Young and old, they seek to escape poverty, violence and injustice. But the individual stories of refugees rarely get told. Instead they often become an anonymous abstraction. The number of refugees globally has almost doubled since 2012 to about 80 million. The majority of these people are displaced in their own countries. Very few of their stories ever make it into the public domain. But in the rare cases when it happens, they have a powerful effect. None more so than the tragic fate of 3yearold alan kurdi. The tragic exodus of the kurdi family ended at this beach near the turkish village of akyarlar. The mother, father, and their two children, were trying to reach the greek island of kos in a rububber boat. [rushihing waves] but ththe boat capsized. Little alan, hisis brother, ghalib, antheir r mother rehanna drowned. Only abdullah kururdi survive. The boat capsized after people stood up. I held my wifes hand. We had l life jackets and d td to keep our children out of the water, but
Young and old, they seek to escape poverty, violence and injustice. But the individual stories of refugees rarely get told. Instead they often become an anonymous abstraction. The number of refugees globally has almost doubled since 2012 to about 80 million. The majority of these people are displaced in their own countries. Very few of their stories ever make it into the public domain. But in the rare cases when it happens, they have a powerful effect. None more so than the tragic fate of 3yearold alan kurdi. The tragic exodus of the kurdi family ended at this beach near the turkish village of akyarlar. The mother, father, and their two children, were trying to reach the greek island of kos in a rububber boat. [rushihing waves] but ththe boat capsized. Little alan, hisis brother, ghalib, antheir r mother rehanna drowned. Only abdullah kururdi survive. The boat capsized after people stood up. I held my wifes hand. We had l life jackets and d td to keep our children out of the water, but
Young and old, they seek to escape poverty, violence and injustice. But the individual stories of refugees rarely get told. Instead they often become an anonymous abstraction. The number of refugees globally has almost doubled since 2012 to about 80 million. The majority of these people are displaced in their own countries. Very few of their stories ever make it into the public domain. But in the rare cases when it happens, they have a powerful effect. None more so than the tragic fate of 3yearold alan kurdi. The tragic exodus of the kurdi family ended at this beach near the turkish village of akyarlar. The mother, father, and their two children, were trying to reach the greek island of kos in a rububber boat. [rushihing waves] but ththe boat capsized. Little alan, hisis brother, ghalib, antheir r mother rehanna drowned. Only abdullah kururdi survive. The boat capsized after people stood up. I held my wifes hand. We had l life jackets and d td to keep our children out of the water, but
Nick spicer welcome to the program the Ukrainian Government and russian backed separatists have completed a major Prisoner Exchange among those released captives held by both sides since hostilities broke out in 2014 the swap follows an agreement russia and ukraine reached earlier this month in talks brokered by germany and france. Home for the new year dozens of joyful reunion splayed out on the quay of airports tamaki many of the captives hadnt same friends or family for years on hand a visibly moved president flow to me is a lengthy hey great to the exchange during talks with Russias Vladimir Putin earlier this month. As we deliver on our promises to each so these people will celebrate new year with their loved ones with their parents and children at home just each night. And this is the moment prisoners were frayed earlier on sunday russian backed separatists late ukrainian prisoners go at a checkpoint in the countrys aist the men were lined up to be collected by the red cross for
To world news today. Greeces leftist Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, has conceded victory to the centre right opposition, following a snap election. Mr tsipras has called the new democracy leader, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, to congratulate him. Vote counting is under way, but Greek Interior Ministry projections suggest 39. 8 support for the new Democracy Party, with mr tsiprass populist left wing syriza party trailing on 31. 5 . Mr mitsotakis spoke a short time ago. First of all i asked for a strong mandate to change the country. And the greek people delivered and i am very grateful for the result. We won an outright majority which was our main target. Almost reached 40 which is an incredible number given the context of a fragmented Political Landscape and i feel i have a strong mandate to deliver on my agenda which is an agenda to grow the economy, create morejobs but also to make sure the greek people feel safe again. So what is this getting reaction in terms of this streets of athens . A