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[soft classical music playing]

[clamoring]

[indistinct chatter]

Where's your mommy?

[woman] Okay.

[people chattering]

[male rescuer]

Some hot tea.

Where's the hot tea?

[man]

Here's the tea.

Good, good, good.

[man]

Drink the tea.

Thank you very much.

- You're a good man.

[woman] We can

bring him over to the fire.

- Yeah, go to the fire.

- [Weiwei] Your name?

- My name is Muhammed Hassan.

- From where?

- Iraq. Salah ad-Din.

Okay.

- The camp there?

- What?

- In Iraq.

- Iraq, Salah ad-Din.

- Aha.

- Okay.

[children chattering]

[indistinct chatter]

[in Arabic] We left four

years ago, because the

situation was so horrible.

- Because every place

was being hit by

missiles coming from Jobar.

- Yes, missiles were

coming from Jobar,

without warning.

- Missiles from Jobar

falling like rain.

[waves splashing]

[indistinct chatter continues]

[whistling]

[cheering]

[Weiwei]

Is there a second boat?

- There's a second boat.

There are two more boats.

- How far away?

How far away?

- Half hour.

Because there are rocks.

There are rocks.

When they go, first the water

goes like this, then it goes

like that.

If they get stuck there, they'll

panic and fall in the water.

They think the water's like this

but the water is like that.

[wind gusting]

[indistinct chatter]

[yelling]

[Weiwei]

Do you think this will continue?

- It's very difficult to say.

Obviously, we don't have

a crystal ball to forecast,

but all the elements

that have driven people to flee

are still there.

The conflicts are still waging.

Syria, the biggest driver

of displacement,

is very much volatile. Uh...

Even though right now it's slow,

and over the past two days

there have hardly been

any arrivals,

but it's also extremely cold.

Winter has very much set in.

With the improvement of weather,

with coming of spring,

it's, uh, very likely that the

numbers will grow once more.

And it's difficult

to forecast how many,

but we should be prepared,

we should be prepared to receive

probably the numbers that

we have seen in 2015 again.

This extraordinary event

that has unfolded

has also impacted Europe

in many ways.

We are here, right now,

on Lesvos Island.

This is the point where

half a million people,

most of them refugees,

set foot and entered Europe.

An extraordinary way that

people have been coming through.

And just the last year alone,

over one million have come

to Europe through

the Mediterranean Sea.

And although these are movements

we haven't seen in decades--

in fact, it hasn't been since

the Second World War

that so many had fled

and come to Europe--

it's still something

that we need to consider

in the global context

with so many millions

that are actually displaced.

[indistinct chatter]

[in foreign language]

If there's a will,

nothing is impossible.

If you have a strong will, God

willing, nothing is impossible.

I am, thank God,

strong-willed and determined.

We are on this boat out at sea

and we will reach a country that

will help us and we will return

the favor.

[indistinct chatter]

[in Arabic]

Mihemed!

- Come on. Put

your boots on, son.

- What about the tape?

- I took it off already,

put them on now.

- It's still there!

- And this one.

- It's still there!

[mother]

I'll take it off.

[boy speaking in Arabic]

[boy grunting]

[bird cawing]

[Rafik in Arabic]

We lived in harmony over there.

We were all right.

We could grow our

crops over there. In peace.

We didn't want to

go to another country,

our forefathers' land

has been taken from us.

Our livestock has been taken.

There's nothing left,

it's all gone.

Rohingya women have been raped,

thousands have been raped,

they've been killed.

Yet we still remain loyal,

we don't want to

fight them with force,

because

Rohingyas are devout Muslims

and Islam

doesn't allow us to do so.

Our faith is still strong.

[birds and crickets chirping]

[Rafik in Arabic] At times

we are ashamed when people call

us stateless people,

boat people.

And many other names.

We too have feelings,

we too are humans.

They give us all sorts of names:

boat people, drifters,

all because of the tyranny

of the military junta

that has destroyed our future.

[coughing]

[in Arabic]

Yes, we walked with

the other people.

We didn't know it would be

so exhausting. It

was very exhausting.

My wife has a slipped disc

and I have a heart condition, I

had a pacemaker put in recently.

But we walked.

