The desperate scenes along Macedonia's southern border have continued, as migrants and refugees are stopped from heading north towards western Europe. Around 600 people were allowed through on Friday night, in a train towards Serbia, but more arrived on foot at the border, including many Syrian refugees who had stepped off a boat from the Greek islands, which have seen some 50,000 arrivals in July alone. Macedonia isn't new to dealing with large numbers of refugees, something it found itself doing when thousands of Albanians were housed at refugee camps on its border during the 1999 war in neighbouring Kosovo.
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