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BECKY ANDERSON, HOST: Left out in the cold. Refugees face harsh winter conditions, fleeing their homes in hopes of a better future. But the doors to Europe are starting to close as public opinion chills. We're going to get you the latest reports from Sweden from Norway and from Jordan in the Middle East throughout this hour. Also ahead tonight...</s>FREDERIK PLETIGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Far south, is the biggest gas field in the world with around 1,800 trillion cubic feet of reserves.</s>ANDERSON: Iran is expanding its refining facilities despite low energy prices. We'll get a behind the scene tour of the country's most modern gas facility. Plus, boycott of Donald Trump. U.S. Republican presidential front runner says he won't participate in the next televised debate. Find out why a little later.</s>ANNOUNCER: Live from CNN Abu Dhabi, this is Connect the World with Becky Anderson.</s>ANDERSON: A very good evening from here at just after 8:00. We start on a continent that is seeing its worst refugee crisis since the Second World War. But Europe's attitude appears to be hardening towards those crossing its borders. Now, in the past 24 hours, Germany's government backed a new law making it easier to deport foreign criminals after migrants were accused of attacking hundreds of women on New Year's Eve. And Denmark passed a bill allowing the government to seize valuables from asylum seekers to finance their care, a move many politicians openly say they hope will deter others from coming. With all this as leaders debate whether a borderless Europe can survive with Slovakia's prime minister saying the bloc is committing, quote, ritual suicide with its slow response. And rights groups warning of an erosion of basic European freedoms. Well, we begin tonight with our senior international correspondent Arwa Damon in Sweden where the killing of a worker at a refugee center is provoking anger. Arwa joining me from Malmo. And the stabbing occurred on the same day, Arwa, as police in Sweden demand more resources to stem rising violence, apparently they say, linked to the migrant crisis. What is the response there, firstly, to this attack? All right, looks as if we have lost Arwa. Some communications problems there. Let's move on. We'll get her back for you. Many who fled the Syrian war remain housed in refugee camps in neighboring countries. And for them, a harsh winter is adding to the misery away from Europe to Jordan where Jomana Karadsheh reports from the Zaatari camp.</s>KARADSHEH: It's cold, it's grim and unforgiving. This is winter in Jordan's refugee camp. This family has lived through three winters here. For them, the season means time for traditions from home. They sing this song for Syria. Syria, don't forget us, we will return. Hope is still alive, they sing. But these are just words. They don't think they'll ever see Syria again. This 18-year-old would like to go to Europe or Canada. Living here is not a life. It's an existence, she says. They say they won't risk their children's lives to reach Europe. Instead, they'll wait to be resettled by the United Nations.</s>ANDREW HARPER, HNHCR: The Syrians don't necessarily want to go to Europe. They to want return back to the villages, their towns, their homes. Europe is an alien concept for them. They're scared. For them to put their lives at risk, to put their children's lives at risk to make this journey, wouldn't it be far better to provide the support to countries like Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey to help these countries do what they want to do, which is provide the protection?</s>KARADSHEH: Around 80,000 Syrians live here in this refugee camp. Over the past three years, it has evolved into a city of sorts with markets, restaurants and schools. There are weddings that take place here daily and 50 to 60 babies are born here every week. This camp is the only home this nine-month-old has ever known. When her father and his family fled, they thought it would be for a few months. That was in 2012. Of course, we expect to return, even if this baby is 60, we will continue to hope, he says. With no end in sight to the conflict back home, people old and young can only wonder how many more winters like this they'll have to endure. Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, Zaatari Refugee Camp, Jordan.</s>ANDERSON: Well, that is Jordan. Back to Europe for you where we are witnessing a hardening of attitude towards asylum seekers and migrants. Our senior international correspondent Arwa Damon is in Sweden as we were suggesting where the killing of a worker at a refugee center there provoking anger. Arwa, hopefully on the phone for you now from Malmo. What do we know about the circumstances of this attack on a young social worker, Arwa? And what's the response locally?</s>ARWA DAMON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Wel, there hasn't been a lot of new details that happened divulged at this stage. We do know that she was a volunteer at this asylum center, that it's seen that she was (inaudible) in the asylum center there around 7:00 or 8:00. We don't know their nationality. One of the (inaudible) 15-year-old teen is the one who was responsible for stabbing and killing her seemingly, perhaps, in sort of an argument broke out. Is is for now being called an accident as opposed to an act of terrorism. But it's really going to underscore the need for more security and also this increase in unrest within the asylum seeking community itself. It is to a certain degree a by-product of overcrowding at these various different asylum centers and the challenge of finding housing and accommodations for everybody. And also the duration that people are having to wait before they are moved on into more permanent accommodation. All of this, of course, is a byproduct of the shear volume of numbers that Sweden has taken in, 163,000 in 2015, which does make them