[indistinct chatter]

[indistinct chatter]

[coughing]

[train horn]

[indistinct chatter]

-[train horn blowing]

-[train brakes squealing]

[indistinct chatter]

[in Arabic]

Where did you get the lettuce?

Tell us.

[Bouckaert] The situation

in the camp is bad,

because the borders

are all closed now.

First, the Macedonian border

was closed.

Then the Slovenian and Croatian

and Serbian borders were closed.

So there is no way

for these people to advance

on their journey

to try to get to Germany.

They're now trapped here.

There is about 13,000

people in this camp.

Most of them are from Syria,

Iraq and Afghanistan.

They are fleeing from war.

Uh, I talked to people

who just fled from the bombs

just a few weeks ago.

And they're trapped.

It's been raining since Monday.

Everybody is completely wet.

They have no way

to dry their clothes.

Um, just to get a little bit

of food sometimes...

It takes two hours

to get one cup of soup.

So it really is

a desperate situation.

[indistinct chatter]

[indistinct conversation

in Arabic]

[rain pattering]

[Bouckaert]

So through this little gate,

last year more than

a million people

walked their way to Europe.

This is the gate

that they pass through

along these railway tracks,

going first through Macedonia,

then to Serbia,

then through Croatia.

A million people

walked through this gate.

-[horses snorting]

-[police radio chatter]

[Halmosi in foreign language]

- How long are you

on duty today?

- Until 6 pm.

- And when did you

last see your family?

- Last week.

And when will you

next travel home?

- In five days.

- In five days.

- I hope you have

an incident-free shift!

- Thank you.

[Grandi]

Europe is an interesting case,

because Europe of course

is the continent

where the refugee convention

was born.

This was one of the essential,

crucial initiatives

that came out

of the Second World War

and of the horrors of the war.

Initially, the focus

was very much on Europe.

It's interesting that

we have gone full circle

and now the focus

is again on Europe.

But 1951, of course, one

of the main refugee problems,

or perhaps the main problem then

was refugees

coming across the Iron Curtain.

So there was a strong focus

on individual cases

fleeing the Soviet bloc.

[helicopter whirring]

[indistinct chatter]

[Grandi]

The European member states

traditionally have had

very good asylum mechanism.

This was happening

in a smooth way

when numbers were small.

When people started

coming in large numbers,

then the system collapsed.

[Benko in foreign language]

You can see the Hungarian

soldiers and policemen,

how they perform joint duties

along the border here.

A fundamental role of

the Hungarian army is to

support the police force.

It is their joint duty

to secure the border.

Why is it important?

As we already said, a border

fence like this represents a

physical obstacle.

We then need a strong human

presence to protect this side

of the border.

[helicopter whirring]

[faint indistinct chatter]

[indistinct chatter]

[Sondos]

At the beginning of

the crisis, we had

40, 45 crossing points

along our border with Syria.

After we receive them,

we move them

to an accommodation center.

After that, we start to

cooperate with humanitarian

organizations,

with UN organizations,

and we move them

to camps in Azraq.

But we reduced the number

of crossing points to five.

The total is 553,000.

This is the

total number of people

who have entered crossing points

with border guards only.

The total number of refugees

in Jordan is 1.4 million.

By comparison, this would be

equivalent to an influx of 60

million people

into the United States

or the European Union.

[indistinct chatter]

[indistinct chatter]

[indistinct chatter]

[duck quacking]

[man yelling in Arabic]

...should be taking--

Take a picture of him like this.

[laughing]

-Sorry.

-Yes.

You know,

Jordan historically, um,

has been truly

a crossroads for peoples.

Um, whether it's-- it's from

antiquities with caravans

or today as a host for people

from throughout this region.

And we have tried to play a role

in keeping an open door

and enabling people

to find a refuge here.

Um, a-and to retain,

you know,

some sense of dignity,

a home, until they are able

to return to, um, their homes.

You know, the average stay

I think of a refugee

is 25 years

or-- or some number like that.

A-And this humanitarian side

I think is very, very important.

You must always

hold onto humanity.

And the more immune

you are to people's suffering,

I think that's

very, very dangerous.

And we-- You know,

our region is very challenging.

We have difficulties every

which direction you look at.

