Out Of Afghanistan: Starting life in the UK (ep 2 of 3)
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Yusef, Sherbano, Malalai and Afzal speak 1 about the level of support they have. We also hear from members of Bristol city council about learning hundreds of refugees would be arriving in hotels and how they’ve tried to find accommodation for them. From new babies, new jobs and new skills the refugees share how they’re helping each other find their feet and move forwards, but their minds are still with family left back in Afghanistan.
Presenter - Stuart Ramsay
Reporter – Lisa Holland
Producers - Anne-Marie Bullock with Dominque van Heerden
Digital production - David Chipakupaku
Sound design - Will Chalk
Editor - Paul Stanworth
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| 0:00.0 | We was in a plane. We took a picture in front of the window. |
| 0:07.0 | We watched around the UK. It was very green and very beautiful country, |
| 0:18.0 | much different in Afghanistan. |
| 0:22.1 | After that, we were discussed because many things |
| 0:27.4 | and over my head from Afghanistan. |
| 0:34.6 | After the chaos of the evacuations from Kabul in August 2021, |
| 0:39.4 | thousands of Afghan refugees on resettlement schemes headed to the UK, |
| 0:43.8 | bound for safety but still processing what had happened. |
| 0:47.8 | My team reported and witnessed the scenes of desperation at the airport. |
| 0:51.9 | People crushed to death trying to get to sanctuary. Others swarming |
| 0:56.0 | over the runways as planes took off, some clinging to the fuselage of transporter planes. We watched |
| 1:02.5 | as thousands stood knee-deep in a canal filled with sewage, hoping to be seen, heard and allowed |
| 1:08.6 | onto a flight. Many of those feared for their lives as Western |
| 1:12.5 | forces withdrew from the country and the Taliban seized control. With nothing more than hand |
| 1:18.3 | luggage, those who did make it on board flights still had no idea what lay ahead or even where |
| 1:24.0 | they might end up. I'm Stuart Ramsey and in this this second episode of the Sky News podcast, out of Afghanistan, |
| 1:31.1 | we'll hear what happened next to the people who arrived here in Britain |
| 1:34.5 | and ask how many that are entitled to come may still be in Afghanistan. |
| 1:43.7 | Avsal used to work with the British military in Afghanistan |
| 1:46.5 | and is resettling in Britain with his family. |
| 1:50.6 | This has been a traumatic journey for them. |
| 1:52.7 | His wife was pregnant and they had three children |
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