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Thing the war in Syria came to Germany in their tens of thousands among them when Mohammed and his teenage daughter nor I'm Amy Sayed and I 1st met them in 2015 'd their greatest wish is to be reunited with the rest of the family who stayed in Syria the until the last of course I worry about them I worry about them every day every minute. I'm always worried Mohammed has been dreaming about what he'll do if he's finally able to get into this. Every time I walk past a shopping mall I keep thinking that when my son is here I'm going to bring him to this mall but applying for a family reunion is a complicated process and it's even harder if like Muhammad speak much German you can find out what happens in the channel the latest edition of the class and after the news. Hello I'm Debbie rests with the b.b.c. News hurricane is now lashing Cuba with strong winds and heavy rain after a devastating several Caribbean islands the storm has weakened slightly to a Category 4 since making landfall on the chemical way occupy Leggo in the early morning is now moving slowly along Cuba's north eastern coast from intervention rain and a huge storm surge well granted in the capital Hanna the Cuban authorities did try to move large numbers of people out of harm's way but still many have been left particularly in the central province of Camaguey we understand there are many thousands of people without power at the moment there is flooding in that region too and while the tourists have made by and large made it back to have and there is still plenty of fishing communities and individual villages along that coastline and we're still really waiting to hear from a large swathe of Cuba there are many residents of the u.s. City of Miami has been told to stay where they are as hurricane Amber approaches for days they have been big traffic jams as residents in southern Florida fled north from Miami his Jayna Brian the largest evacuation in Florida's history is under way as residents flee the wrath of the hurricane has been slightly downgraded to a Category 4 and has shifted westward but with sustained winds of 155 miles an hour it is still packing a devastating punch nearly 6000000 people have been asked to leave their homes causing water and petrol shortages across the state Miami has become a ghost town although some people have still refused to leave to them it's probably too late Amnesty International says it has evidence that the army in Myanmar has planted land mines along its border with Bangladesh to a huge numbers of Rohinton Muslims who fled over the last 2 weeks nearly 300000 rangers have escaped violence there. As Minister for Social Welfare Dr windy at a told the b.b.c. That people from all ethnic backgrounds were fleeing because of terrorist attacks in recent weeks. You know not only Muslims are fleeing but also the recurring people and people of all ethnicities they're gathering in some places because they fear the terrorists they are fleeing because they fear the terrorists because the terrorists attacks started on the 25th of August and we've had continuous a text since then so now the Arabia has suspended any dialogue with Katter soon after an apparent breakthrough in efforts to resolve the dispute between the 2 countries in a phone call both Shaikh Tamim been head of mad family of Qatar and the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin someone expressed an interest in starting negotiations but afterwards the Saudis were angry arguing that catalyze news agency should have said that its side initiated the phone call listening to the world news from the b.b.c. . Suspected Boko Haram to haddest have attacked a camp for displaced people in northeastern Nigeria the raid happened on Friday in Garland near the border with Cameroon a member of the civilian militia force said jihadists into pickup trucks fired a rocket propelled grenade and then started shooting. Right police in India have scuffled with parents of people at a prestigious private school in Delhi who try to storm the building and rage by the murder of a 7 year old boy police arrested a bus driver employed by the school on Friday accusing him of slitting the people throat after he resisted a sexual assault the principal of the school and go down has been suspended but parents wanted senior managers of rested. Reports from Spain say Barcelona and 7 other big cities in Catalonia have turned down the regional government's request to use their polling stations for an independence referendum next month they account for more than a 3rd of the region's population many other municipalities have yet to publish their response on Thursday Spain's Constitutional Court suspended Catalonia as new law on holding a referendum in order to assess its legality. And Cambridge University in England is looking at whether to allow students to type their exams because they had writing is often too hard to read a senior lecturer sent students now used laptops all the time and they've been a marked dick in the quality of handwriting Simon points that report their concern really new sound in exam rooms at Cambridge University the Tappan keyboards rather than the more familiar rustling of papers lectures so that neat student handwriting is becoming a lost art sometimes examiners can barely read it at all in fact some students have been forced to come back to college and read their answers out loud so their work can be marked ditching handwritten exams at Cambridge would bring more than 800 years of tradition to an end that's the latest b.b.c. News. Welcome to legal airport in Berlin it's a Friday morning and this place is imagine it's packed with people heading off on holiday or waiting excitedly for a flight to land I'm waiting for one to. My name's Amy Zion and for the last couple of years I've been following the fortunes of a group of Syrians who came to Berlin to escape the war that has destroyed their country this episode of the class and is the 4th programme we've made about them for the b.b.c. World Service. Just. 2 years ago hundreds of thousands of refugees arrived in Germany over a period of a few months about half of them came from Syria against the German government set up German language classes for them. And that's where I 1st met Mohammed too it's the end of 2015 and that is him how much. How many Yeah man or Mohammed was in his late forty's and he was a thick set man with closely cropped gray hair he told us the story of his journey . Jackman and I don't know we can't talk about that we left by boat building but our boat capsized on 3 different occasions the 1st time it happened we were in