And I think it's critical for us

to maintain this humanity,

for our own... you know,

the health of our own society

and community and relations.

[truck engine revving]

[metal clanking]

[rumbling]

[whistles]

[in Italian] Let's go!

[in Italian] Get up!

Get up. Get up.

[officer yelling in Italian]

[Ashrawi]

Being a refugee

is much more than

a political status.

It is the most pervasive

kind of cruelty

that can be exercised

against a human being

by depriving the person

of all forms of security,

the most basic requirements

of a normal life...

By cruelly placing that person

at the mercy sometimes

of very un-- or inhospitable

host countries

that do not want

to receive this refugee.

You are forcibly robbing

this human being of all aspects

that would make human life

not just tolerable

but meaningful in many ways.

[whistle blaring]

[whistle blaring]

[interviewer in Arabic]

Europe has decided to close the

Macedonian border to Afghans.

What are you going to do?

What is your plan?

We don't have a plan.

[interviewer] But did you know

that the Macedonian border

was closed?

- No.

- No. We didn't know,

you just told us.

Nobody gave us that information.

They said they planned to close

the border in the next two,

three months.

But we didn't

expect it to be so fast.

- What are we going to do

if it's closed?

We can't go back.

- No one leaves

their country lightly.

You only put yourself through

the hardship of fleeing

in order to find safety.

To find peace somewhere.

Are you sleepy?

Don't do that.

Don't do that.

- Mom, do you want this?

- Yes. But don't poke

it in my eye!

[child laughs]

[dog barking in distance]

Uh-uh, uh-uh...

[indistinct chatter]

[both jokingly] Uh-uh, uh-uh...

[man in foreign language]

A smuggler brought us

from Iran to Turkey

because we didn't know the way.

We spent a month in Turkey,

because we couldn't

make the sea crossing.

There were several young women

and many families with us.

The smugglers took

them into the woods.

They had guns, we

couldn't do anything.

Some of the girls were raped.

It was very, very tough.

Then we crossed the water

and we made it to Greece.

No one helped us.

Neither the Greek

police, nor the UN people.

No one looked after us

or even asked us anything.

[indistinct chatter]

[coughing in distance]

[grunting]

[indistinct chatter]

[squelching]

[child coughing]

[in foreign language] I'd like

to see the leaders come and

sleep here for one night.

Only one night, just to see if

they could sleep in these tents.

Could they stand the suffering?

Snakes, lizards, spiders, there

are all kinds of creatures here.

[train horn blowing]

And infectious diseases,

fevers and diarrhea.

[train horn blowing]

Every time I see a train,

I ask God if we'll

be able to leave one day.

Every day we wonder

which side we're going to be on.

We count every moment.

[rain pouring down]

[coughing]

[thunder rumbling]

[woman yelling in Arabic]

[yelling in Arabic]

Border, border close?

Open, no?

Where you go, the people?

Where you go?

[man in Arabic]

Taboush, my kitty,

I was looking for you.

I was so worried, Taboush.

[Weiwei]

He's so sweet.

[woman]

This is my big brother

in Syria.

- How old is he?

- 28.

- 28? Very young.

- Yes.

This is Taboush in Syria.

- How cute that is!

[engine whirring]

[Weiwei] I'll show

you my Chinese passport.

- I also have a passport.

- Yes, we are

exchanging passports.

I'll become a Syrian, and

you become a Chinese, right?

- Yeah, I hope.

- Where's my passport?

Here's my passport.

So you go to China

and I'll come to...

- To Syria.

- Yeah, yeah.

You take this, I'll take that.

- Thank you very much.

- What's my new name?

- Mahmoud.

- Mahmoud?

- Yes.

- Abdullah Mahmoud.

- I'll give you my tent.

- My name is Ai Weiwei.

- Ai Weiwei.

- So, next time you're Ai Weiwei

and I'm...

- Mahmoud. Nice to meet you.

[laughs]

If you want

to take my tent, it's...

- Take your tent, too?

- Yeah.

[chuckles]

- Then you have

to take my studio in Berlin.

I have a studio in Berlin.

- Thank you. Really, thank you.

- I respect you. I respect...

- We have to respect...

- ...the passport

and I respect you.

