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The hospital in Kabul is in the city centre,

so it's close to many embassies and many, let's say, targets.

You go out to work and you say goodbye

and you are really not a hundred percent sure that you're going back.

Yesterday, around 08:20,

there was a huge blast that occurred in the vicinity of our hospital in Kabul.

I was sitting at my desk when the explosion happened.

The blast wave blew off my window.

The shrapnel travelled half a kilometre.

We removed even pieces that are the size of my palm.

Immediately comes in your mind security.

Where are the others? What they are doing. Who is where.

I grabbed the radio and I call,

"All falcons, all falcons, remain inside."

That is crucial in this moment that nobody goes in the open space

where still some shells could be landing, impacting,

and usually followed by a ground fight between the two sides that are fighting.

Immediately we have to prepare for reception of a large number of patients.

Mass casualties like this, I think all of us react differently.

The bomb is the bomb.

Bomb, boom, it's finished. Bomb exploded. I'm alive.

Perfecto, no problem, nothing will happen anymore.

I have just to deal with the patients.

And very shortly, first patients start arriving all covered in blood.

Some of them walking, some of them carried.

We had 100 people in 10-15 minutes just flooding the garden.

This garden that you see here was full of patients,

full of mattresses, full of blood.

This area was covered completely with blood.

We don't have the capacity, no one has, to admit 100 patients in the same time.

When you receive ten or 20 or 30 patients all together,

you have to choose who is going first in a bunch of people that is...

all of them, they are not exactly feeling nice.

Always you ask yourself, "Could I do it better?"

"Could I do it faster?"

"Could somebody have a chance if I would triage him in a better way?"

But, you know, this is some decisions that all of us have to live with after.

We cannot save everybody.

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We try to do our best for the wellbeing of these people that are in great need

of our assistance.

Most of the people involved are not soldiers, are civilians.

For the ones who want the war, they are collateral damages,

but for us are not, for us, are humans.

It's a kind of fight against war, the one that we are doing.

At the end, we closed the day with 76 of them admitted inside the hospital.

Eleven of them died.

By numbers, this was the largest mass casualty that we'd seen in years.

It was brutal.

I mean, it was really, really something that none of us experienced.

Even for us that are several years around here.

I never thought that I saw it all, and I never think in this way,

but still, some events can really surprise us.

And all of us were very, very scared.

It was a terrible day.

Is everything OK?

Our last patient goes by the name of Ahmed, 20 years old, male, for a CT.

He had a bullet injury to the left eye, in and out.

And right in and out, one hour before arrival.

Yes, now I check again, but...

Myself, Dejan,

we are here since a long time.

All the other team is all completely new.

Filippo is here since four months.

For the moment, they are holding.

You're not working with 50 international nurses, well prepared.

You are working also with some national staff that is new,

that doesn't speak good English.

Then you start to use drugs that in Europe you call in other names.

So, it's not easy.

So, the first six months, you are just like, whoa!

Like in a box, and somebody's playing with it.

In the early days, I was feeling very insecure

because I wanted to do better, and I was feeling like I was not good enough.

I felt like I was not able to do the best because I was not prepared enough.

For the people that are coming for the first time,

I say doing a mission in Afghanistan changes you as a person.

You don't become better, you don't become worse, but you become different.

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[crowd screaming]

All this violence...

born somewhere.

Born from the war.

You feel the violence inside the hospital.

It's getting better a little bit.

How many patients waiting for OT? One?

Is he bleeding? Is he fine?

No, he's fine.

They will call him soon. So just one is waiting for OT.

You two arrive. Push him up, up, up, up.

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[crowd screaming]

We need one of you in PD

because we are going to do a CT scan for a child.

One, two,

three.

OK, 93.93.

The father say explosion, yesterday in Tajar Provence.

But not with ambulances and doctors on board,

they arrived in the trunk of the car of the father.

Without oxygen, without fluids.

So, now we don't know if this low level of consciousness

is due to a head trauma or just because he's severely dehydrated.

Go to ICU. ICU, ICU.

