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KQED Frontline January 24, 2018

Narrator for those risking everything for a better life. Narrator tonight, the Journey Continues. Exodus, a special frontline presentation. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional support is provided by the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. At fordfoundation. Org. The park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The john and Helen Glessner family trust, supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. And by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler, and Additional Support from Laura Debonis and scott nathan, and tom stair and lucy caldwellstair. whispering go, go. dog barking since 2015, over one and a half million refugees and migrants have smuggled themselves to the west, fleeing war and poverty. loud explosion but the countries they dreamed of reaching have changed. A bloodbath in the heart of europe. A target of several terrorist attacks in just the past year. Borders have tightened. shouting . And in places, Public Opinion has turned against them. I call it extreme vetting. Do not come to europe. It is all for nothing. Filmed over the past three years, across 31 countries, this is the ongoing story of an exodus. laughing people shouting refugees go home. Through the eyes of those trying to find safety in europe and america. water splashing coughing azizzulah singing london is far from serbia . Yeah, quite far. You got to go serbia, hungary. Austria, germany, france, u. K. Be careful. indistinct chatter indistinct chatter man azizzulah gunshots rapid gunfire shouting gunshots siren blaring chuckles children playing chuckles lateef giggling nazifah giggling giggling na, na, na clapping cars passing children playing lateef and and daughter conversing children playing children playing nazifa sobbing singing children playing indistinct chatter playful screaming laughter boy shouting indistinct chatter tarek counting in german woman repeating numbers woman speaking german repeating in german indistinct chatter woman woman on tv baby fussing tarek sniffles children playing fake groaning imitating gunfire laughter israa children playing laughing tarek zipping bag israa israa speaking german israa cheering indistinct chatter laughter indistinct chatter teacher speaking german indistinct chatter laughing indistinct chatter tarek kids shouting germany takes in more refugees than any other e. U. Nation. Europe does not speak with one voice. The controversial closing of the Balkans Route from migrants. More than a quarter of a century after they tore down the iron curtain, theyre putting fences back up again. A fourmeterhigh border fence runs for a 110 miles and is topped with razor wire. Separating hungary from serbia. Hungary has deployed up to 10,000 police and soldiers. wind howling wind howling man wind howling aziz this is my. Whats the name in english . Underwear . Underwear . Your underwear. Underwear. phone ringing hello . Whatwhat i saying in english, my shoes is. Like take the water. Your shoes are getting wet. Sorry, english is not good. But i try. din of the traffic man aziz indistinct chatter indistinct chatter sobbing sobbing sobbing din of the crowd what is your name . laughing cars passing indistinct chatter im establishing measures to keep radical islamic terrorists out of the United States of america. Americas entire Refugee Admissions Program has been suspended for four months. Nationals from seven countries syria, iran, iraq, libya, somalia, sudan. Denied entry to all refugees and anyone from seven mainly muslim countries. I call it extreme vetting, right, extreme vetting. I want extreme, its going to be so tough. Its going to be only america first. cheers and applause children shouting children playing thats my mom. This is my sister layla. man on television saed we are in downtown lincoln, nebraska. I never imagined to be outside my country or my area. Its not easy to leave all the memories, your friends, your place, and everything where you grow up and leave everything behind and go far away, but we have to. Its time to work. woman singing this is my picture when i was a translator with the u. S. Army. It was a good job, but it was dangerous too. This guys been captured by isis, and no one know anything about him so far, but i think they kill him. When they know we are working with the u. S. Army, we are the first targets for them. Some of the thousands of members of iraqs yazidi minority fleeing the advance and the brutality of the islamic state. They speak of mass killings and forced conversions. Over 5,000 men, women and children were taken. Yazidis are haunted by what happened to them. The islamic states use of captured women as sex slaves. In fact, has even issued official guidance on the practice. Women can be bought, sold, traded as gifts. The fighter laughs and says, it costs more for a girl with blue eyes. saed interviewer wind howling sighs birds chirping children playing cooing door creaking nazifa lateef crying crying weeping lateef girl speaking Foreign Language laughter in summer, there a lot of people, but now its the weather is a bit cold, and thats why there is not much things, but i come like three to four times a. song playing on radio afghan song playing yeah, this is afghan song. song continues playing laughing whooping song continues playing sadiq man laughter i had a good life in afghanistan, but when i was targeted by taliban, i had to flee, otherwise i would have been killed. When the borders opened, then just straight away i flee from afghanistan. It took 45 days. I passed from 11 countries. I many times told my friends, look how european people are good and kind. Here is freedom, freedom of everything. chuckling its going to be cold. You want . Now i go to finland. Hey this is winter in finland, how does it look . Every place is covered by snow. Everyplace is snow, snow, snow. Whoo laughter this is my room, 213b. And this is the room where i spend my days and nights. Hey, salam, salam. They are my friends. Hi. Yeah, heres mr. Abbas. He is one of my other best friends, shukrullah, we came together from