'Please help the Syrians': A refugee boy's heartfelt plea
A heartfelt video from a 13-year-old Syrian boy has gone viral after he issued a simple plea regarding the refugee crisis.
Kinan Masalemehi gave his message about the crisis to an Al Jazeera America reporter and he simply asks for help for his people.
The boy had reportedly escaped Sutan Darrah in Syria with his sister and a few days later he was spotted in Hungary trying to get information.
The boy said: "The police don't like the Syrians in Serbia, in Hungary, in Macedonia, in Greece."
When asked what his message was by the reporter he replies: "My message is please help the Syrians."
"The Syrian's need help now, just stop the war and we don't want to go to Europe.
"Just stop the war in Syria, just that."
The video has gone viral in a week where the European migrant crisis has led news bulletins around the world.
Many migrants were forced from a train in Hungary and scuffled with helmeted riot police and some clung to railway tracks, as politicians across Europe struggled to respond to public opinion appalled by images of a drowned three-year-old boy.
In one incident a man frustrated by the police action and the chaos appeared to throw his wife on to the tracks.
It also comes after politicians across the continent acknowledged the impact on Thursday of images of a 3-year-old boy in a red T-shirt and tiny sneakers face down in the surf of a Turkish beach, which gave a haunting human face to the tragedy of thousands dead at sea.
"He had a name: Aylan Kurdi. Urgent action required - A Europe-wide mobilisation is urgent," French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Twitter.
The boy's 5-year-old brother Galip and 35-year-old mother Rehan were also among 12 people who died when two boats carrying 23 capsized while trying to reach a Greek island.
His father Abdullah Kurdi, who was rescued barely conscious, collapsed in tears after emerging from a morgue where the bodies were held.
Joyce wants to bring in more Syrians
Cabinet minister Barnaby Joyce wants Australia to resettle more Syrian refugees as the the humanitarian crisis in Europe deepens.
Mr Joyce was touched by the personal story of a man whose plastic bag of water bottles and a packet of biscuits were his only possessions in the world.
"As an accountant myself, when you see an accountant walking across the border into Hungary from Syria when his life has been destroyed I feel a sense of empathy for him," Mr Joyce told The West Australian.
