Sunday Edition: Inside a Manufactured Migrant Crisis

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🗓️ 21 November 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Belarus has been accused of manufacturing a migrant crisis in Eastern Europe. For weeks, migrants have been gathering on that country’s border with Poland with hopes of crossing over to the European Union. Last week, CNN gained exclusive access to a migrant camp as violence broke out - we examine what comes next for the refugees and how Europe may respond. Guest: Matthew Chance, CNN Senior International Correspondent To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sunday edition of CNN Five Things. I'm David Rind.
0:07.0	We're following a very disturbing humanitarian crisis unfolding on the border between
0:12.4	Belarus and Poland.
0:14.0	Thousands of migrants, mostly from the Middle East, have been stranded in dire and
0:18.8	freezing conditions.
0:20.0	Stranded as they try to migrate deeper into parts of Europe.
0:24.0	Over the past few weeks you may have seen headlines about what's been going on in Eastern Europe.
0:29.0	However, not many journalists have been able to see the migrant crisis playing out there for themselves, especially from the Belarus side of the border.
0:35.8	Do you go back to Iraq?
0:38.0	No. No.
0:40.0	Our senior international correspondent Matthew Chance is one of them though.
0:44.0	His team got exclusive access to a migrant camp there, so let's spend five minutes with him to see what's been going on.
0:50.0	Where are you exactly, Matt?
0:52.0	Well, David, I'm in Minsk right now, the capital of Belarus.
0:57.0	But for the whole week, I've been right up there in that refugee camp on the border between Belarus and Poland.
1:03.8	There's a lot of people here chopping wood, getting ready to make fires to get them
1:09.4	through.
1:10.4	Extremely exposed.
1:11.7	Yeah, the weather's coming in. It's the middle of winter here, obviously, very cold indeed.
1:16.3	They're building these makeshift shelters because they were making shelters out of branches they chopped down from the trees and they were sort of camped right up against the
1:25.8	razor wire fence. It separates Belarus with Poland. Where are you from?
1:32.0	From Iraq?
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