Transcripts For ALJAZ Al Jazeera Correspondent A Refugees Tale 20240712

A significantly President Trump focusing on these states because they are critical to him if hes going to be able to win the election and more to do his term within the white house hes attempting to reset the debate as well before he went out on the campaign trail he tweeted Fake News Media is going full on covert covert covert we are rounding the turn 99. 9 percent so thats what hes saying attempting to reset the discussion from his handling of the coronavirus pandemic to his handling of the economy now all polls indicate that joe biden is rated far more highly in terms of his handling of the pandemic President Trump is regarded far less favorably however on the economy President Trump would agree to have the edge as the polls indicate but this final week absolutely critical because now we are seeing the gaps narrowed down between the 2 candidates states that were not in play in 2016 for the Democratic Party are now in play such as where joe biden is today and that is georgia more than 90 people have been arrested during protests in philadelphia against the Police Shooting of a black man dozens of officers were injured during the unrest that mr it was a wrangling about the shooting death of Walter Wallace officers say the 27 year old was holding a knife and ignored orders to drop it a bystander filmed the incident and posted it on social media we need a speedy and transparent resolution for the sake of mr wallace his family the officers and for all philadelphia. I know that many philadelphians are feeling frustrated and outraged following yesterdays trash incident i fully support your 1st amendment rights protest but we also ensure that our communities are not further her as a result please be careful police in italy have fired tear gas at people protesting against a new restrictions to limit the spread of covert 19 measures include forcing restaurants and bars to close earlier than normal a 2nd wave is hitting europe hard record new infections are being reported across the continent the African Union is calling for calm in tanzania ahead of local and National Elections on wednesday police in the semi autonomous zanzibar region have denied firing bullets of protesters a Major Opposition Party says 8 people were killed during demonstrations the Syrian Special envoy at the un is urging cooperation between russia and turkey as well as a russian airstrike that killed at least 78 Turkish Backed rebels in the region on monday the 2 countries back opposing sides in the conflict these dynamics can unravel depreciates calm achieved through post of the russian turkish corp corp which already faces junctions even that joint patrols have remained stalled for old mom. I appeal both to russia and turkey through if to contain the situation in the us 2 major wildfires are burning in parts of Southern California powerful winds are causing the fires in Orange County to spread so far more than 100000 people have been forced to leave their homes hundreds of firefighters have been deployed a local elec tricity company says its equipment may have accidentally started one of the fires. At least 4 migrants have died after their boat capsized while trying to cross the English Channel to the u. K. 2 children are among the dead French Maritime Officials Say 15 others were rescued about 4000 migrants from france have tried to reach the u. K. Via the channel this year in august the 2 countries agreed to draft new measures to halt the crossings those are the headlines the news continues here after aljazeera correspondent a refugees tale good buy. My name is a killer mani im a documentary filmmaker and a former refugee from kosovo. I was forced to leave home in the early ninetys when i was 8 years old at the start of the balkan wars. An independent republic when i was growing up close to what was the province of communist. This was my grandmothers home one of tens of thousands put into the ground under the orders of the serbian president slobodan milosevic. Destroyed because the majority of course of those Ethnic Albanians like me wanted independence from the serbian state that dominated us and subjected us to persecution. This year is the 30th anniversary of my refugee journey time from looking back and taking stock. I know full longer than. I 1st came here as a teenager in 1904 i will always be grateful to the u. K. For granting me asylum and british citizenship. And my family full of me in 1999 but i still have questions for. But i need to also. And i want to find out what kind of welcome Asylum Seekers receive when they see a surge in europe to. Thank. I think i was 15 or 16 the 1st time when i joined a protest the students off camera a few people who were wounded and i have seen people you know. Blood on the streets and all the students who come this way you know on one occasion where there was another an american of the negation you know i was just coming up here on this track on this just here and i got shot i fell down and i literally felt like i was that with all the students of in from the me screaming hes alive hes alive you know. But here i was lucky thank you know it was very rare of them to use plastic bullets with a woman didnt use real my mom. To sleep is an old school friend. We were pulled forced to escape at the same time for the same reason i mean i mean greece or 18th birthday so we were due to be conscripted into the sort of you nor me meaning fighting for the enemy so you either had to fight the courts or the boston. Or die trying to desert so you were big you know between 2 fires your era crossfire and thats how how a couple of guys apart knew about died they were stopped for a routine check up police saw