greece and he is busy to study finnish language. And a very nice view to outside. And this is my bed, and it is quite comfortable to sleep to make myself relax. And the very important thing is the papers, these are the papers how i schedule my programs and my events. For example, i have an event called networking your way into a job, part one. And if the paper is here, so i usually not forget my event. I was thinking all that i need to do is just to reach finland, i will get asylum, i will get a job, i will get a flat and i will start a normal life here. But i was rejected. din of traffic i did appeal and i am waiting for the decision. Here are a lot of locks. And these are forfor lovers. laughing the bicycle lock. laughs refugees go home. Salam, salam. Welcome. Wow. sighs chuckles does it feel good to welcome your friends to your own house . Asylum seekers say its not safe for them to return. The taliban has been growing in strength. 18,000 civilians have been killed or injured since 2015. The taliban still controls large swaths of the country. Do you know that like one week ago i have moved to my friends flat, abbas, and i am living now here. Everything was okay since a few minutes ago. I received a call from my lawyer and told me that, sadiq, i have bad news for you. And the news was that Immigration Office and the Administrative Court have rejected you again. It means that you cannot stay in finland. So i dont know, i dont know what to do. I have locked the door, let me just show you. Look, in the door there is like a chain and i have put that one in order to lock, or if police come, at least they cannot enter in the room and i can i can easily escape from somewhere. I have thought that if police come, i will jump from here. passing car i have no choice. If i dont jump, so the police will catch me, and will send me by force to afghanistan. sniffling sighs there are seven billion people in the world. Cannot do anything for only one million displaced people, refugees. Hey, sevenseven billion people in the world, you cannot help sadiq . There is not anybody to raise their voice and say, hey sadiq, im with you, im going to support you. shaky breathing shouting attempts to cross the mediterranean are up this year. Nearly 2,400 people have drowned making the journey. The migrants themselves come mostly from subsaharan africa. Theyre fleeing poverty and repression. exhalations moussa youve got the spanish enclaves of melilla and ceuta, which have barriers that separate them from the rest of morocco, built to stop immigration and smuggling. people shouting 70 subsaharan africans migrants were injured when they tried to get through the razor wiretopped fence. This is the moment where their struggle to enter europe was stopped at the top of a six meter barbed wire fence facing rows of spanish officers waiting to turn them back to morocco. music playing in distance moussa sizzling breathing heavily breathing heavily wind howling camera operator moussa indistinct chatter moussa more than a thousand people surprised the moroccan Border Patrol and ran for the fence. Hundreds of migrants entered spanish territory in north africa on friday. Upon arrival they shouted, freedom. shouting aziz people chanting merkel must go, they chant. This is the backlash against germanys generous refugee policy. The right wing has been making spectacular gains here in germany in the last couple of years. The afd, or alternative for germany, has only existed for three years. But in that time, its attracted lost of support for its antimigrant views. people chanting sirens blaring danke. chanting continues camera operator crowd chanting chanting continues tarek woman shouting in german cheering tarek people chanting israa giggling camera clicks giggling whoa laughing chuckles giggling despacito snapping fingers Despacito Despacito giggling tarek children shouting children playing outside arzu baby fussing mama mama playful shouting giggling lateef girl crying nazifa traditional music playing i am now in espana, in spain. And its a really good city and nice people. indistinct chatter ciao. Hola. bells tolling i am going to visit my lawyer because my pressures are too much on me. If within two next days my appeal is not sent to Supreme Court then the police can come and take me. Okay, have a seat. desk whirring what do you think about my case, will Supreme Court take this or not because i hear that only they take one from 1,000 case. Its true that the highest court administration, they dont take most of the cases. Its very few which they take, and therefore we have to give them more details. Yes. In order to succeed. But they do take decisions. We had one client, and we get good reasons, and they stopped the process. In Supreme Court. In Supreme Court, yeah. If the decision doesnt go sadiqs way, what would happen to him . Well, basically, then the state tries to send him back to afghanistan, and it can happen either voluntarily, or if the person doesnt accept that then they try to make it unvoluntarily. By force. By force, yeah. Then the person can be sent back. people chanting people chanting people shouting people chanting send them home. Send them home, they chant. people chanting right wing nationalist parties have boomed in popularity on the continent. cheering antiislam, antiimmigrant, antieuro. Its leader recently suggested german Border Guards shoot refugees. cheering hello. chuckles lateef crying softly Supreme Court took my case, and gave me another chance to be interviewed by Immigration Office. And i call that interview of my life. lawyer i am waiting for my fate to be told. Europe either gave me a life or death. I hope they give me life. nazifa go to pbs. Org frontline to watch our first exodus film which aired in 2016. Then, find out more about europes response to the migrant and refugee crisis. Send them home, they chant. And more about americas refugee policies under the trump administration. I call it extreme vetting. Connect to the Frontline Community on facebook and twitter. And if stories like this matter to you, then sign up for our newsletter at pbs. Org frontline. 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