the plane went down shortly after taking off. the crew and passengers managed to get out only moments before the aircraft burst into flames. one person was sent to hospital with back injuries. a giant puppet of a syrian refugee girl has arrived in southeast england after a trip of some eight thousand kilometres. little amal as she s known set off from the the border of syria injuly, and travelled across europe, in a journey that symbolised the experiences of millions of displaced children. 0ur arts correspondent david silitto has been to see her, and has this report. little amal, a 3.5 metre tall puppet refugee, and. ..this is the beginning of the final leg of what has an 8,000 kilometre journey. there have been many stops across europe. it takes you back when you see the physical reaction that we re getting, but also she s amazingly evocative.
remarkable pictures there. a giant puppet of a syrian refugee girl has arrived in southeast england after a trip of some 8,000 kilometres. little amal as she s known let off from the the border of syria injuly, and travelled across europe, in a journey that symbolised the experiences of millions of displaced children. 0ur arts correspondent david silitto has been to see her, and has this report. little amal, a 3.5 metre tall puppet refugee, and. ..this is the beginning of the final leg of what has an 8,000 kilometre journey. there have been many stops across europe. it takes you back when you see the physical reaction that we re getting, but also she s amazingly evocative. so, she s doing herjob.
a refugee girl and she s going to read her ass but i didn t know how to read. all i could do was start or was it the hobby so of course all the kids started laughing at me again about a mac. i thought thank goodness my teacher realized what was going on. now and she started giving me private reading lessons one and i tell myself that those kids will never laugh at me again. integration can only succeed step by step from one person to another and it often starts with the youngest in society. these girls never experienced any of the tensions that marked the early stages of german unity they grew up as part of a more solid community. millions of displaced people and left behind everything they had the government did its best to help them start over. moved in together and if a team of integrating all the displaced persons was
friend of the court brief in support. that is a critical story. thank you both by the way. you re setting us up well for the big picture. we re also following vice president pence s trip overseas. a refugee girl with tears streaming down her face. she s one of the 700,000 rohingyas forced to flee because of ethnic cleansing. vice president pence delivered a fierce warning to the leader of myanmar saying her country s violence against that group is without excuse, pressing her to hold those responsible accountable. pence now becomes i think the senior most u.s. official to deliver that warning in person to myanmar s leader, critical stuff and a story we will continue to follow. the photographer here for afp via getty images. that does it for us for this hour of msnbc live. craig melvin takes the helm. i want to come back to you on your exclusive reporting. craig melvin at msnbc headquarters in new york city.