[faint cow mooing]

[bird cawing]

-[water gushing]

-[sheep bleating]

[Haydar in foreign language]

We didn't work.

At home, we

made everything ourselves.

We baked our own bread

and didn't need to

buy anything else.

We were self-sufficient.

In spring, we planted vegetables

in the garden.

We lived off that.

It was good. We were doing well.

But then when

the war broke out...

[man] The people

really suffered...

- Many...

[man] Not only us.

- Not only us.

We wish everything could be

good again.

Hopefully the pain will pass.

What's lost does not matter,

but there must be peace.

The killing must stop

and life must be worth living.

All these young people are

being killed. All of them...

We are deeply sad.

- That's all we have to say.

What else is there to say?

[rattling and shattering]

[indistinct chatter]

[woman coughs]

[in Arabic] We slaved away

for 20 to 30 years to build

our house here.

We built this house for

the future of our children,

our family.

We didn't do it for the state,

the Kurdistan Workers'

Party or whoever,

to wage war and destroy it.

[in Arabic]

Peace must return.

We want our rights.

Our identity, our language...

That's what we want.

Brothers shouldn't argue.

We don't want the mothers

of policemen to cry,

we don't want the mothers

of soldiers to cry,

we don't want the mothers

of guerrillas to cry.

[indistinct chatter]

[indistinct chatter]

[police radio chatter]

[yelling in Arabic

over bullhorn]

[clamoring]

[explosion]

[clamoring continues]

[helicopter whirring]

[indistinct chatter]

[indistinct chatter]

[coughing]

[baby crying]

[indistinct chatter]

[man 1] Hey, hey, hey.

[man 2] Inhaler, inhaler!

Hey, you. You.

Inhaler.

[coughing]

[sobs]

[inaudible]

[razor whirring]

[coughing]

[Dandl in Arabic]

I don't want to see you cry.

[indistinct chatter]

If you want to go back to

Turkey, we'll go back to Turkey

tomorrow morning.

If you want to go to Germany,

we'll go to Germany tomorrow.

[Okab]

Are you not my older brother?

I'll follow you wherever you go,

even to hell.

[indistinct chatter]

You are my older brother

and I'll follow you anywhere.

Just tell me what you want, and

I shall do it with all my heart.

[indistinct chatter]

[exhales]

[crying]

The officials came here

and told them,

"Look there is no way you gonna

get papers to continue.

So, you're going to be deported.

Either you go voluntarily

or we arrest you."

And yesterday,

it started with...

police coming here

and actively arresting people.

[Ott] They are very afraid

of being brought back.

I mean, there is a reason

why these people are here.

[woman in Arabic]

I've been roaming aimlessly

with my son for 60 days now.

Nobody has shown us the way.

If I want to apply for

asylum, how exactly should

I go about it?

Where am I

supposed to start my life?

I can't live here.

How many more days

can I live like this?

-[whispers] Sorry.

-[woman gags]

[gags]

It's okay, it's okay. It's okay.

[coughs]

[coughs, vomits]

Okay. A little water.

[woman coughs]

[indistinct chatter]

[chanting in Arabic]

[chanting fades]

[bus engine idling]

[indistinct chatter]

-[whistle blowing]

-[cameraman] Come on, man!

[complains in foreign language]

Get down from there!

Get down from there!

[faint chatter]

[louder chatter]

[indistinct conversation]

-[beeping]

-[coughing]

[police car siren wails]

[birds chirping]

[fabric rustling]

[speaking in Arabic]

[speaking in Arabic]

-[coughs]

-[speaking in Arabic]

[coughs]

[coughing continues]

[man] This is one of them.

[Terzi]

This is one of them.

There's another one.

[speaking in Arabic]

Hold it. Hold on.

[baby whining]

He's two months old,

he was born here.

But he didn't

have any vaccination.

Every day they need

to walk one kilometer

to take water and take it here.

So, as you can see,

there's no bath,

no showering facilities.

The hygienic

situation is very bad.

Sorry.

Let's go to the car,

then to another place,

and then back to Izmir.

We will see

the people living in Izmir.

[Terzi] There's nothing in this

agreement in favor of refugees.

The Turkish law

system only allows them

temporary protection.

That means

they have no

international rights here.

One day, the government decides

that it wants to send them back.

