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Finally saw u.n. aid representatives on site here and they're telling us that they are now going to be building, they hope, in the next few days some sort of a shelter. suffice to say those kinds of small improvements to the conditions that the refugees are being subjected to along the way, they are very, very much needed. >> i am curious because i know you have been talking with a lot of the refugees over the past several weeks and i imagine they're living day by day. what is their end game, where is their end game? >> reporter: well, a lot of them want to end up in western europe and in germ...

In that region. what is the reason for not accepting some of these refugees? >> reporter: it is incredibly hard to decipher. they say officially we're taking x number of refugees from the yemen war, but the u.n. and others say that these gulf arab states which are amongst richest per capita in the world have the capacity for two million refugees if they chose to take them in, remembering of course that the countries immediately bore dering syria have taken in nearing 4 million and are bursting at the seams, that's why they can't take more, which is why the flood comes across to europe at great...

Kimberly, you look at the totality of this tragic situation, what strikes you? >> what strikes me is the number of people moving right now, and i just spoke to a u.n. official who said they've been trying to get their arms around it. they talked to the refugees and asked why this surge. half the surge is coming from syria. syrian refugees already displaced in camps in lebanon and turkey and jordan, and a lot of them just got to the point where, you know, they provide primary school in the u.n. refugee camps, but they don't provide high schooling. these people couldn't work there, kids weren't ...

We should remember that this is a tragedy that's going on now for years, it is going to stay probably for the next coming months and years, and we better face it rationally. >> reporter: so it is also not just a european problem, it is not a german problem, this is a global problem. she was quite critical as many others have been for several days of the gulf arab states, qatar, saudi arabia, arab emirates, kuwait who have taken in zero syrian refugees, despite fueling and paying for the militants in syria, and the united states with its big heart, deep pockets, projecting humanitarian values, ...