Give to OPD.

Yes, he is the father?

- What was that? - They're shooting.

Maybe they're just shooting.

Tell him that we did the CT scan.

OK. Now we will give antibiotics,

we will give blood, we will give oxygen.

No, no, not to worry.

No!

Please.

The mass casualties, in general, are strong events.

I think I remember all of them.

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Bleeding or...

without pieces of face.

What I tried to give to all of our patients

was some empathy and understanding.

I'm still with them.

On their side, on the...

On the innocent people's side.

Big mess. Big mess.

I never allowed myself to be this weak

when I was in ward or when I was in emergency room.

So I guess that's why now I crack very easily when I think about it.

Because... sorry.

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[indistinct shouting]

We all know this when we are coming here,

but then you don't know even how you react

until you are in this situation.

Security is an imaginary word.

How to stay safe in Afghanistan? Don't come to Afghanistan.

Yes, we received 15 persons, one-five.

Five were minor injuries.

They have been treated in the emergency room and sent home.

Five people died.

Have a nice day.

Bye. Bye.

Journalist.

Several people are reported dead and injured in Kabul

after police clashed with demonstrators

denouncing the rising tide of violence in Afghanistan.

Hundreds marched in the wake

of this week's devastating truck bomb attack.

Most of the victims were civilians.

They say that when you touch the blood of a person, it becomes your nation.

I've touched enough Afghan blood to feel a little bit part of the country.

Maybe tonight under the shower, I will cry, but, tomorrow...

I'm not leaving.

Of course, my family at home,

my mother she's already, like, creating a campaign to bring me home.

Collection of the signatures. "Bring Giorgia home."

And so, I know that they are worried.

The job is really taking you.

I mean, you work eight hours, ten hours and you don't realise.

You say, "Why is it dark?" And you say, "Oh my God!"

Working and living in such a condition as we do,

and it's really, really peculiar in the house, always with other people.

No, no problem.

- Let's bake a cake. - Let's bake a cake.

Filippo cannot come home without a cake.

Sometimes it's difficult. I mean, you don't always like everybody.

You don't necessarily become friend to everybody.

But that's the cool part. When you do become friends,

when you do like each other, it's great.

And some of my best friends now I've met in missions.

Because we live together, we work together,

we spend all of our time together, in good and bad.

I think that it's amazing how people can get close.

You really know people because you share everything.

If you're lucky, there is a wonderful environment.

Oh, doggies. Cher, Fluffy!

The dogs of war.

Today was a peaceful protest and we received 15 wounded

and five of them dead.

We do war surgery. When war comes banging on your doors,

is it fair to pack up and just leave?

Kind of hypocritical, no?

We will continue our work here.

For now.

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Six years ago, I was so bored, so unsatisfied. And I had everything.

Good car, I have a house.

I just believed that I needed a change.

After my first mission, I was back in Italy,

I went to take my car from the parking

and I found out that somebody broke the mirror.

And I said, "OK. OK."

And it was a friend of mine like, "Wow, what is this kind of reaction?"

I say, "You know, sometimes, you have to change your perspective."

"It's not a big issue."

Before, I had everything and I was complaining.

Now I only have three shirts, two pants, and I'm fine.

It's about perspective.

I met Giacomo, that is my boyfriend,

when I was in my second mission in Afghanistan.

We got to know each other, and he received a proposal to come to Iraq,

so we decided to continue our missions together.

We are assisting people that are escaping from war zones.

It's my first experience in a refugee camp,

and I have been now here since one year.

After Kabul, after all the Afghanistan conflict,

I've seen the first stage of the war, you know, the sound, the bullet.

Here I'm seeing the war from far.

That was the security of the camp.

That is Al-Sayesh. That is a special department of the police.

The gate is open so there is freedom of movement, but they are there to check.

And there is also a police station inside the camp in case of problems.

It's nice not to hear explosions, not to hear shooting.

There are wars going on all around, more or less, but not here.

Some of them, they escaped from direct war.

Some of them, they escaped before the war came.

