1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,000
Refugees are all those people who have been forced to free their country because of wars, persecution, human rights violations, inequality, poverty or climate change.

2
00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:22,000
All people feeling for their country are looking for a better life and a safer place, where there is peace and better opportunities.

3
00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:28,000
Currently Syria is the country in the world where the largest number of refugees comes from.

4
00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:44,679
Almost 5 million people have left the borders of a war that lasts more than six years. A conflict that was born with the intentions of overthrowing President Bashar al-Assad in a peaceful way and that has been taking things from another era.

5
00:00:44,679 --> 00:00:51,679
After exploding what was apparently a civil war between the Assad supporters and their opponents,

6
00:00:51,679 --> 00:00:59,679
the international conflict has been adding international actors who have been supported by different sides in their ways.

7
00:00:59,679 --> 00:01:10,680
The bombing by the USA in response to the chemical attack by the Syrian government is a new chapter in a conflict that seems to have no solutions.

8
00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:27,680
The Syrian crisis has become the biggest humanitarian emergency of our time. According to the High Commissioner of the UN for Refugees, the suffering of those who decide to go into exile does not end at the border but takes other forms.

9
00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:35,680
The cause of the exodus of the Syrian refugees is a revolution that continues to this day.

10
00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:41,680
Although this term is often used in reference to Syria, and we are referring to them today,

11
00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:45,680
the Syrians are not the only people who have had to flee their country.

12
00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:51,680
Millions of people from dozens of countries around the world today have refugee status.

13
00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:58,680
Since 2015, 65.3 million people have had to flee their homes.

14
00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:04,680
It is the worst refugee data since the World War II and the numbers are growing.

15
00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:12,680
There are currently nine humanitarian emergencies from which most of the refugees in the world come concentrated in two regions.

16
00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:17,680
In the Middle East, Syria, Iraq and Yemen.

17
00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:29,680
and Sub-Saharan Africa, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, Nigeria, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Mali.

18
00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:41,680
The main causes of segregation in Syria are, for conflict, 65 million people have been forced to leave their homes to persecution,

19
00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:45,680
conflicts which prove violence or violation of the human rights.

20
00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:50,680
Moreover, their extrinsic attitude to employment and work

21
00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:55,680
are forcing many Syrians to attempt jobs in precarious or exploitative conditions.

22
00:02:55,680 --> 00:03:01,680
Many children have left school to work and help the other families financially.

23
00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:04,680
The helps are increasingly more scarce.

24
00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:09,680
Humanitarian organizations have been responding to these emergencies

25
00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:16,680
of the Syrian exile. Over time, the funds to deal with the crisis have been increasing,

26
00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:21,680
while the needs of the refugees have been increasing. The lack of funds has forced them

27
00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:28,680
to reduce the food ratios and make difficult decisions about who to give help. More than

28
00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:38,680
More than half of the chronically ill people cannot have access to the medicines.

29
00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:44,680
Another cause is the little educational opportunities.

30
00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:55,680
The future of more than one million Syrian children has been left in limbo because of the difficulties they face in accessing the education system.

31
00:03:55,680 --> 00:04:16,120
Some school age children are not receiving formal education. And finally, the obstacles to renew residence permits. Refugees must pay $2,000 to renew their residence, permit an access to the asylum system and increasingly complete it for them.

32
00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:23,120
Many Syrians fear being arrested or detained and feel vulnerable because their visas have expired.

33
00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:35,120
After this brief introduction to the theme, today we are going to talk about one of the many routes the refugees who escaped from Syria take to get to Berlin.

34
00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:45,120
They go with the hope of having a better life and we will narrate the different phases of the trip,

35
00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:52,120
as well as the difficulties that a group of refugees who are no longer afraid of dying and risking their lives

36
00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:56,120
screaming from birds that are not often shipwrecked.

37
00:04:56,120 --> 00:05:03,120
This group of refugees has had to flee their country because of the war.

38
00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:08,120
Refugees are all those people who have been forced to flee their country.