the water for 7 hours the 2nd time we had travelled only about a kilometer when it happened but God was merciful and got a safely back to the beach the 3rd time half of the boat it was one of those inflatable ones was on the water all the way across the sea to Greece Mohamed wasn't telling his 16 year old daughter Noor was on the boat with him nor have been almost ready for university when she met a Syrian I think you said it got him in your head any exposure when I was in Syria my only training was to get into university and continue my studies and then get a job based on my qualifications for which I would have worked really hard I was studying for my baccalaureate but we left when I was half way 3 I was studying sciences so my dream is to continue my studies and get my degree in Syria I wanted to study to be a pharmacist. Shaphan dear dear tools. You know how to know are both in rolled in Germantown Well neither of them was finding it easy do you deal. Can get. To find a different. Piece all this way it's difficult yes if you don't put in the effort then you won't learn anything to both of them there was so much else to worry about for a start they had to deal with the bureaucracy in a strange country with a strange language but the real problem was the rest of the family they'd left behind in Syria while clearly the life was up because they no longer had of course I worry about them I worry about them every day every minute I'm always worried when I'm with other people then I can occupy my mind is something else something other than this constant worrying. But then just comes back in a flash thought about my family thoughts about what they're going through you can't forget about your family knows mother had stayed in Syria with her 2 youngest children safe Ben aged 10 and the last age 3. The family had been relatively safe until one day in 2015 but word of warning this is an upsetting story. Again suddenly I heard the helicopters overhead I ran to the front door then I heard someone shouting Dad Dad I looked and saw my son lying on the ground. There were body parts. And legs on the ground next to him. I picked him up and started running my elder son was with me and I told him to take his brother and run as fast as he could explain children were killed in the attack Mohammed son was the only one who survived the fish but to you they took me to the hospital and when I have arrived they asked me Is this your son. I thought he died when I saw the state he was in when I picked him up. But then they told me they had amputations his leg but I would have to take him to another hospital otherwise he would die. We were able to get through the 1st checkpoint but we had problems that the next one the guard wouldn't let us through. I picked him I said please I will kiss your hands I will kiss your feet this is my son. Thankfully we made it. My son survived. Who were with the doctors advised me that it would be best to take my son out of Syria they said that in another country doctors would be able to provide my son with a good prosthetic limb I made some phone calls spoke with friends of mine who were doctors and they all said I better go to Germany to get his son to Germany Mohammed needed to 1st be recognised as a genuine refugee. In November he and nor made a formal application. The hum of the new were living in a vast housing complex built on the edge of the island by the East Germans in the 1970. It had been turned into temporary accommodation for refugees. Mohammed was doing his best to stay in touch with his family but getting through to Damascus by phone was almost impossible. Mohammed finally got 3 7 I don't. I don't know. When it came to the signal was very cruel and the line kept dropping out his wife appear told him that there was no electricity and no mobile phone reception in Damascus Mohammed put me on the phone to her missing him Hamza. She told me she didn't feel safe in the house not very surprising for someone in Syria she got 2 young children to look after and her husband was hundreds of kilometers away in Germany. We met Mohammad again a few weeks into the new year it was now 2016 he was finding the uncertainty about his future and the worry about his family almost too much to bear and if you will find that I went to see a doctor because I've been having. Really bad headaches. And I told him that sometimes I get scared by loud noises for example someone slams a door in when I hear an airplane overhead. He told me that it was crucial for me to go and see a psychiatrist. Mohammed was given a diagnosis of p.t.s.d. Post-traumatic stress disorder it was now several months since he made his application for refugee status and he had heard nothing from the austerity. I went to meet him one day with Norah my producer and he was clearly confused by all the paperwork he kept getting sent. But there was one moment of like really. Know how much for taking out a whole file more documents. And he says he's not going to give them all to a lot more than just to have a look at them. Because he's afraid they might get lost which I can understand. For Mohamed has no idea what this whole me. It must be so frustrating if you can't read any of this. You have this whole bunch of papers honestly. Which is not his documents Ah that's a guy who lives next door to him at the center of it or. Not you know if. You're going to die. So if you carry your reference back even so that I would be really yours and you have no idea. But it. Finally in June last year more than 6 months after making their applications Mohammed and Nora were invited for their interviews with a refugee your story it was a step in the right direction but there was a huge backlog of cases at the end the rule was last year it was still more than half a 1000000 people waiting for a decision and it looked as though they've been for a long wait. The good news was that Mohammed a nor had been able to move house. Here at Mohammed's new place and he's now in his own little room for this own bathroom he's on the other kids kitchenette and he's cleaned everything up since we came here. Because they're here with no face and same room Ryan Smyth Inc point setting for 17 year old girl Mohammed how are you feeling in your new room. Doesn't have a lot of light I mean it's much better so I've got a room which is like having a flat a room with a separate bathroom we've got a cooker we've got a fridge everything here is mine but Mohamed couldn't stop worrying about say his son in Damascus they were talking on the phone every day on how to get him back and he was once in his leg was amputated in hospital but now he asked me my dad will it grow back again. He thinks it's like a tooth you know he asked me if he'd be able to ride a bike again and I said yes you'll be able to ride a bike and he asked me about going swimming and I said yes you'll be able to go swimming. And she looked at Mohammed at the moment he's pressing his fingers silicon left and right he's really sounding stressed and although he's in this wonderful the room with no i think he still hasn't overcome the stress and the psychological pressure he's under. 