But still they are escaping from war.

In this camp, there are IDP and refugees.

Refugees, they cross a border.

We are close to Sulaimaniya.

The operations started with a flow of Syrian people, running away from ISIS.

In the country, there are around 250,000 Syrian refugees.

The Syrian refugees, as far as I understood,

didn't escape direct fighting in the beginning.

But they escaped because they understood it was coming.

IDP means internally displaced people.

Somebody from the same country that moved from one place to another one.

So, Iraqi population that have had to leave their houses

in order to be safe from the fighting.

These people started to run away from their houses

as soon as ISIS entered in the country.

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Civilians are affected so much.

You are not a soldier.

You are a kid, you are a father, a mother.

Once, the war was two armies in a field.

But now the war field is the globe. Everywhere.

Imagine that you have maybe 20 minutes to say,

"OK, let's take what we can and let's start to run."

You don't even know when you are going back.

So we decided to enter in the camp especially

because, these people, they have lost everything.

They have no means to live.

The ones that are not able to survive, unless somebody's taking care of them.

I am head nurse for this clinic and I am coordinating the national staff.

I always enjoyed, since the beginning, working with Murad.

All the staff, nationals and internationals,

are like my brothers and my sisters.

He's a very good logistician for us. He has a good sense of humour.

Where are you? We cannot survive without you. Where are you?

What do you want me to do?

Stay here. I will put you in a handcuff.

We always try to help the people.

We work as a good team together.

If there is space, eventually we put also the child with her.

OK.

He's so strong that he found a good job with Emergency,

even living inside a camp,

and that he's trying to give himself and his family all the dignity possible.

That's totally amazing for me.

But, knowing him a little bit, I can see everything is not shining.

His life here is not what he wants, for himself, for his family.

Almost all of the people feel like this is a temporary solution.

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In the camp, the number of children is really, really high.

We estimate that 50 percent of the population of the camp are under 13.

This facility we are in is for primary health care.

We are working as a family doctor would do, for the population of this camp.

It's not war surgery. But it's war-related health care.

This clinic is pretty massive.

Because we are in a camp of 16-18,000 people.

No, thanks, thank you.

Weekly now, we are seeing 1,500 patients.

Usually we are here by eight o'clock,

and the patients are already outside waiting for us.

We manage, all the day, like traffic police.

Managing patients, managing referrals, managing movements.

Yes.

Here in this environment, everything can be a problem.

These people are very close to each other

so epidemics are spreading out very easily.

Because if I get sick,

my family will have the same because we are living in a very narrow tent,

a few metres squared, so it's pretty easy to get sick.

This is a massive amount of people in a small space.

Most of the people here live six to eight in a tent,

three by four metres squared with a small toilet and a small kitchen.

This is supposed to be temporary for them.

But they are here since long time.

People that have been here one year, one year and a half, two years.

Most of the men cannot work.

Most of the women are staying home with the children.

But the children are a lot.

Children always find a way to get some fun.

That's the beautiful thing of being a child, I guess.

You see the positive, you look for fun.

For adults, I really think it's much more difficult.

They get worried for themselves, for their children,

for their parents.

And you have to live there. And that is it.

It's not a normal life.

It's acceptable, it's not normal.

There is a huge difference between acceptable and normal.

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Everybody wants to go home

at the end of the day, but it depends if you're safe.

And it is very difficult, I think, for a Western country to understand.

Until there is security, there is safety, they are not moving.

You go back in the city that has been reconquered,

you are still not safe, you need clearance of mines.

Some cities that have been liberated here in Iraq, one is Tikrit,

it took more than eight months to clear the area from all the IED

that were left, inside the fridge...

You open your shop, it's incredible.

They are not safe.

And they told me that in 1995, I think,

there were almost 15 million mines in the country.

Everybody can be affected because the mine fields

most of the time are unknown.

You are a farmer, you go to your field...

then you lose a leg.

Amputation became kind of normal after a while.

Children are particularly hard to digest.

I clearly remember some children,

because when they arrive and they are, as we say, they are completely innocent.