39
00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:12,120
How refugees come and difficulties to travel to their destination.

40
00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:18,120
As there are no safe or legal ways to enter, they risk their lives and those of their families

41
00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:24,120
in search of a better future, far from the wars and poverty that forces them to flee.

42
00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:28,120
The journey by road doesn't take more than three hours,

43
00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:36,120
but sometimes the Syrians must wait for a long time until all the buses are full to travel by caravan.

44
00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:46,120
The only short way is to arrive by road to Lebanon and then by boat to the coast of Turkey and from there to Europe.

45
00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:51,120
The families pay a part for the ferry and another part for the mafias

46
00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:59,120
to plot them illegally in precarious boats from the darkest beaches to the Greek islands.

47
00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:03,120
So, the trip starts from Damascus, Syria.

48
00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:08,120
Here begins a long journey for thousands of Syrians fleeing the civil war

49
00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:13,120
that their country has been suffering for five years,

50
00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:17,120
where the Islamic State is gaining positions.

51
00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:26,300
They go to the rich European countries in search of a better life, without knowing very well what they are going to do in the future.

52
00:06:27,079 --> 00:06:33,279
Al-Hasak, Syria. It is another refugee outpost where they unit with refugees from Damascus.

53
00:06:33,759 --> 00:06:36,360
From there, they go to the border with Turkey.

54
00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:42,920
Al-Kakil, Turkey. It is the border city between Syria and Turkey, very close to Al-Hasak.

55
00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:52,920
It is one of the first steps outside of Syria and from this point they cross the whole country towards the port of Bodrum.

56
00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:56,920
Bodrum, Turkey. First stop of your journey.

57
00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:00,920
Once in Turkey, the refugees head to the port closest to Greece.

58
00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:06,920
It is an area of human trafficking, where refugees are disabled and robbed.

59
00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:13,920
From there they set sail for the small Greek island Kos to reach Athens.

60
00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:23,920
Kos, Greece. The refugees for the first time step on European territory. Kos is a very small Greek island, close to Tartus.

61
00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:31,920
Kos, Greece. The refugees for the first time step on European territory. Kos is a very small Greek island, close to Tartus.

62
00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:36,920
From there, they will be transferred to the capital Athens, Athens, Greece.

63
00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:44,920
Once arrived in Athens, the refugees have already reached their main objective, which is to reach Europe.

64
00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:54,920
Although, its journey continues towards the heart of Europe, where one of the richest countries that can ensure a better life.

65
00:07:54,920 --> 00:08:11,399
Eidomene, Greece. It is a border city between Greece and Macedonia. The refugees cross the borders on each direction of Serbia. There are crowds of people in the border as there is a lot of tension to cross it.

66
00:08:11,399 --> 00:08:20,319
After crossing the border with Greece, the police retrace their passage.

67
00:08:20,319 --> 00:08:27,540
The refugees go to Gjeverlinja, where they take a train that will take them crossing

68
00:08:27,540 --> 00:08:31,259
Macedonia to the border with Serbia.

69
00:08:31,259 --> 00:08:32,259
So Preservo Serbia.

70
00:08:32,259 --> 00:08:39,059
It is a city where refugees are transferred to a refugee camp, where they rest and recover

71
00:08:39,059 --> 00:08:47,059
their strength to follow the road, by balls or on foot, to Serbian capital, Belgrade, Serbia.

72
00:08:47,779 --> 00:08:54,980
They encounter traffickers who try to decide by telling them that the road is safe to take

73
00:08:54,980 --> 00:09:04,500
advantage of them, so from there they go to Hungary. Rostke, Hungary, borders Serbia. Many of them

74
00:09:04,500 --> 00:09:11,620
manage to cross it and continue on their way to Budapest, but others may die in the attempt

75
00:09:11,620 --> 00:09:20,740
either due to various causes such as hunger or fatigue. Budapest, Hungary. Once arrived in the

76
00:09:20,740 --> 00:09:28,100
Hungarian capital, the refugees are concentrated in the train station and go, decided by the

77
00:09:28,100 --> 00:09:34,820
Hungarian authorities to refugee camps resting in cities instead of heading to Austria.