their i. D. s and they disappeared and then. They got killed in in the world in boston just a few weeks before i left a soldier was sun back and how meticulous close yeah you know and it was secret you know so they were all supposed to literally on the official letters that they got from the army the guy committed suicide and the long bullets in his back was not bullets they found 24 bullets on his back you know he was riddled with bullets but i remember so its like you know yeah i mean this was this was kind of the final straw and it was there was no way either physically or roy was going to be cannon fodder for the serbs. The decision to escape was easy the actual parting was hard im never asked my parents how they felt when i left i visit them at their other home here in pristina. Im hoping the memories wont be too painful for them. John warner one of us of course does care now. Also was it me thought to quietly during their news must that neda but you mean obviously they screwed up it thought neutral because the new school at the back to whatever they mean it took court you know the. Most record to. Me of the book and minute it could there really are. This mythical. Juice with dead us that the newseum must be a source of supporters and say heres a mish zone so you can then when the old pop and the archdeacons only can muster to me come here again it was of course quite on the scale now but the whole break last year when consumed skinned it up of course mark pesce and more are greatly needed the world kate. Have a story. To increase its credibility and i will keep this that is a fiction super shot to keep me thirst. Just the more they do with. Doltish that yes in my past me it just happened after who knows what would have happened if i stayed. I probably wouldnt be alive today. The idea of not knowing thats what kills you and you dont know if its gonna be for a week for a month or a year for 30 and you know its its just incredible i was only 18. And you never know if you can ever see your family again. To escape cos so i hid in the back of an empty petrol tankers driven by a family friend if i was discovered i knew id almost certainly be shocked. To be honest i was scared like really scared. Where the border it is now was like the muss of checkpoints you know all the Serbian Forces police. Have what a relief when the army just passed a border you know. Although the e. U. Still had internal borders back then i made it to safety of the relative ease. A far cry from what refugees and you are today. A lot changed from the war in syria hundreds of thousands of new Asylum Seekers were created displaced families fleeing the bombing. Most European Countries responded by closing the borders. Then in march 26th seen the e. U. Made a deal with turkey paying 3000000000 euros to prevent Asylum Seekers from crossing into europe. But tens of thousands each year still a time to journey illegally risking their lives to get the. Most to successfully complete the perilous journey by land passed through the greek city of the saloniki. Thats where i meet refugees seeking help from a medical charity. One of these tickets for us if i was right and for dr. Some have walked hundreds of kilometers to get here. What you say there was that she had wanted to kill me at 611 because of the what song. Dr i guess how many days you walked on 77th in the years that i got off and you are so solved by my feet still very. Most of the refugees have stories of several previous failed attempts to cross the turkish you border as well as human rights abuses by men in uniform i think me to be important if they get cold and it must be quite honestly on. The one when one hears my voice it will be between 3 times take my money says one doctor that has this happened in the whole of the. Women going and. Im horrified by what these guys have to go through not to use to get to europe. By comparison my own journey to escape was easy. Once out of serbia i was able to go safely by bus to sweden i didnt have to hide walk for days or worry about being killed at any other countrys border. Most Asylum Seekers come to greece a small boat smuggled across from turkey. Im heading for less force a greek garland around 6 kilometers from the Turkish Coast it hosts the largest refugee camp in europe. The morea camp was intended as a short term Registration Center for Asylum Seekers waiting to transfer elsewhere. It has capacity for 3000 people but over 13000 are living here and the numbers are growing. More stay in the no risk belay area known as the jungle. This man from im going to start arrived here 3 weeks earlier. Your kids are. Shot. To flacco calling one of them if i said those are my knees are still. In the field what is our morning. Meeting go on and it. Was a curious one and then he was over the only sort of new some come over to finland missler i wanted in just in the dominican. Element for me to see what yeah i can offer to shake magazine. Also from the going to star wants to show me very lives. On the way we pass the toilet seat has to serve with hundreds of others. I want. The number of the stench is overwhelming. My goal this is not. How do you do not sending him. Lets say no to that which you did in the end she had island. Fame holes in it you know what it is and how long youre supposed to stay here do you know. Interviewing what island by the young monk youd have to mean to be a mother that about a high she. Survived has been here for 2 months but are still waiting for the e. U. Funded cash assistance refugees are entitled to. And what ive been showing them in. Im soon surrounded by refugees eager to tell me about the lack of medical help in the county where they get this and other more psych eval far. From dr no