I remember a girl that got a bilateral amputation.

She arrived already with a traumatic amputation,

so the legs were absent above the knees.

Then a part of how...

a part of the condition in which the patients arrive,

which are sometimes like this, very, very strong.

And they... they hit you.

But then what is also very hard

is how they face the consequences of their trauma.

It's not because of how I was shocked when this girl came,

it's how I got slowly, slowly suffering seeing her.

Because that would have been her life forever.

So she was really struggling. Sorry.

I didn't realise how lucky I was.

That I know I was born in the right place in the world.

I could go outside without being scared of getting shot or stepping on a mine.

This is not the first war. This is not the first case.

This is not the first time somebody is putting a mine. But why?

Why are we still doing it? What's the point?

And this is a very difficult question.

People should not be accidentally involved in any kind of war.

It's not their war anyway.

Sometimes they think it's easier to start a war than to find a compromise.

When you step on a mine, you cannot be as you were before.

So the prosthesis centre was the logical next step to say,

"OK, now we try to give you a second chance."

There was no prosthesis centre in the country, so we started one.

Life will be different, but you will be alive.

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She was two years old.

The cause of the injury was a mine

in front of the tent that they lived,

because they are shepherds, they have sheep.

And she stepped on the mine

and the mine exploded.

And killed her father and mother.

We all liked her and everybody wants to help her

and to encourage her for the training and the prosthesis.

After some days of training, she got them and was very good.

The vocational training was the next step.

Before you were a farmer,

now you cannot be a farmer anymore with the prosthesis.

So learn a new job that you can do with your disability.

With this job, you can provide to your family.

And you start a new activity, a small business.

And very few failed.

Because these people that are having a second chance

are not going to burn it.

Some of them are working with us in the rehab.

They were patients and now they are part of our staff.

We are not changing the war, we are not changing the system, but we are trying.

We are not going to leave until there is a no need to stay here.

I know Murad very well. He has children, a wife...

and he's living in a tent.

After a while, I think... I ask to myself is this my life?

Can I change something?

I think you start to check all the possibility you have.

Their option is to stay here until their place will be safe

or to move on.

I mean, you cannot live in a camp forever, I think.

The few that would like to go to Europe,

I think because they don't see any other real options.

It's a difficult road to go through Europe.

You have to cross a lot of countries.

The official way, stopping at checkpoints, security clearance,

Then you can be rejected.

So, you have to do it illegally.

Even if you do get to Europe,

nobody is going to wait for you, open arms, and hug you. Nobody.

When Murad started talking about this,

about trying to arrive to Europe, somehow, I was so scared.

Because for me, he's a friend, he's not only a colleague.

I don't blame him if he tries to go to Europe,

even through illegal and dangerous ways.

Because here he feels like he doesn't have a future.

How could I tell him, "No, don't go." I cannot tell him that.

What I can tell him is think properly about what you are doing

because it might be very, very difficult.

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[dramatic music]

Emergency decided to help immigrants passing through the Mediterranean Sea.

Many are dying, for many years, so...

We are doing the medical support, medical activities

as a part of the search and rescue missions in the Mediterranean.

I had a great job, I mean, I earned a lot of money,

but I left my comfortable life. I was looking for something more.

A comfortable life, to me, is not enough.

I just wanted to put my knowledge

available for people who really need it.

I was born and raised in Belgrade.

I was ten years old when the war started in Serbia.

I've felt the not having and the misery.

I believe that seeing all that pushed me to do what I'm doing.

Every human being is born equal

and has the right for health care and social care.

Because we're equal.

So, this is the route that we are going to follow.

So, this is about 15 miles off from the coast of Libya.

We do not enter into the Libyan territorial water.

Mostly it starts four o'clock in the morning,

and noon time usually less, less chances of getting any migrant boats.

Always a standby on radar.

So, this is usually our first point of detection.

And there will be echoes off Libya.

Then we suspect this could be a migrant boat.

Then we observe and come close.