78
00:09:35,620 --> 00:09:43,059
What is the next destination? Vienna, Austria. Many refugees drive to travel to Austria on foot.

79
00:09:44,259 --> 00:09:51,139
On the outskirts of Vienna, many of them camp in tents. Also, for many of them, Germany is the

80
00:09:51,139 --> 00:09:58,899
final destination some decide to stay so manage germany once in germany many of the refugees

81
00:09:58,899 --> 00:10:07,059
decide to stay in manage the first important city of the country there they receive a very good

82
00:10:07,059 --> 00:10:15,059
reception with the germans in refugee camps very well prepared to welcome them berlin germany

83
00:10:15,059 --> 00:10:21,620
is the final destination of most refugees. They have reached their final goal and here they will

84
00:10:21,620 --> 00:10:29,299
try a better life away from their homes and from work. The massive reception of refugees overflows

85
00:10:29,299 --> 00:10:36,100
the resources of the German capital. Once refugees arrive in Berlin they have to live for months in

86
00:10:36,100 --> 00:10:42,500
emergency centers with no option to a house. Thousands of asylum seekers must reside in

87
00:10:42,500 --> 00:10:49,220
improvised facilities as the administration doesn't care to find them accommodation an example

88
00:10:49,220 --> 00:10:57,620
the turani family was forced to live in a shelter with many others asylum seekers others are in a

89
00:10:57,620 --> 00:11:04,820
house that they will have to leave because the berlin administration paid rent for apartment

90
00:11:04,820 --> 00:11:15,379
to some refugees who didn't have a place in the authorised shelter but due to a new law,

91
00:11:15,379 --> 00:11:21,700
eight months after their arrival in Germany, they are forced to live in emergency facilities.

92
00:11:21,700 --> 00:11:28,659
As a result, thousands of refugees see as the only option to reside in hostels,

93
00:11:28,659 --> 00:11:37,460
sport courts abandoned airports and abandoned malls although these spaces were born as temporary

94
00:11:37,460 --> 00:11:44,580
residents they have end up being the usual home for thousands of them the year the emergency

95
00:11:44,580 --> 00:11:51,460
shelters are designed for the first three months after arrival the german media have reported

96
00:11:51,460 --> 00:11:57,700
fights rapes abuses and other problems of coexistence in emergency shelters the

97
00:11:57,700 --> 00:12:05,620
The mixture of nationalities, sex and ages together with the narrowness and fatigue have

98
00:12:05,620 --> 00:12:12,139
made confrontations in these places habitual.

99
00:12:12,139 --> 00:12:19,559
There have been also allegations of ill-treatments by security personnel.

100
00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:25,820
According to the law, the municipalities and the federal states must be in charge of providing

101
00:12:25,820 --> 00:12:32,600
refugees with basic necessities while their request is processed, which may last several

102
00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:33,600
months.

103
00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:39,820
Other types of permits have begun to be set up, from all these useless shopping centres

104
00:12:39,820 --> 00:12:45,120
to army barracks without current employment and abandoned schools.

105
00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:53,820
The problem many Germans have felt upset is because children were almost a year without

106
00:12:53,820 --> 00:13:00,860
being able to train in their usual sports centers because it was converted into temporary soldiers

107
00:13:00,860 --> 00:13:09,340
for refugees and that many other older people felt shitty because they said that when they

108
00:13:09,340 --> 00:13:18,539
ask for money because they don't have a lot or to raise pension pensions they are told that

109
00:13:18,539 --> 00:13:28,299
they are told that there is no left and then when the refugees come there is all the money they need

110
00:13:28,299 --> 00:13:37,259
for the necessary for their basic necessities a mobilization in favor of refugees sylvia

111
00:13:37,259 --> 00:13:44,460
calls their spoke person for the social affairs office says that every refugee who sees himself

112
00:13:44,460 --> 00:13:48,860
without accommodation receives a covered place to sleep in.