no doctor thats just one thing you get out of it but certainly know that you know that thats all this is for one month. And what is your problem what is the back. Talk on the phones other people. Formal thank you good luck or thank you thank you another afghan refugee asked me to follow him. Michael youre very yeah right and to be a refuse you. Know i had who you know i escaped. From punk and its rock thank you yeah i was low before then if you go and thought you killed your server your 5 month so this is your 4 children. You know i dont care you know. His family arrived 3 days earlier i did not know i said i mean the story that means that i know what it means to be thought it was no way to know. The family called by their own food without cash assistance. And theres a big problem carter working. You know what he. Did on his actions this year when youre going to get the new car. Car so yes its months my goal this is shocking and otis is supposed to learn how youre going to survive what the guy had asthma how to go going to match what it was about michael j. Called and that was what i like my little one was involved in a battle which i didnt hear and so can you leave from here. Your story yes its stuck here i hope it works out and i hope you will go away as soon as possible. The greek government has found only for me behind the fence inside the main camp. Its called by police. But readers shot by refugees reveal conditions inside the compound no better if not worse than outside the only obvious difference is the some refugees have metal containers to live in rather than tents i wasnt allowed inside the camp to speak to people. But some women came to the courtyard of a local charter to meet me. From countries to b. C. But we go and hear. Them which do not disagree with your us sauce 100 head maybe leave us understand us hummus out of a chest of muslim detest. First if you can sound logical muslim and you to call me and call me that if you have a how about the muslim that im with that im going to suffer hazell on because it has a well im going to suffer less than that in itself as i get much out of a whole history of us as a cause of our change of leadership he was playing it when color was crushing with him he killed. You have to appreciate tonto conics artist could have thought under so hush the commies bad night charge not charge more but it does so much its evoking after the q. And a much ado surprise and i wish i had official bizarre not but a bit to some vested as a show that really its a little bit severed that our country and but they cannot make a good place for a. Few. Women and children are particularly vulnerable in the marina camp. Many are sick but most go untreated as there arent enough doctors. You know so here is where the service is over but i dont. Think the national and your doctors without borders. Invite me to visit their mobile childrens clinic to get this for myself the scale of unmet needs. D. M. s of course the nature on the island you have a posse come hard this frustration too was a you. Its a game and deterrence policy. Keeping 15200 people in a camp like this is just unacceptable women children pregnant women and accompanied minors people with disabilities lack of food lack of medical services i mean its really unnecessary well you know all this misery it is absolutely avoidable it brings shame to everybody in europe to think that europe cannot cope up with this number of people they cannot absorb this number that people have to suffer in this way it is unacceptable the degree of the as a crowding is the Vulnerable People they really need to be moved out people with psychiatric problems need to be moved out people that are victims of torture need to be moved out of the camp people with Severe Health problems if people in the camps suffering from cancer require treatment that are not being treated at this point in time i mean im just you go through those symptoms it must be hell if i as a healthy person without the experiences of having been right there having been told to go heavy lived in a war site was placed in the Registration Center of madea in a manner of wakes im going to need Mental Health support. You have to get if i show no no no im just saying im trying to think of the you know when i was you know when i was going around the council you know i just really felt like how hollow north is this possible you know its were like 20192020 almost you know europe in europe. Is just crazy this is ridiculous is lead to i meet up with muhammad the young learn from the camp. Being in the more you can see it hard for example where when we want to take a break 1st we should wake up 6 am and until 8 am we are in the line to take just one small cake its not enough for one to adults 1st and yet known we should sense 2 hours to take your food and winning we should stand 2 hours to spend 6 years is losing 6 hours we are ascending into line to eat food its really hard and when i arrived here about 3 weeks ago. 10 days in this street not in the tents because they said that we dont give tends to the single month and most of the people wants to run away from here because here is the same as hell its really hard to. Argue that there are. Wrong. Then make the move. Here you need to have to run a very remarkable people here the next day much to give up on it. Because of their mori accounts dont give us enough food most of the refugees force so rob fruits from the garden so thats why you people are hostile and its because if he says i think. I want to say thats as soon as possible i live here but greek government still insists us to go so you start here yes im stuck here and why did you have to leave a lot of problems for example my cousin fighting the taliban