The government can do this,

because they're not defined

as refugees.

No international

rights for them.

They need a social

integration program,

job permits, they need jobs.

They need a standard income.

To buy food or

to pay their rent.

The children

need to go to school.

The majority of them, for the

past five years, didn't go to

school even one day.

[giggling]

Hey.

[laughing]

[motorcycle engine revving]

[Ibrahim in Arabic]

Things were better before.

I worked. I was a driver.

We spent time with our families.

Life was all right, I had a

salary that we could live from.

[singing in Arabic]

[wind gusting, rattling]

[squelching]

[grunts]

[groaning]

[speaking in Arabic]

[Sediqi in Arabic]

They all died at sea.

His wife is buried here.

His son is also buried here.

And his daughter too.

His son also drowned at sea.

This is my brother, Sakhi Ahmad.

He has gone completely mad.

This is his wife, his daughter,

and his son.

This is me, Ismatollah Sediqi.

This is my wife, Muzhgan Sediqi,

Ramin Sediqi, Rashid Sediqi,

Sadaf Ramiz Sediqi,

Sadaf Sediqi,

Reshad Sediqi, Sana Sediqi.

There were 17 of us with IDs,

now there are only 12 of us.

You can see for yourselves.

[sniffles, cries]

I've got nothing left to say.

All my money is gone

and we've lost five people.

Two people drowned at sea.

I wish they were still with us.

They appear in

my dreams at night.

I see them in my sleep

and they tell me what to do.

[crying]

What am I supposed to do?

[cheering]

[Chapuisat] Today, we're

here at the Ein al-Hilweh Camp,

which is one of the most

populated areas in the world.

In an area of one kilometer,

there is approximately

100,000 different people living,

and as one knows the history

of the Palestinian people,

this camp has been here

for more than 60 years.

Generations of children

have grown up

within the walls of this camp.

[indistinct chatter]

[bus horn honking]

[Yahya] If children grow up

without any hope,

without any prospects

for the future,

without any sense of them

being able to make something

out of their lives, then they

will become very vulnerable

to all sorts of exploitation,

including radicalization.

Young, particularly men

who are...

They're teenagers,

they're on their way

to adulthood,

many of them are traumatized

by unimaginable losses at home.

Uh...

They're angry,

they're frustrated,

they want to make a difference

in their...

in the lives

of their communities.

They have seen

their homes demolished,

they have seen

their families killed. Uh...

They are children who want...

they themselves

want to go fight

because they think that this is

the way they can seek revenge

or get revenge for the horrors

that they have lived through.

[beep]

[Joumblatt] Without memory,

you are nothing,

memory is part of your history

and history is part--

part of your geography.

Where can the Syrians go?

Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Europe.

So now, they are helping us,

they want us

to keep these refugees.

Okay, we will keep them.

They want to give us money

so we have to profit out of this

money, to educate the Syrians,

to make them work so one day

they might come back.

But now they

are pouring money in Jordan,

in Lebanon, in Turkey.

They don't want to hear anymore

about refugees.

That's their new policy now.

It's quite a hypocritical

policy, but...

I was terribly violent

a long time ago,

I was a feudal, I was a warlord

a long time ago.

Lebanon is small, with...

It's a country

of 18 communities,

Christians and Muslims.

So we have to preserve it,

and not to think about the past.

See the future.

And to forget about old,

about our old hatred.

Because somewhere

in our subconscious,

we hate each other.

We have to, at any price,

compromise.

Dialog is important in life.

Much more important

than anything.

In this new world of total

uncertainty, nobody knows,

I don't think somebody knows

where this world is going on.

[turnstile rattling

and squeaking]

[indistinct chatter]

[rooster crowing]

[indistinct chatter]

[police siren wails]

[man in Arabic

over P.A.]

Press and media,

film these brigades.

Press and media,

film these brigades.

They are now taking

to the streets of Gaza

to declare

that Allah

is with us.

[fire crackling]

[indistinct chatter]

[Akleh]

The new generation

is a problem for the future,

because they're growing up with

the wall and checkpoints and...

what they see is not...

They never meet with Israelis.

They don't know the

area before the wall.

So when they're grown up...

they've never met these people,

only heard about them, so they

use stereotypes.