113
00:13:48,860 --> 00:13:53,899
Insist, there are places available in shelters and emergency

114
00:13:53,899 --> 00:13:57,179
centers and no refugees has to sleep outside.

115
00:13:57,179 --> 00:14:01,340
Integration. One of the first thing refugees have to do

116
00:14:01,340 --> 00:14:06,059
is to learn German. In this sense they are given access

117
00:14:06,059 --> 00:14:12,379
to courses so that they can learn German and can integrate into life

118
00:14:12,379 --> 00:14:21,580
and into the labor market some germans often offer their helps by working as german teachers

119
00:14:21,580 --> 00:14:29,179
for refugees the german ngo refugees voice tours turns refugees into tour guides

120
00:14:31,179 --> 00:14:38,779
which explain their experience during the conflict and the stream lines their integration

121
00:14:38,779 --> 00:14:44,860
find a friend is another initiative that allows refugees to find a flat and work it is about

122
00:14:44,860 --> 00:14:53,100
putting refugees in contact with germans so that they have a friend with whom to go out and stay

123
00:14:53,100 --> 00:14:57,659
and whom they can consult when looking for a flat or accessing the labor market

124
00:14:59,100 --> 00:15:06,220
many germans distribute food water and donate toys and clothes and furnitures

125
00:15:06,220 --> 00:15:13,879
and kitchen utensils to the refugees at the first reception center in Gallup.

126
00:15:13,879 --> 00:15:20,820
In Berlin, two literary language teachers who live in the surroundings have returned

127
00:15:20,820 --> 00:15:25,399
to the book to help out.

128
00:15:25,399 --> 00:15:29,980
Once refugees arrive in Berlin, they have to live for months in emergency centers with

129
00:15:29,980 --> 00:15:31,980
no option to a house.

130
00:15:31,980 --> 00:15:40,480
Thousands of asylum seekers must reside in improvised facilities as the administration doesn't care to find them accommodation.

131
00:15:40,980 --> 00:15:44,980
Now that we are here in Berlin, everything seems to have finished.

132
00:15:44,980 --> 00:15:47,480
Everything seems to be easy and to be good.

133
00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:51,980
But for most of the refugees, all over the world, there's something hard to go through missing.

134
00:15:51,980 --> 00:15:53,480
And this is disrespect.

135
00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:57,480
All the hate and the offences they receive by people.

136
00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:00,480
But here in Berlin, things are somehow easier.

137
00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:05,759
here most of the people and the government whose opinion is very important agreed that refugees

138
00:16:05,759 --> 00:16:11,919
should be welcomed in their country something that happened in germany was that 48 hours

139
00:16:11,919 --> 00:16:17,759
after the violent protests of neonatic groups against a refugee center berlin made an

140
00:16:17,759 --> 00:16:23,600
announcement for tons of thousands of syrian refugees germany resting to their legal right

141
00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:28,879
to send refugees back to the countries they've acceded through the european union to get there

142
00:16:28,879 --> 00:16:35,480
to Berlin and in Berlin and in Germany in general they granted them political

143
00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:40,899
asylum and residence permits but there's something not all Germans are up in

144
00:16:40,899 --> 00:16:46,120
arms about the refugee situation due to this some people hosted migrants who are

145
00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:50,360
slayed to be deported in their houses giving them financial assistance and

146
00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:55,460
helping them out fill their paperwork the number of refugees in entire in the

147
00:16:55,460 --> 00:17:03,899
entire Germany is 800,000, which is the 1% of the total population in Germany.

148
00:17:03,899 --> 00:17:09,140
Germany is the most frequent destination from the vast majority of the thousands of people

149
00:17:09,140 --> 00:17:15,779
who are trying to access the European Union, from Syria, but also from Iraq, the Balkans,

150
00:17:15,779 --> 00:17:19,700
Libya, Antigua and Afghanistan.

