Jordan has opened new camps to cope with the increasing number of Syrians fleeing violence in their country. Aid workers said that within the past week some 3,600 Syrians have arrived in Jordan. Jordanian and UN refugee agency officials have expressed concern that humanitarian crisis could be on the way. Dale Gavlak reports.
A caravan camp has now opened in the border town of Ramtha to accommodate Syrian families. All Jordanian officials and UN are working furiously to prepare a camp to hall some 150,000 refugees in the nearby desert hamlet Zaatari in Mafraq. Meanwhile the Italian government has set up a few hospitals in the facility to treat Syrian refugees suffering manner injuries and diseases. Jordan's water minister Mohammed Nazard has also appealed other countries to provide funds for additional water supplies for the Syrian refugees.
A Russian mother has been jailed for 8 years for putting her nine-month-old son on a motorway in the hope that he would get run over. A court in Moscow heard that 24-year-old Elena Osina had tired of looking after her child after her boyfriend moved out. A driver stopped the car and
retrieved
the child up about 10 minutes after he had been abandoned.
A newly
ordained
bishop in China is reported to have been silence by the Communist authorities after resigning from the state-run body that oversees the Chinese Catholic Church. A friend of the man told the BBC the bishop has been forced to go on retreat possibly for months.