Topaz Responder. Topaz Responder for Sea-Eye. Please come in.

Sea-Eye, Sea-Eye, Topaz Responder.

Yeah, we move a bit further down south.

And then turn to the east and make a circle and come back,

after maybe 20 miles or something.

Copy that, over.

[waves crashing]

I come across loads of different types of boats.

Every boat is not designed to take that amount of people.

They don't pass any survey tests or anything like that.

We've come across wooden boats that carried 600 people.

The worst thing that could happen is when you get a shift of people

from one side to the other,

or the dinghy's not even branded; they're just, like, imitations.

They can easily puncture themselves or burst. Very risky.

We start our watch at five in the morning.

And we all take an hour.

We come up and look over the water, to the coast.

At the moment, we're about 17 miles off the coast of Libya.

They leave very early in the morning, about two o'clock,

so they do about four knots.

This is the time that we usually intercept them.

A wooden boat.

When they put them on the boat,

to put them all, they beat them up to fill the boat as much as possible.

With their guns, they tell them, "Go in, go in, go in."

Otherwise they just kill them. Boom. If they refuse, they just shoot them.

A packet of water could take the space of a person,

so a smuggler would prefer to put a person,

get the money for that person,

than provide them with water.

So you can imagine if a rubber dinghy does more than 24 hours out at sea,

it could be fatal.

Some of these people, who have been five days out in the sea,

drinking salt water...

It's a very subtle line between life and death.

We cannot pass through, otherwise Libyans would attack us.

That's why we try to be as close as possible to the border

because the closer we are, the less time they do on these boats,

the more chances that they will survive.

- I can see it visually. - Where? Is it dead ahead?

Dead ahead, a little to port side.

We are waiting, at the same time,

we're surveilling on the radar to see what it's going to do.

They're still in Libyan waters.

We can't really do much to proceed to that position.

The one who drives the boat is just the poorest,

the one who could not pay for the travel,

so, they give him the boat and say just start the engine and go that way.

So the one big danger is that they just start turning around.

So they stay days turning around before reaching our patrolling zone,

where we can help them.

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The only thing we can guess is just they sank, probably.

And I guess all those people have died.

It's only a few miles, you know.

But that's what I see every day, so that's it.

Some of them make it, some of them. We don't know how many lost their lives.

That's why we're here.

It's gonna have to be quick, guys.

As a doctor, I go in the first line

to see if there is any medical emergencies on the boat.

[dramatic music]

Is that one?

Is that...?

OK.

If it's a wooden boat, it's a little more dangerous

because if they hit our ship, they would sink.

They're a bit scared because they don't recognise us

from the Libyan authorities.

The first thing we have to do is to calm them down

because if they start moving, they might harm themselves.

Most of them cannot swim.

So we throw them the life floats

until each of them has one of it.

If the situation and the sea is sufficiently safe,

we get very close to the boat and start boarding the vulnerable people,

generally babies, children and women.

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Everybody is OK?

- Everybody's fine? - No problem, yes.

- The babies are OK? - OK.

How many babies are on?

- Ten, eight? - I don't know. Eight.

They are very lucky, these people.

As a father, to put your kid on a boat

without knowing what's going to happen on the crossing is...

It's a big step.

My youngest daughter's not allowed at the end of the street.

There's something really strong pushing them.

They were telling us these stories like keeping them in inhuman conditions.

Not giving them enough food.

More paracetamol, IV.

- And IV and glucose five percent. - IV? Glucose five percent?

- What is your name? - My name is...

There was one story that was quite disturbing.

Like they would tie the phone on his cheek

close to his mouth,

and they would call the parents of his

and they were beating him so their parents would listen, that one.

Come on, now you are safe. OK? We are friends.

OK? You can cry, it's OK.

And they were asking a certain amount of money

and that was going on for months; some of them said even years,

because the poor people, they could not have the possibility

to collect the money to release him

to give him the possibility to get on this rubber boat

and travel to his freedom, to Europe, to better life.

The nurse is coming and giving you sugar in your blood,

so you will get strength, and a painkiller.