For both sides.

[children chattering]

[clamoring]

[speaking in Arabic]

[metal clanking]

[El-Ad] Gaza could be,

could be on Mars.

It's like as distant

as you could be.

An hour's drive

from Tel Aviv...

those 1.8 million people, that,

you know, are our neighbors,

living in conditions, you know,

of a third world country

on the way to collapse, right?

Already people there,

for many hours in a day,

don't have electricity, right?

Uh, the quality of the water

is deteriorating.

We are talking about, like,

the most basic

of human needs, right?

This is, like,

almost as basic as it gets.

Is this fair? Is this equal?

Is this just?

Just as a human being,

identify that,

you know, what you are

looking at is injustice.

[boy chanting

in foreign language]

[mule snorting]

[seagulls cawing]

[girl in foreign language]

Gaza has gotten

lost beyond the world.

It has been

removed from the map.

Wars are fought in

it; there are sieges,

but nobody thinks of us.

All around us,

they close their borders.

Egypt, the Jews, and Jordan

wouldn't open their borders

for us even if we were dying.

We're in a prison,

just a slightly bigger one.

It's like a prison cell,

just slightly bigger.

This is Gaza, and despite it

all, you are smiling.

[laughs]

My one and only dream is

to travel the world on

a cruise ship.

But this is a very

difficult dream.

- Impossible.

My dream is to go around

the world, but that's

also impossible.

[chuckles] I want to travel,

to leave Gaza but to then

come back.

That doesn't

mean I don't like Gaza.

I do like it, but I would like

to leave and then come back.

But I'd like to see the

world and how people live

in other countries.

[helicopter whirring]

[interviewer in

foreign language]

Why are you here?

- We went for a stroll.

- For fun.

We are from the same class,

we graduated and wanted to

be together one last time.

[girl] There's no

other place except here.

It is the only place to escape

in the big prison of Gaza.

[panting]

[farting]

[Khalil] He came

through the tunnels from Egypt.

He might be smuggled from

Africa, probably from Egypt.

He comes through

the tunnels here to Gaza.

Animals feel like humans.

They can feel disasters.

Animals can feel earthquakes,

can feel floods.

I believe it's not

nice for a tiger to hear,

tigers hear much better than us,

the bombs around them.

They don't understand this.

To keep the animal here

during any war or any conflict,

for 15 days and not being

able to come here to feed

the animal...

I believe that's

not nice for an animal.

To keep an animal in a place

like this where it never touches

the grass,

I don't believe it's the

correct place for an animal.

A wonderful creature like this

deserves to be freed

from these conditions.

[grunting]

[men yelling

in foreign language]

[Khalil] We have to

work with four countries.

We have to work with Jordan,

with the South African

authorities.

We have to work with Israel,

and with the

Palestinian authorities in Gaza.

It needs an

import/export permit,

a veterinary certificate, papers

from the agricultural ministry,

a duration letter

with a customs advisory,

various

military approvals and...

all these people agreed to

help this animal travel for

a better life.

No one said no to help

this animal have a better life.

So, tomorrow, tiger Laziz will

be darted, transported to the

airport in Israel,

and at 9 o'clock in the evening

he will fly to Johannesburg.

After this he will be released.

He will have a long trip, but

I call it his trip for freedom.

[Middle Eastern music playing]

[water undulating]

[wind howling]

[indistinct chatter]

[Weiwei]

You look good.

- I look good?

- Yes.

Ah, okay. Thank you!

[laughs]

[Kouyou]

The refugee life

is supposed to be just temporary

hoping they can

go back very easily.

Having a camp for refugees

is not the best solution.

Refugee numbers are increasing

compared to the past,

but the

resources are diminishing.

You can give the example

globally, with the Syrian

situation...

We have seen that

the European community

is much more focused on Syria.

But refugees in Africa;

the numbers are increasing.

Even if there is no violence,

climate change will also make

people run away,

but resources are diminishing.

[sheep bleating]

[wind gusting]

[indistinct chatter]

[grunting]

[indistinct chatter]

[Kajdomcaj] Pakistan

has been hosting people for

almost four decades here.

There are many generations

that are born in Pakistan

and they have probably

never been back to their

places of origin.

