VOA常速英语:寒冷席卷欧洲东南部，难民面临冻死的危险

As the extreme weather grips southeast Europe,thousands of migrants are sleeping in empty warehouses or abandoned buildings,well providing shelter from the snow, even inside the temperatures are well below freezing.

“I haven’t seen this kind of place in my dreams.This situation is too much bad and the weather is too much cold.”

The Serbian government has urged all migrants to move to official camps.But aid groups say they are full.

Doctors Without Borders says many migrants have already died from the cold.The group is treating a range of health problems, says the charity’s head of mission in Serbia, Stephane Moissaing, via Skype.

“This must be fixing.We are not grateful to strand this and body likes.And in addition, for the new arrivals who cross the border from Bulgaria mainly,we have in the last days several cases of frostbite.”

Around 100 migrants a day continue to arrive in Serbia,despite Hungary’s efforts to cut off the Balkan route by building border fences along the shared frontier.

Many come from Greece, where tens of thousands of migrants remain stranded.

The cold weather has reached Athens and even the Greek Islands.

Facing international criticism over conditions in the camps,authorities have moved hundreds of migrants into empty hotel rooms under a U.N.-sponsored program.A navy ship docked at Lesbos Island will house 500 migrants.

“We hope that soon there will be no people in tents, specially because the weather conditions are still harsh, and winter hasn’t finished yet.”

Aid agencies have criticized the European Union for failing to help the stranded migrants. Speaking in Malta Wednesday, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker called on member states to implement the EU’s agreed relocation plan.

“The problem of refugees cannot be left to Greece, to Italy, to Malta.It is a European problem and we need a European response of solidarity.”

Meanwhile, Germany reported a sharp fall in the number of asylum seekers entering the country in 2016, 280,000 people,compared to 890,000 in 2015.

Henry Ridgwell, for VOA news, London.