he died in the taliban this oratory of a. Thank you so. You know dont let depression get you things dont change you know. This is me when i was 18. So you had a fair call in this picture yeah so yeah samys yeah i left as well whenever anything i left home and when. I was a bit i then yes. I feel so sorry for mohamed when i escaped to sweden i was the same age i didnt have to sleep in the streets i had relatives to stay with. And the worst abuse i had to suffer was people yelling is me ok me im just want to tell a girl whom black skull because i had told him not blown like this. Theres someone else unless of course im keen to meet and hes the arch and. All of the paintings i dont buy refugees artist every come soon is founder of the hope center and you on the island. Originally from england he moved here with his family in 1909 and is that you there thats me q 2015 a boat sank 100 meters out they featured my daughter and then he went out and she saved charlie went under says 2015 the child is help thousands of Asylum Seekers arriving here illegally in little rubber dinghies this is the boat number to vote number 3 good for landing over here now on the syrian. Border babies on the truck. They save people 1600 people thank you because im 50 and it felt like it. And we lost a lot of people out there one day we lost 74 people to kill it kilometers up my house and i just wear smartwatch and too many good children. Too much has he. Been 2015 at the heart of the refugee crisis is over 400 Asylum Seekers drowned in the g. M. Says the e. U. Took youd feel into a new 16 fewer arrivals mean few would sincere around 100. 00 on average but for the 10s of thousands who do make it to greek shores theres one big drawback the problem is now because any you turkey deal theyre stuck. In 2015 they were in on the island 3 days they were gone it is a crime against humanity whats going on here theyre living on the road they live on the streets in the rain snow everything. Going in well though with a little girl and a beautiful swan. And this all going to boil with same age as marine one unless. There was a team of zone miss. My most which was the maria come. On all the people who are. With the mother call collision. When there were. Refugees here call us was a beautiful prison. I want to find out was preventing them from leaving. 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Starting with trumps campaigning efforts the 3 states hes visiting in the course of the day he talked very easily and 2016 but now all polls indicate that its neck and neck with Joe Biden Biden shrunk that gap the lead that trump had 4 years ago shrinking a significantly President Trump focusing on these states because they are critical to him if hes going to be able to win the election and more to do within the white house more than 90 people have been arrested during protests in philadelphia against the Police Shooting of a black man dozens of officers were injured during the rest demonstrators are angry about the shooting death of Walter Wallace officers say the 27 year old was holding a knife and ignored orders to drop it a bystander filmed the incident and posted it on social media. Police in italy fired tear gas during protests against new restrictions to limit the spread of covert 19 a 2nd wave is hitting europe hard records new infections are being reported across the continent the African Union is calling for calm in tanzania head of local and National Elections on wednesday police in the semi autonomous zones of our region have denied firing bullets at protesters a Major Opposition Party says 8 people were killed during demonstrations. In the u. S. 2 major wildfires are burning in parts of Southern California powerful winds are causing the fires in Orange County to spread so far more than 100000 people have been forced to leave their homes hundreds of firefighters have been deployed a local Entity Company says its equipment may have accidentally started one of the fires at least 4 migrants have died after their boat capsized while trying to cross the English Channel to the u. K. 2 children among the dead french matters on Officials Say 15 others were rescued about 4000 migrants from france have tried to reach the u. K. Via the channel this year. Those are the headlines the news continues here on our visitor after college is it a correspondent or boy. Im a former refugee from kosovo 30 years on ive come to greece to find out how this would use in europe are treated today. On the island a less of us are seeing the poor conditions and where you have come. Most Asylum Seekers are stuck here for months some even years. This 28 year old i mean from iran has been confined here for 3 years. But i mean 1st came to less force he spent 7 months in the maria camp of his brother. Now hes living in this flat provided by the United Nations refugee agency. And youve been living for 27 months there anderson. Is that your father i mean is claimed for asylum was rejected even though both his father and oldest brother were assassinated in iran which amused spent 4 months in the greek prison awaiting deportation and then i wasnt present my brother then it that he got hunger same to get. Russias public Hunger Strike help to get a me released from prison soon after rush was granted Refugee Status and left the island. Amir eventually won his legal appeal but is still waiting for the documents that will allow him to leave the country and also don as a young child im pushed her mission out and. I thought mission wonderful and. Well and mission. Well those are the sort of things it was known for. And was in and was on ship go around many times in the one along which are in the management of montreal says only each month general with