Erstellt am: 17. 7. 2013 - 14:13 Uhr

"Worst since Rwanda"

Syrian refugee crisis, France terror arrest

With all the turmoil in Turkey and then Egypt over the last couple of months, Syria has somewhat dropped off the news radar. It's become one of those "more of the same" stories where, awful as it is, there is little new to say.

However, Syria has shot to the top of the news agenda again today, with the statement from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, that the refugee crisis is now the worst since Rwanda, 20 years ago.

We've been hearing about the refugee situation throughout the Syrian conflict, but what has escaped attention is how dramatically it has escalated over the last 6 months or so.

MSF/Katharina Resch

Dr Katarina Resch has just returned from a refugee camp in Iraq, where she and her team were handling hundreds of new patients every day. Many of the doctors helping her were refugees themselves.

Katarina Resch is an Austrian doctor with Ärtze ohne Grenzen who has just returned from a refugee camp in Iraq. She told Joanna Bostock how the situation changed during her posting there.

Norwegian terror suspect arrested in France

Black-metal musician, Kristian "Varg" Vikernes has been arrested in France by police suspected he was preparing for a "major terrorist act". Vikernes, who was arrested long with his wife, is believed to have had connections to Anders Behring Brejvik. Knut Magnus Berge reports from Olso about what is known about Vikernes.

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