It's OK, it's OK.

They have been beaten and tortured and they have been suffering so much

that just a smile or somebody caring for them is almost unbearable, you know.

OK. I'll see you.

I don't know if I would have survived such a thing.

That makes a difference and gives me the strength to say,

"Yes, I want to help these people."

I started fighting with him

because he wanted to take advantage of me, and I told him no.

He called me bad names. He hit me.

"Drink something." They'd force you to drink, sleep with them.

- So this happened for two years? - Yes.

- For two years. - But I fought back.

I can't believe I'm away from those people.

I just hope everything will work out for me.

That's my prayer.

I just feel like this is a dream, I have not woken up.

[waves crashing]

[suspenseful music]

- So, we have two rubber boats? - Two rubber boats.

We've been tasked to proceed and we're going to carry out the rescue

- in a few moments. - We have four.

- Now, we have four. - Four boats?

I wouldn't say it's a normal operation because...

all operations can go wrong.

We just want to get these people off the boat

in a safe way as quick as possible

because we cannot imagine the danger they're in.

So, until I see the last person...

board the boat, then I can say it was a job well done.

No push! Don't move!

It's fully packed.

One hundred and thirty-one.

No space!

You will be safe on the ship.

Only one. You, you, you.

One man, one vest.

Rope it off. Rope it off.

Have to calm down.

Don't move. Don't move.

Wait! Wait! Wait!

Let's remove the jacket. You're fine, don't worry.

Let's remove the jacket. Come here, please.

- OK. - Give me that.

- In line. Hello, it's fine. - You're safe now.

One behind each other.

It's fine. Slowly, slowly. One behind each other.

How you arrived... You stay there.

[soft music]

Stay one beside each other, please.

- Come! - Wait, wait, wait!

What's your name? You speak English?

[soft music]

OK, you're safe now. OK? OK.

OK.

It's OK. You're safe now. It's finished.

[heavy breathing]

Come here. Come here. It's all fine.

- Don't worry. Welcome. - Go ahead.

Let's remove... No, no, no. You have to stay behind. In line.

Remove the jackets, after... Wait. Wait, wait, wait.

Girls, after, after, please.

Don't worry, you're safe now.

Come with me, bring her here.

- Alberto, you can check her. - You get ready for search. OK.

- It's all fine. Don't worry. - It's OK.

- What is your name? - Shameema.

- Shameema, OK. - How old are you, Shameema?

- Thirty. - How do you feel? What do you feel?

- You will feel better soon, OK? - We are overcrowded here.

Stop, stop.

- Sit in a minute. - We need more space.

In a minute, we will make you sit. It's fine.

A little bit back. More people are coming. Back.

Go back a little bit. Go back a little bit, please. We need space.

- Stop pushing. - One by one. One by one, guys.

[indistinct chatter]

Wait, wait, wait, wait! Come back. Come back.

Lines, please.

[singing]

[dramatic music]

After you give them water and food and they start feeling better,

their gratitude, it's incredible.

I cannot describe what you feel.

- What's your name? - I'm Samuel.

- I'm Samuel. - Samuel. Alberto. Nice to meet you. OK?

They go through hell, just for a little hope.

[soft music]

We can sit back home and watch it on the news

and say, you know, it's a terrible thing,

but someone's got to do something, and this is my part in doing my bit.

[soft music]

I know that it's not in my power to change the world, it's not...

I have changed what I can do.

- God bless you people. - God bless you all.

It's not enough, for sure, but it's something.

It's a drop in the ocean, but it's one drop more.

It's possible to make the world a better place.

But it needs a lot of time and a lot of effort.

I do hope, and I hope that more people hope.

A lot of people are hopeless that still there is so much violence.

There are many faces that give me hope.

The smiles of the people that is happy with what we did for them.

Things can really change. Step by step, you know. Little drops.

But let's make it better.

War is not a solution for any problem.

It's going to bring just pain, destruction, poverty.

As long as we see war effects,

I will continue to help the people that is suffering.

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