them and its going to injure them and when they speak over them and says oh yeah it was on the ground i mean really i think she goes its just. Im shocked that amir has been virtually a prisoner here and the so much of his potential is being wasted as a new refugee in england i spent my 1st 3 years studying for a University Degree is the reason i got a good job today. While unless most of it the some most illiterate to was Asylum Seekers from locals. To me this is on the standard of its estimated that refugees make up around 40 percent of the fellatio in this part of the island. Local businesses fear this makes less was less attractive to tourist damaging the local economy. None of the refugees are spoken to want to stay on the island so why are so many trapped here for so long. I also human rights lawyer at the Free Legal Advice Center in less was people are not allowed to leave the island until their asylum procedure has been completed why is it taking so long for Asylum Seekers claims to be assessed i think theres a lack of dedication of resources to actually assess peoples claims and this goes back to the politics behind. What are used migration policies billions of euros are sent every year to turkey to help to militarize their borders to keep people from coming to europe and much less actually being sent back help protect refugees who are coming to europe and assess their asylum claims. d d d d d d under the e. U. Turkey deal millions of you resort being spent policing the sea border between turkey and greece. I meet up with volunteers from a human rights and you to find out what that means for those attempting to arrive unless it was illegally. Philippon because the skipper. Of the moderate liberal. He and his crew have been monitoring the activities of beautiful says in the sea between turkey and greece since 2015 philip what are the main changes the u. Has become a fortress so we have a lot of greek coast guard assets patrolling boats we have patrolling boats from the European Union foreign tax. And we have nato washin huge 100 meter warships which are made for for shooting a whole airplanes out of the sky here for lookout for boats trying to flee turkey was little rubber boats theres all these military forces and Police Forces to stop the trafficking business but to be honest on these boats there are no smugglers and theyre just people trying to escape. Once a refugee booth reaches greek territory is unlawful to do it back into took his route was. But the top was none the less there were incidents where 11 coast guard told a boat back from creek water stewards turkish waters and the boat mean by being towed. Capsized and people died in this minute we have a lot of police here but we dont have 100 percent search and rescue assets Border Control is more important than actually rescuing people. Before leaving greece i want to say goodbye to my new friend mohammed over there i thought they. Were. Seeing him return to the camp and its inhumane conditions i feel a sense of guilt that we were peons have collectively let him down. By our sourcing is refugees to turkey europe has created a humanitarian crisis on the greek islands. Back in the u. K. I come to meet an expert at the university of oxford. I might well have actually present views professor beths has been assessing the reasons for the failure of the e. U. To step in to help solve the refugee crisis in greece like if you do some you know simple math. And you divided by it 28. 00 countries below a mere 5600. 00 people going to surely the you know it would be easy but its not a crisis of numbers its a crisis of politics and it is embarrassing and shameful for me as a british citizen to see that our politicians france the home secretary have created language like the hostile environment that thats a policy response to say lets make the experience of being a migrant or an Asylum Seeker in britain as miserable and horrible as it can be to dissuade people from coming here weve seen that in germany with the rise of the far right weve seen it in italian politics weve seen in hungary across europe we see politicians exploiting the myth of a real crisis of numbers as it got worse because of the e. U. Turkey deal from a european perspective european politicians will say the Numbers Committee europe have been cut but if youre sitting stuck stranded in greece or desperate to move onwards from turkey then its a horrendous set of outcomes is 30 or so countries for the other super than the produce can a country that has human rights record that has a record of. Ill treatment of minorities like the cat really be regarded safe country but the politics is making it into the largest refugee hosting country in the world and a country that were now dependent upon to ensure the human rights of some 4000000 refugees and theres a lot to question in the. In the late ninetys in my homeland thousands donington over 1000000 plus when all basis were forced to flee in the face of violence and ethnic cleansing by sort of armed forces. Nato began the Bombing Campaign to stop the trustees. The support of the un relief operation over 4000 possible refugees were evacuated to the u. K. My parents and 3 younger brothers were among the we all live in london and are meeting for sunday lunch. The kind of welcome they received when they 1st arrived in england never ceases to amaze me. The more of them suitable for more must call us about them and speak out we are all for tonight not the most seducer my own off the bus tours of other drugs that. Soon enough work to not concrete today have not counted on me a very. Good day. Maybe. They like him. To live had him a bit of dominic or some of their cattle in the front. Of the crowd a lot of our us call