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Added on the 11/03/2016 15:36:35 - Copyright : AFP EN
Relentless rain turns despair into suffering for thousands of migrants who refuse to leave, despite the Greek-Macedonia border being closed for nearly a week. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
About 50.000 people massed in the streets of northern Greece's biggest city Thessaloniki on Sunday in a protest over the Macedonia name dispute between Athens and Skopje, police said. IMAGES
Macedonian police fire tear gas at migrants who were trying to pull down barbed wire from the border fence at the Idomeni in protest. Thousands of migrants have found themselves stranded in squalid conditions at the border between Macedonia and Greece after Macedonia and other Balkan states denied them passage to Germany and other destinations in northern Europe. IMAGES
Migrants defy the rain to stage a protest on Greece's border with Macedonia, chanting 'Merkel' as they pin their hopes on the German chancellor to help open borders and restore the so-called 'Balkan corridor". Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Exhuasted migrants brave another day at the Greece-Macedonia border as guards allow only a trickle to pass, while aid agencies say aid is running out. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Exhuasted migrants brave another day at the Greece-Macedonia border as guards allow only a trickle to pass, while aid agencies say aid is running out. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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