Syrian Family Trapped in Moscow Airport
LU STOUT: Now, we want to take a moment to bring you this, the latest video -- live video of something that we are following very closely here at CNN -- the influx, the deluge of refugees going into Europe mainly from Syria and Afghanistan. And what you see on your screen are live pictures coming to us from Slovenia's border with Austria as thousands of migrants try to pass through the small, small Alpine state. You can see the crowd of migrants gathering there, barricades all around them, the authorities trying to manage the situation. Now, as we've seen in our coverage, you've heard of how many of these people are trying to take this route and others to ultimately get to Germany. Now Germany has promised to send hundreds of border guards to help with the situation to help with the sudden and growing flow of people there. Now Slovenia, it has become a key transit point since Hungary sealed its border with Croatia some 10 days ago. Live pictures on your screen there of the migrant chaos from Slovenia's border with Austria. Now, Syrian refugees trying to escape war, they find themselves facing more battles abroad. And one Kurdish family knows that all too well. Now, they want to settle in Russia, but authorities won't accept their travel documents. As Nic Robertson reports, that has left them stuck in a Moscow airport for 50 days.</s>NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Stuck in limbo at a Moscow Airport, a family of Syrian refugees with only their phones to plead their plight.</s>RAYNASS MOHAMMED, SYRIAN REFUGEE: My name is Reynass. We are from Syria. We are living in an airport. And this is our life. We are living in airport in terminal in transition.</s>ROBERTSON: For the past 50 days they've been held in a transit area as authorities checked their documents.</s>MOHAMMED: I have two brothers and one sister and father and mother. We want you to help us, please. Here it's very cold for sleeping or for sitting for came in here is very cold.</s>ROBERTSON: His father, Hassan, is desperate. "We need your help," he says, "because here there is no rights of refugees, no one listens to us. I don't know it's such a strange law." The airport, Sheremetyevo, is no stranger to surprise guests stuck in its bureaucracy. Controversial whistleblower Edward Snowden skulked its labyrinthine corridors for about 40 days in 2013 before the Russians finally let him in. The family's lawyer say border officials claim their passports were bogus, but subsequent checks with Damascus prove both them and their visas valid. Foreign ministry officials say the family is being treated no differently to other Syrian refugees and expect their case to be resolved soon. Levin (ph) is the youngest, just 3-years-old. The children's aunt lives in Russia, has a home for them, is trying to help them. Charity workers have been delivering some food and toys. And for the past few days the family have been allowed to spend nights in an airport capsule hotel. Their big fear, they may get sent back to the war they fled.</s>MOHAMMED: Please help us. Here is very bad. They didn't give it anything for us, no water, no food, no anything. Please, help us. We (inaudible) with nice hand.</s>ROBERTSON: For now, lost in transit, a limbo with a very uncertain future. Nic Robertson, CNN, Moscow.</s>LU STOUT: You just saw him, you just heard that young boy, this young Syrian refugee plead for help. And for ways that you can help ease the plight of refugees, go to our website CNN.com/impact. Now still to come right here on News Stream. We will introduce you to an American volunteer who has paid his own way to Syria to join the ground offensive against ISIS. And China, ends the biggest population control experiment of our time. We'll talk to an expert about the effect of the country ending its one- child policy and introducing the two child policy.