4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2015
⏱️ 24 minutes
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The Dhnie family find themselves sleeping rough, getting caught up in riots and being detained as they try to reach Europe after their flight from Syria.
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0:00.0 | This is a BBC podcast. You can get all our podcasts and our terms of use at BBCworldservice.com slash podcasts. |
0:12.0 | It's a war soon now. There's no more education or study. You might die in any minutes. |
0:19.0 | Sixteen-year-old Abbeian and the rest of the Thinee family had to flee Syria because of the wall and after |
0:24.8 | struggling for financial survival in Jordan they're now hoping to get to Europe. |
0:29.1 | Everyone deserves a better life. But Abbian's father, Abdur-Oov, was beaten by guards when their first |
0:36.5 | attempt to get to Greece on a boat, failed. Abian's sister, 22-year-old Alma, |
0:42.0 | and the youngest brother Yarmen, who's 13, were terrified of trying the boats again |
0:47.0 | as they can't swim. |
0:49.0 | Nervous, worry, the waves, the boat turnover this is what I'm afraid about it. |
0:57.0 | So the family attempted to walk to Europe instead. |
1:00.0 | When that failed too their mother matched was getting desperate. |
1:04.4 | I am very, very tired. |
1:07.4 | It's important. |
1:08.4 | I lost my hope. |
1:10.4 | Lost everything. |
1:11.4 | You're listening to the second part of a new life in Europe. |
1:15.0 | I'm Manveen Rana and I followed the The Knee family for five weeks on their remarkable journey. |
1:21.0 | A month after they'd first arrived in Turkey and |
1:25.5 | after several failed attempts I received this message from Abian. |
1:29.8 | Where's grieuis? Turns out it's the sort of elation that can't quite be contained in BBC appropriate language. |
1:37.0 | It was accompanied by map locations and a selfie, showing the family and some friends walking across the Greek island of Samos. |
1:45.3 | I flew straight out to join them. |
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