151
00:17:19,700 --> 00:17:25,140
Some of the reasons why Germany is a very chosen destination by refugees is because

152
00:17:25,140 --> 00:17:30,259
of the economic capacity of the country, which is advancing at a good pace and creating a

153
00:17:30,259 --> 00:17:36,200
constant rate of employment, which means there is almost enough employment for everyone.

154
00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:41,319
Other reason is the constitution, which was written keeping in mind the horrors of the

155
00:17:41,319 --> 00:17:47,460
Nazi regime and the World War I in mind, which underlines that human dignity is untouchable

156
00:17:47,460 --> 00:17:51,220
and has one of the clearest and most generous asylum.

157
00:17:51,220 --> 00:17:54,960
In our opinion, going to Germany is one of the best options.

158
00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:59,460
Apart from their economical benefits, one of the most important factors is the behaviour

159
00:17:59,460 --> 00:18:01,779
of the inhabitants and the government.

160
00:18:01,779 --> 00:18:05,859
They respect refugees no matter the conditions in which they come.

161
00:18:05,859 --> 00:18:11,140
They take into account the fact that not all refugees, actually the majority, come here

162
00:18:11,140 --> 00:18:16,700
with bad intentions and the ones that act badly is because they aren't given any resources

163
00:18:16,700 --> 00:18:22,740
and they have to live from stealing or selling illegal stuff but these people don't come

164
00:18:22,740 --> 00:18:27,920
here with bad intentions so we shouldn't treat them like if they actually did. Refugees are

165
00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:33,299
also people. The only difference is that they are not even able to live in good conditions

166
00:18:33,299 --> 00:18:37,700
and they don't have enough resources. Their homes are being bombed and us who compared

167
00:18:37,700 --> 00:18:42,680
to their lives have a perfect one, if we were in the same conditions we would be the first

168
00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:47,160
to leave our countries. We will be the first to leave our countries, our home, and that

169
00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:52,180
needs sacrifices we can't even imagine doing. People often see them as a threat, but as

170
00:18:52,180 --> 00:18:59,019
I said before, this depends on the situation and somehow depends on us. Just empathise,

171
00:18:59,019 --> 00:19:04,319
get on the situation. Imagine you have to leave your country, imagine your home is being

172
00:19:04,319 --> 00:19:09,680
bombed, imagine you have no food, and it is not just you the one that have no food. Babies

173
00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:15,759
have no food kids and old people have no food they don't have a place to sleep or protect their

174
00:19:15,759 --> 00:19:21,839
family and their themselves but another country just visualize the trip you and your loved ones

175
00:19:21,839 --> 00:19:27,920
have to do it'll be hard not everyone will be able to get to the end and this just for getting into

176
00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:34,000
a country in which they had amazing expectations and expectaties but everything is still hard to

177
00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:40,319
achieve and they can be even returned back to the country of origin. All this for nothing.

178
00:19:40,319 --> 00:19:47,359
Habitants there see them as a threat, as an enemy. Refugees are afraid of going to the streets because

179
00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:52,960
there will be people that won't see them as a person. They won't care about all what they have

180
00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:58,640
and will suffer. Sometimes things are just politically better and nothing is according

181
00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:05,519
to their expectations. To conclude, refugees are regular people who have suffered and are actually

182
00:20:05,519 --> 00:20:11,440
stronger and braver than people who question them. They have lost their home, maybe someone they

183
00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:17,279
loved, and they have to travel thousands of kilometers just for some kind of disability,

184
00:20:17,279 --> 00:20:26,079
whether economic or another one. Now that we are here in Berlin, everything seems to have finished.

185
00:20:26,079 --> 00:20:30,160
everything seems to be easy and to be good but for most of the refugees all

186
00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:32,880
over the world there's something hard to go through missing

187
00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:38,400
and this is disrespect all the hate they and the offenses they receive by people

188
00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,519
but here in berlin things are somehow easier

189
00:20:41,519 --> 00:20:44,720
here most of the people and the government whose opinion is

190
00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:49,119
very important agreed that refugees should be welcomed in their country

191
00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:54,640
something that happened in germany was that 48 hours after the violent protests