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Capturing the many talents of children living in the slums. mumbai, india is a beautiful city. take a closer and deeper look and what youll discover is the painful reality of poverty. 54% of mumbai is made up of slums. more than a million children who grow up here can only dream of where will they find their next meal. the movie "slum dog millionaire" brought the plight of children living in slums. bobby is doing the same by using his music project "slum stars." first project to invite children ...

The plight of the people, ashamed. how the government has treated them. so they have come out and set up the water stations on their own. its very haphazard. you have some of the smaller nonprofit such as migration aid who has been handing out things like dates as well. >> arwa damon on a highway with thousands of people trying to walk to a better life. thank you, arwa. david, my god, this is medieval. there are thousands of people trying to walk across europe. this cant be a solution. this just...

Sympathetic and trying to help these hordes and hordes of desperate people. >> there are and it was quite heartening to see because weve been here for about the last ten days or so and one has to say that this government is very hostile towards the plight of these people. the security forces are fairly aggressive and abrupt with them. people are coming out and giving them dates, one woman was in tears handing out food to the children saying "im sorry, im so sorry for my prime minister." people w...

Saying im so sorry for my prime minister. im so sorry. ashamed she was saying of the way that the government here is handling these peoples plight, especially after everything they have been through. organizers, some of the key refugee organizers in all of this telling us that the numbers are around 2,500, if not 3,000. there most certainly are just waves and waves of people making this very long journey. it is, yes, very difficult for the children. and parent know when they embark on this trek ...

Some changes made so these people can be moved on and can go to more welcoming countries like germany, for instance. we saw that report from fred pleitgen, there. so this is the plight for these people. its terrible. >> we heard some of the reporters saying for these people they dont feel welcome. what strikes me as we look at this child, many of the migrants are children and the refugees, so many people brought to europe with their parents fleeing such chaos. there is an image of a young syrian...

The boys 5-year-old brother also capsized. ed the plight of refugees in hungary. this is budapest. thousands scaping war and poverty. the police taking many of them to registration centers and refugee camps and they do not want to go there. germany said well take up to a million refugees. well see how many make it there. martha: a lot of discussion about that. in the meantime as we have been saying. donald trump is set to face off with the republican party. how should the rnc handle if the quest...

Police presence throughout all of this. its really hard, christine, for the parents who try to save their children from the war zones that are in syria and iraq and also afghanistan. have you these different groups of migrants and refuges who all kind of collect together. now it seems like the afghans also wanting to bring attention to their plight because they also are living in a war zone. but as i was saying, in all of this, christine, its been so hard for the parents, because they try to sav...

Be better than the one they left behind. michaela, those who can prove they are from iraq or syria are finally, today, being allowed to board trains on ward to austria and germany. something they are scrambling to do at this stage, afraid that the opportunity will go away if they take too long. that is providing little respite for other nationalities who continue to be stuck here in these wretched conditions. >> all right, arwa. terrible situation there. we are watching the plight of those peopl...

Solution to this widening migrant crisis. and the pope is asking for prayers for migrants and refugees during an address in st. peters square sunday, pope francis called for greater cooperation in helping the plight of migrants traveling across europe. >> tragedies like the death of 71 migrants in austria offend the entire human family. a saudi-led air strike on a water bottling factory killed 34 people and left dozens injured. a spokesman said that houthi rebels were using the factory to bu...

The plight of migrants traveling across europe. during an an address on sunday, pope francis asked for prayers for migrants and refugees. and to other stories we are following, yemens defense ministry said a saudi-led air strike on a water bottling factory killed 34 people and left dozens injured. houthi rebels were using the factory to build explosive devices. the saudis say they want to restore the yemeni government, a key u.s. ally against al qaeda. isis has destroyed a second temple in...