Greece starts emptying border camp as new arrivals slow

Greece said Saturday it has begun emptying the main migrant camp on its border with Macedonia, as the huge tide of refugees flooding into the country slows to a trickle following the EU-Turkey deal. Eight buses transported around 400 refugees from the Idomeni camp Friday, while another three buses left on Saturday, taking them to other camps set up in northern Greece, local police said.Those persuaded to board the first buses were mainly parents with children who can no longer tolerate the difficult conditions in the squalid camp. Janger Hassan, 29, from Iraqi Kurdistan, who has been at the Idomeni camp for a month with his wife and two young children, said he will probably leave too. "There's nothing to do here. The children are getting sick. It's a bad situation, the last two days it's windy, sometimes it's raining here," he told media. "We don't have a choice. We have to move." But some are still holding out at Idomeni. "People who have no hope or have no money, maybe they will go," said 40-year-old Fatema Ahmed from Iraq, who has a 13-year-old son in Germany and three daughters with her in the camp. "But I have hope, maybe something better will happen tomorrow, maybe today," she added. On Saturday, inside one of the soaking tents of the camp, a 24-year-old woman travelling from Kobani with her two little girls, gave birth to another baby girl.