Demolition teams are due back in Calais to continue dismantling the migrant camp known as the "jungle".

There were clashes into the night yesterday, after the most populated half of the site started to be cleared.

The shanty dwellings in the southern part of the slum are home to around 4,000 people, many of whom want to reach the UK.

Tear gas was used by riot police on people who were reportedly throwing stones at the demolition squads.

Officers also used water hoses to disperse migrants, while fires broke out in some of the shacks.

The authorities plan to relocate people to a nearby container park and reception centres across France.

However, campaigners had called for the evictions to be delayed - arguing there was not enough alternative accommodation.

Aid agencies have said the action will affect around 3,500 people, although State officials put the figure much lower at up to 1,000.

"There is no answer, except to be humane"

Some 6,500 people, including children, remain stuck at or near the border crossing at Idomeni in Greece, with another 500 at a makeshift camp on a small concrete strip around 13 miles away.

Police chiefs from Balkan and East European countries are meeting to discuss how to stem the flow of people coming from Turkey and Greece as they try to pass through Europe.

Greece is thought to have 25,000 migrants stranded in the country, with many thousands sleeping in parks and fields as refugee shelters quickly overflow.

United Nations Special Representative for International Migration, Peter Sutherland, has told European countries to follow Germany's lead and accept millions more asylum seekers.

He has also criticised the demolition of part of the refugee camp in Calais.

He told Newstalk Breakfast there is only one answer to the crisis.

William Spindler is from the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.