Syria's Neighbours Struggle To Cope With Their Refugee Crisis

They march on, slowly, deliberately, desperate to reach a welcoming host nation in Europe. Tens of thousands of refugees are on the move from Syria and beyond - fleeing poverty and persecution.

Over the weekend some 20,000 migrants made their way to Germany from Hungary by train, bus and on foot,

Chancellor Angela Merkel described the events of the past few days as "breathtaking" and tried to reassure German citizens that the crisis was manageable.

But countries neighbouring Syria are finding the crisis increasingly hard to cope with.

It's not surprising when you realise the scale of the humanitarian crisis.

Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey have between them, taken in almost four million refugees.

The huge pressure they are under is the focus of a conference at the Centre for Mediterranean Integration in Marseille, France today.

We hear from Salaheddin Al Bashir, chairman of a charity that provides legal assistance to refugees in Jordan, Gareth Price-Jones, senior advocacy advisor for the charity CARE International, who is currently in Jordan, and Ferid Belhaj, the World Bank's Country Director for the Middle East who's at the conference in Marseille.