But a statement by Afghanistan's

president Ashraf Ghani

asks Afghans to go back to

Afghanistan and help rebuild the

country and the nation.

[beeps]

They all received a signed VRF,

a document that provides for

their assistance in Afghanistan,

but also a document

that in a way confirms

their decision to

return to their homes.

We provide a

small package of...

of food and water for them

when they leave, and that is it.

[horns honking]

[Ameratunga]

We are helping the returnees

to come back

with the cash grant

and with some

supplementary assistance

for the more vulnerable people.

And in addition, we are helping

the government of Afghanistan

to be a refugee hosting country

for the first time.

So, Afghanistan is actually

hosting people

who have fled

for their safety also here.

So, I think the main challenge

will be the security situation,

because it is a country where

there is ongoing conflict.

And that affects the ability

of people to come back

and restart their lives.

[baby fussing]

[Ameratunga] People are

sometimes unable

to go back

to their place of, uh, origin,

because it may be

in war-torn area.

That means they have been

displaced across the border

and now they are coming back

and becoming internally

displaced as well.

So that's the sad part about it.

And so the people

who are returning today...

[stammering] are in

a very difficult situation.

They are probably going to have

a very difficult time

restarting their lives,

but at least they are now

citizens of their own country.

[cow mooing]

[Shuja] So a lot

of these people

can't go back

to their villages,

particularly the people

coming from Pakistan,

because they have been

displaced for 30 years,

in some cases 40 years.

They no longer have the

connections in their villages.

They can't go back

and claim the land

that their grandfathers tilled.

In some cases, their villages

are too insecure for them

to go back, and so they

end up in urban areas,

displaced and disconnected,

landless and dislocated.

[helicopter whirring]

[indistinct chatter]

[birds cawing]

As we have huge logistics,

we of course have to design,

have to decide where people

can go with their stuff.

We're here now.

And you can see, we have

one, two, three, four hangars.

Three hangars already

have people living in them.

[children chattering]

[indistinct chatter]

-Hello.

-[Weiwei] How are you?

I mean, one thing is to make

sure that people get food.

And one thing is to make

sure that people have,

like, the possibility to shower.

But the hardest is to actually

make them feel like

they are a human being,

and they are not just

one of, I don't know,

one million who came to Germany.

So I really, on a daily basis,

make people feel like

they are human beings

and we actually care about them.

[Al-Awaad in Arabic]

This is our life.

Here in Germany,

even here in the camp,

everything is forbidden.

If you go out, you must

be with your father and mother.

Being here in this camp has

been the most difficult time

of my life.

I get so bored.

Bored with my life.

And it's not just me.

My mother, my brothers and

sisters, and the people with us

are also bored.

[man yelling]

[men cheering]

[metro rumbling, horn blowing]

[Amir]

It's very difficult

for someone to illegally cross

three or more countries

to apply for asylum.

Every border we cross

you could...

It's, you know...

you could die

any single minute along the way.

When we were in our countries,

we heard that in

Europe there is democracy,

that there is freedom,

human dignity and...

and human respect.

[sirens wailing]

-[man] No, no, no.

-[indistinct chatter]

-[car horns honking]

-[sirens blaring]

[cops speaking in French]

[indistinct yelling]

[truck horn honking]

[coughing]

[Middle Eastern music playing]

[chanting]

[Mouzalas in Greek]

I see how history

is presenting us with dilemmas

that will redefine our lives.

We have two choices.

Either we move

forward as a Europe

of tolerance, of human rights,

against racism and xenophobia,

united;

or, we split into

a xenophobic Europe

that will never

manage to overcome

the trauma caused

by the wave of refugees.

That's not the

Europe we dreamt of.

[clamoring]

[whistling]

[indistinct chatter]

[gunshots in distance]

[indistinct chatter]

[gunshots in distance]

[gunshots continue]

[middle Eastern music

playing on car radio]

[indistinct chatter]

[in Arabic]

Life under ISIS is hard.

The hospital is only

there for their people.

They don't treat civilians

who get shot or

wounded by a bomb,

they only treat their people.

There's a medicine shortage and

they don't give it to civilians.

If a woman went

out without her khimar,

or wearing a khimar

but not covering her eyes,

just not covering her eyes,

they would take

her and her husband

and lock them

up in their prison.