right off the probable. Cause for all the other questions about doing just that i thought difficulties of who. You are we have them in your song on nice with the nice. Well preserved you know come to more of a she doing you know more british kilometers to me if it was important or you can come through there that you sense that the feeling has changed towards refugees and migrants and literally 2 months after a break said someone came up to me outside because he could hear me speak another language and said why dont you go back to a come from and it was shocking because this is my home i we grew up in london is our home you feel that youre not british you know youre not the same level of you see yourself reading british kosovan or a bit of both little book for thing but obviously i think crossover but i dont think about it twice you know i would i would give my life for this city because its amazing i would do anything for english its our beloved england its our country that we grew up in the people dont understand how much we love it the brits so if there was to be a war in england id be the 1st one to put their little get in so. Theres a mass coming up in england cause were going to support when we watch the england kosovo here in southampton when england scored we were still got up they clapped everyone i mean cause of a school with the claps it was a weird feeling really it was a win win situation. It really saddens me that the england has become a less welcoming place for refugees. But im still hopeful that the traditional British Values of tolerance and caring for others less fortunate will prevail. You. Have come to germany as a destination country for refugees in Europe Germany is by far the most popular it has generously accepted more Asylum Seekers than any other european country but attitudes are changing. I meet up with the arm of the britain near dortmund. The refugee from syria he arrived in germany in november 25th at the heart of the refugee crisis you know helps new arrivals seeking asylum in the country. And thematic detail and. Then even for. A family with. My wife. And ive been limping with much of. The bad bad this year my. In 2015 while most other European Countries clues that germany will come around a 1000000 syrians. Of the shinkansen now at their money only as you know of. The fact. That no higher law is sunny. But by march 2 in the 16 many germans openly express those filleted to the g. s. Politically the far right wing from. The chancellor merkel signed the deal with turkey making europe a unified fortress. With. More kill your the had to stand here. And im here. This year has. Passed but i want to be a good side up. I know my pass and she will be. In with the American Flag jay leno. Listen im going to my do on sirius and be on a plan b. Become well actually about the comic that this or that my singing will happen mom bought that we are here i want that but i want to say. There is one person i can leave germany without visiting or hell never forgive me i havent seen my uncle a year for 7 years so all. Where. Where. They are is also a former refugee from kosovo he came to germany in the mid nineties has lived here for 25 years started me thought. That if i let. The money to go. After catching up with family news i also my uncle if hes been affected by the growing are still if he too was refugees in germany i see a tough problem ican. Just quickly know that who just your german political we pray. To bust your wallet. Give me the money. First ring them up a portable mobile part of which are so dark and cost him a new bush how much torture on those belong to those who lose all readers and a man a man and 2. 00 more a mix. Of over the sure you. Want him out on in the minute he not all men even to common boss harbaugh warned couple seal of truth board bush im a mom wont bore still more though that i will be gone those i met on your knee how your own in the calmest the worst possible. 3rd was other born that weve already given up on in the movie with. There are. More than. Im pleased of my uncle and his family or well integrated and have a good life here but it saddens me that germany has become far less compassionate to refugees. Perhaps thats because rather like greece its received an unfair burden of Asylum Seekers than 2015 due to other e. U. Countries closing their borders. I cant help but wonder whether recourse of those would have been quite so welcome in europe in the 90s had there been many more of us and if we had brown skin not white who knows. Im headed for turkey the country was host to the largest number of refugees in the world. Says 2015 the e. U. Has paid turkey a massive 6000000000 euros to keep Asylum Seekers safe within its borders and stop them crossing into europe. Im here to find out how refugees are treated in the socalled safe country. Due to government restrictions its not always possible for people to speak openly but the monkey learned a human rights lawyer here in israel agrees to talk to me nobody can assure him that turkey is a safe country could the size of government is a big problem in turkey for example the e. U. It knew everything from the beginning so it wasnt a human rights issue for them. They just wanted to keep the refugees although they are responsible areas so the refugee problem has been stalled for the e. U. As we have 4000000 at least 4000000 refugees in turkey. Under turkish law only people fleeing european states officially qualify as refugees. So turkeys 4000000 syrian Asylum Seekers have fewer rights than refugees in most e. U. Countries the head of the state always say that they are guests in turkey but today we have kids who were born here in turkey and now now maybe 7 years old and 8 years old they