100 friends appear his wife came and passed me the phone so that I could speak to her. When you use this new family you know. He's very frustrated saying that here there are left and they've been she's hearing them in the morning sometimes it's quiet and then it starts again and every time she's frayed and the boy gets alert. And is she says sometimes he you know drives her mad because he's so afraid and sometimes even aggressive. So yeah he said you know anything that we could do to help. Obviously you know he's trying to saying the same to her I have no idea what today . This was last August just over a year ago. Last November how it was told that he'd been granted refugee status. This was massive news for him it meant that now he would be able to apply for his wife and 2 other children to come to Germany. I went with him to Carriage House the German charity where they helped him fill in all the forms and they agreed to try and speak things up with a terminal story. In December there was another piece of news. Compare Hammond's wife managed to get out of Syria. Told us she had smuggled herself and the 2 children across the Turkish border in an ambulance. Then at the end of March this year I got a message from him on one. Of his You'll see if. This was very exciting news it's Mohamed said that his wife a bear had been to the German Consulate in Istanbul to apply for a visa they told her she'd get a response very soon. And said that it was feeling really optimistic it was beginning to look as if a beer his son's safe and his daughter in the last really were becoming teach him. And then at the beginning of June I got this message that I want to cause a murky fictional appreciate just to give us a caution. Show Mohammed said booked the flight they'd be arriving in 10 days time and he said he hoped we'd be able to go with them to the airport to meet them. Immediately. The exciting moment has arrived we are at Mohamed and North place and today is today of days families arriving from a stumble after almost 2 years of Mohammed not having seen them and in only a few hours' time they'll be here in theory. Hours from the thought in the House and the teddy bear which makes the music. Most of them in love. With him in heaven. Now Helen Helen Helen Mirren is she. Going to. I don't want a problem but I hear from the law like it is. Hard to say since remit feels like a dream he had almost given up hope for now days here you can't even believe it. Knows right next to me how do you feel it in the moment in the so shitty she. Was just saying it's a great feeling and it's all as well because she hasn't seen him for almost 2 years . So let's go let's go let's go time to go to the apple of. moments I have as ever. And finally I mean to say. I spoke to him on the phone but now he is in Belgium he's on crutches and I think he must have grown since 100 last saw him. He just told us his dad now. Handed in. Which are not directed written about me and sure enough what I saw looked as if he was not there I am sure he was safe was a bit overwhelmed by what's happening he doesn't have much to say it's time to get the family into a taxi. We give them a few days to settle in and then we go to visit. Family. And then that cat. That 5 year old the last science trying to attain us. And. Mohammed is taking a while to come to terms with his new circumstances like you know what is it the mommy Winnick my Liam said. To be honest I still can't quite believe it I keep asking myself if it's really true if they've really arrived or is it just a dream. The day after they arrived we went out to examine the plants and I took some photos of them there and then I took safe to the doctor the psychiatry and he spent an hour and a half with him the doctor said to me that we talk later and make a plan for the future. You know it feels like I still haven't spent time with them properly I also have the chance to sit down and talk to a peer she tells me that the day 2 years ago when Mohammed a no left Damascus to begin the journey to Europe had a family. That him and the thing I remember is that no I didn't want to leave but I decided with my husband that we'd share responsibility for the children so we took the risk of sending her with him she cried a lot. She was very very upset she was sad because she was leaving me because I was sending her out into the unknown but I had 2 children to look after on my own and it would have been too much with 3 so I had to harden my heart and send her away. I remember the last time she said goodbye. Then of Fear tells me about her own adventure we've heard from her meant that she smuggled herself and her children out of Syria in an ambulance it turns out that it didn't happen quite that way minus the economic or the analysis and that's what they promised that when safe got to live they put it in an ambulance that they let us into Turkey because he was injured but as soon as we got to live they changed their story it was a trick I said to them you promised us an ambulance but they said when one promise is something in reality something else happens so we had to follow their plan this month Most plan sounds absolutely terrifying they split the family up allowing only safe and the last to cross into Turkey Fortunately their elder brother Hamza was waiting for them on the other side but they forced a beer to stay in Syria they said they needed more money it sounds just like the mafia. Mafia. Yes exactly they are like the mafia I was caught in between the jaws of a lion I was forced to pay what they were demanding or else just stay where I was you just can't trust these people at all. Finally after a week the smugglers let her go and she was able to join her children in Turkey. One. It's absolutely amazing to see the head with a family with 16 rather breakfast table having just made some amazing Frank 1st. Great to see them laugh together being together finally. 16 The last time she saw her mother She's 18 now and she's got a summer job working in a for to St So how do you feel after your mom find they arrive now she's here finally knows who they are very very icky just the fact

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