They would humiliate him

and make him pay a fine.

[indistinct chatter]

[indistinct chatter]

[Avis] Every time

we took people off the deck

more people appeared.

It just never stopped.

We thought it was

going to be around 400,

but I guess it's somewhere

between 720 and 730 people.

[Giles] As a group, they were

the sickest people

I've seen yet

on this mission.

Uh, we had adults

with severe malnutrition.

I had a woman

who weighed 36 kilograms,

she was very, very sick.

Uh... there was

a high, high amount

of diarrhea and dysentery.

And, uh, there were people

who had scurvy

as well as chronic

vitamin C depletion,

like sailors used to see.

[Pagotto] A lot of them

came from Eritrea,

a few also from Somalia

and other places.

But the journey

they have made through Sudan,

through Khartoum up into Libya,

it was really shocking to hear

some of the stories,

to hear what they had been

through inside Libya,

often kept

for several months

and just exploited, just, uh...

giving up anything they have,

any money they have

to pay for this journey

and to make it out to sea.

[Giles] There were a total of

eight pregnant women on board.

Two of whom were due any day,

and one lady went into labor

our first morning.

We knew that she would have

complications that would not

allow her to successfully

deliver on the boat,

so we came to the decision

that we needed to medically

evacuate her.

So she went onto

a Coast Guard ship from Malta,

straight to the hospital,

went on to deliver

a healthy baby girl.

If that baby had been born

24 hours earlier,

the mom and the baby

would have died.

[singing in foreign language]

[singing continues]

-[hammering nails]

-[dog barking]

[motorcycle roaring]

[officer] Hey, you

guys gonna be here long?

What's going on?

[Weiwei]

We're doing some movie shooting.

- Okay. I just wonder how

long you guys are gonna be here.

- About 30 minutes.

- About 30 minutes?

- Yeah. How are you?

- That's fine. You know,

you guys can't be crossing

back and forth.

- I know. We just...

- You're on the US side now.

Make sure you stay south of

the fence. Thank you.

[indistinct chatter]

- You see where that

wooden pole is?

- Yeah.

- South of that pole there is

Mexico; north of that pole is

the United States.

Okay, thank you. 30 minutes?

30, 40 minutes? Okay.

- Maybe 30 minutes.

You got it?

- Yes.

- Good sound. Right on time.

You're on US soil.

There's the sign.

He said that wooden pole.

[Vazquez in Spanish] There are

more and more poor people and

just a few rich people.

The number of poor

people is increasing

and a group of rich people

control everything,

like the economy,

and while this system prevails,

migration will continue,

because inequality will deepen.

Migration, to

migrate, is a human right.

It's a human right that people

want to improve their lives,

have a better quality of life,

well-being, schools,

social welfare

for their children.

This is what

forces people to migrate.

- Beautiful mom.

- [in Spanish] Thank you.

- And who is this?

-[in Spanish] My son.

-[in Spanish] Son?

- My son.

[Weiwei]

How long have you been here?

[woman speaking Spanish]

- 16 years.

- 16 years?

- Here?

- Yeah.

[Kirisci] I think we've entered

a period in world history

where movements

of people across borders

has accelerated.

Maybe social media

plays a role in this.

Maybe the fact that

transportation has become

so much cheaper and more

effective plays a role in this.

And also that globalization,

though it has had

very positive outcomes,

it also has created

greater inequalities.

And inevitably, people are

going to move from locations

that are insecure

and economically nonviable

to areas where there is

more opportunities

and more stability,

and prospects of prosperity.

It's going to be

a big challenge to recognize

that the world is shrinking,

and people

from different religions,

different cultures

are going to have to learn

to live with each other.

[children chattering]

[Fares in Arabic]

When I was an astronaut,

I saw from space how each human

being on Earth is a universe.

All human beings live in

one big nation as brothers.

Syrians, Indians,

Chinese, and Americans

all live together on

this beautiful planet,

and all of them must share...

We must all share.

Protecting the planet

can only happen

with solidarity and love,

without manipulation,

without injustice, without

killing, and without

suppression.

Sadly, there are

evil people on Earth.

Let's send them into space.

[waves splashing]

[soft classical music playing]