the highest number of asylum seekers per capita when it comes to European nations. Now, there is frustration understandably, of course, there is anger surrounding all of this, but there still remains within Sweden a very hospitable attitude towards these asylum seekers who are coming in, although there is a sense among the police force that it is trying to beef up its own ranks that they do need additional support from the government, they do need to have more offices on the ground, because so many of them have been diverted to secure asylum centers. So many of them have been diverted to do border checks, border control where there used to be none, to check people's IDs at train stations. And so that is leading to gaps in security in other parts of the country as well. And there's also this sense amongst a fair number of Swedes that we have been talking to of, you know, we're very happy that our country is being this generous, but we shouldn't be the only ones. Other European nations need to also start pulling their weight, Becky.</s>ANDERSON: All right, Arwa Damon is in Sweden for you. And all this hour, we will be focusing on the global migrant and refugee crisis and how it is reshaping the world to Norway a little later in the show. Well, a man in Denmark has been diagnosed with the Zika virus. Doctors believe he contracted the mosquito-born illness on a recent trip to Latin America. He is expected to leave the hospital today. Brazil is considered ground zero for Zika, which is spread by mosquitoes and is now reported in at least 25 countries in Central and South America. The virus in pregnant women has been linked to a serious birth defect. Well, health officials in some countries are asking women to avoid getting pregnant. Shasta Darlington joining us now from Recife in Brazil. And we spoke at this time last night. How, as this story began to get traction, how are women reacting to this concern and suggestion from authorities?</s>SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: You know, Becky, we're seeing all sorts of reactions. I think starting with the pregnant women and the women who have recently given birth to babies with microcephaly here in Brazil and here is this region, which as we've said is really ground zero, there's a lot of disbelief. A lot of women are saying I never had the symptoms of Zika virus, how could this be. The problem really is that the virus itself is mild. The symptoms are a rash, headache, maybe a mild fever. And up to 80 percent of cases are asymptomatic. So, if these women aren't tested when they have the virus, in many ways it's -- they'll never know whether or not they had it. So, you have people blaming whether everything from vaccines to maybe dengue fever. There's a lot of confusion and fear and panic. And more than anything, fear and panic. So when you go to the maternity wards, you see mothers lining up fearful for getting these tests. Will they discover that the developing heads of their babies still inside their wombs, are they small? You know, it's just -- what we hear and see here is outright panic. And it's not surprising given that we just had new figures out today showing that since the Zika virus was detected in Brazil in the first half of last year, more than 4,000 cases of microcephaly have been reported. These are real people, real families, real babies. They're going to have to deal with this reality. And the comparison, of course, is in 2014 there were just 140 cases of microcephaly. So, this is very rare. And this is ground zero. We're going to see the spreading throughout the Americas. The World Health Organization said they expect the virus to reach every single country in the hemisphere except for Canada and Chile where frankly it's too cold for the mosquito that transmits it, Becky.</s>ANDERSON: Yeah, and we've seen it moving with people across continents as well. We were discussing some 24 hours ago about the deployment or possible deployment of the military in order to try and sort of help sort things out. Is it any clearer what their role would be, if anything, at this point? How authorities feel that they might cope going forward?</s>DARLINGTON: Yeah, Becky, you know, this isn't actually a new strategy. Here in Brazil, dengue fever is endemic. They have been using army troops for years now. And what they do is they've been trained and they go door to door with health officials, and they're looking for that standing water that's the real focal point. It's where the mosquito, Aedes aegypti multiplies and thrives on more than half of the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are actually breeding in the homes of residents. So, they go door to door, they look for the standing water. They educate the public, hand out pamphlets. They are also now handing out repellent to pregnant women. It's a great idea. They say they are going to have 200,000 troops doing it. The problem is what we have seen up until now doesn't show that it's worked. The health minister himself said that last year they had a record number of dengue cases in Brazil despite the use of these troops. So, how this is really all of a sudden going to work in the face of Zika is an open question. They have obviously got the fear factor in their favor. People are scared. So, combined with the use of these troops and the greater public becoming more educated, they are hoping to make some progress there, Becky.</s>ANDERSON: Shasta Darlington in Brazil for you. Shasta, thank you. Still to come tonight, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani drums up investment in Europe. And one of his advisers tells us how his country is open for business. That's next. And Donald Trump is dominating political talk once again in the United States. This time it is over his decision to boycott the next televised debate. You're watching Connect the World with me Becky Anderson out of Abu Dhabi this evening. 12 minutes past 8:00. Taking a very short break. Back after this.