dont even speak any. As a refugee for a period of time you should know what you can be this isnt this country in turkey we dont give them this opportunity. I visit the t. Office center in the poor area office when. In a city of over 4000000 people it is the only and 0 offering Rehabilitation Services to refugee children mutually to those seriously injured in the war in syria. From aleppo her parents were killed during the bombing and afterwards one of news lexx had to be amputated it was the charity that provides interprete faeces with their help noor has learned to walk and jump again her sister was also seriously injured in the bombing. Didnt you that it. Would lead to the surgery here is that a battle of the. Very nature what. What would you like for the future what what are your dreams. Like well there seemed. To be off the all their funds to help a small number of the disabled refugee children in the city. The open market in the mideast is near he moved out of that meat of hundreds of markets but the little investment. If you dont even have to do mon enfant you know this is a good model. Omar is a University Student his family suit asylum 7 years ago but the store to the city. And i. Cant on any other. I mean. Im going to. Make a. Camel hope thats a. Chapter here. Mccain and im not going to suffer being a mother and then it became. Almost universally is a different city he needs a permit to travel the. The thought one he can be arrested theres a lot of questions we have to take we cannot go d anytime anywhere you know but if you go at night i just want to go to another city and see a friend the. Teacher or something you know you could go the rest of the scene and are more. Beautiful subtle. I mean and i dont. Mean this sort of thing like in most of the not a lot of it can. Get to me bad and i. Love it. And that. And i said that. It feels on just to me that omar has to live with the fear of being returned to work from syria even though hes lived and worked here for 7 years. After 4 years in england and no way of returning safely to cross when i was granted full british citizenship. And i was never treated as a 2nd class citizen needing a government permit just to visit a friend in another city. It is through good turkey maybe a safer place for refugees from syria at the moment but i dont think the e. U. Should be paying this country billions to keep them here. Europe should be on the menu stuti under the geneva convention. Not outsourcing human beings to non e. U. Countries like so much dirty laundry. Thats if. I have 2 homes no one here in kosovo and one in the u. K. Who are there with you having seen work for 3 g. s today have to suffer i realize more than never of lucky oh yeah. I dont have to fear for the safety of my family or worry if theres enough food for them to survive. And there are thousands of customers who feel just like me. Im back and pushed enough for the euro 2020 qualifiers because of our playing england at home. Theres a giant cheer from across from crowd when the english team come out. And locals hold up english flags and god save the queen is being sung. Its impossible not to be deeply moved by the enduring gratitude of my fellow country men who was a british for granting a safety and sanctuary in the ninetys. I just wish the u. K. And europe were as humane and welcoming to those who are in prosecution they. Move. On the 8th of september 2020 a fire tore through the morea camp in the greek island of les was. Totally destroyed in. A disaster i feel would happen. Or. Will embrace one home. It was remarkable that no one died. But around 13000. 00 Asylum Seekers were left stranded. I thought surely now the e. U. Mustapha. You know imagine god forbid of my little daughter i want to go through some of the others. Were in the 21st century and were still allowing the this to happen in the middle of europe. Just shows was shameful. Tragically 6 weeks on the u. Has only agreed to relocate 400 unaccompanied minors between them. My beloved u. K. Is yes has an Office Actually 2 in the. Hello there is particularly cold air in this part of the u. S. And thats prompting these thunderstorms and snow behind and of course you got hurrican zita due to make landfall somewhere around the lower yes louisiana coast with the code of risk there with the goes in and stretching out towards d. C. Eventually another hurricane to hit louisiana coast yet a record breaking and where this pumps moisture and significance though seems likely in the texas panhandle in new mexico and quite possible but in oklahoma as well as the rain will be flash flood tide right as it do slowly northeast with the temps behind arising in denver having not even made it above freezing sunday and monday is up to 13 degrees that current position of z. Terrors is going across the yucatan and sitting over the water so behind it things are now much quiet is still showers youll notice in this part of mexico but dry picture in cuba and the Cayman Islands a good few showers in Central America where you might expect and for that i was we say goodbye to the hurrican again we watch a similar picture in Central America same is true in south america was brazil now seeing the thrust of those showers i think further east than they were before then particularly wet between salvador and rio. One week to go donald trump claims hes the best bets for the u. S. Economy as his rival for the presidency joe biden accuses him of surrendering to coronavirus. Im not matheson this is a disease a live from doha also coming up over 1000 cases rise again in europe as criticism grows over how some governments handling the pandemic. A Student Activist is arrested in hong kong near the u. S. Consulate reportedly trying to seek asylum