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Added on the 20/09/2016 13:25:06 - Copyright : Reuters EN
People sift through ash hoping to find what little is left after a huge fire ravaged Greece's main migrant camp in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Over 12,000 men, women and children were forced to flee from the makeshift camp in Moria just hours after the migration ministry said that 35 people had tested positive at the camp. IMAGES
Greece's largest migrant camp was partly evacuated after a major blaze broke out at the overcrowded and unsanitary home to nearly 13,000 asylum seekers. Nearly the entire Moria camp on the island of Lesbos was on fire, including in an olive grove outside the walls of the main compound where many asylum seekers sleep in tents. IMAGES
At his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis speaks about his emotional encounter with refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos, the frontline of Europe's migrant crisis. Subtitled Rough Cut (no reporter narration)
EU ministers visit a migrant camp in Greece and say they are confident the EU-Turkey deal will improve soon. Julie Noce reports.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).