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In Europe,rainy skies have brought just one more hardship to thousands of refugees trying to build their way across the Balkans and into Western Europe.
On Friday, Hungary's announcement that it plans to shut its border has produced unusual bottlenecks on the Serbian and Croatian borders. Now, or in Serbia,the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says some 10000 refugees are facing shortages of aid and shelter."We are freezing. I feel animals are better than us," one desperate woman told the BBC from the border between Slovenia and Croatia. "Nobody cares. Nobody's government cares. They are just laughing at us, and saying we can't,we are just waiting orders. Which orders? We are human here."So far this year, at least 794000 people have applied for asylum in European countries. By the discontinuance of the year, and Germany,Austria, Hungary, or Sweden,the Netherlands, and Finland expect to receive a total of 1.3 million asylum applications. Add to that another 4.7 million asylum seekers expected to arrive in Turkey, or Lebanon,and Jordan by December, and you start to glean a picture of the scale of this crisis. Babar Baloch, or a UNHCR spokesman in Bratislava,Slovakia, discusses the challenges ahead.
What you'll learn from this segment:How many people are stuck due to the bottlenecks.
How the changing weather is effecting the refugee crisis.
Whether there are any policy solutions on the horizon.
Source: wnyc.org