched a operation to bring aid to more than half a Million People driven from their homes Islamic State fighters. Most of the displaced are still living in schools, mosques, churches, unfinished buildings and where else. Reporter some 9 Million People have fled their homes because of syrias civil war. In africa, ethnic fighting in south sudan has created well over a half million refugees. Some internal, some in camps. Meanwhile conflict between christians and muslims in the Central African republic has lead to some 430,000 refugees since fighting began last march. And many are dying in desp