Trapped in a dead end
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Having reached Greece after often perilous journeys, many migrants now find that their hoped-for route north is blocked. Danny Savage meets some of those who have to live in tents in Athens, and on the Greek-Macedonian border with little hope of reaching their final destinations. Many refugees have come from Syria, where neighbourhoods in some cities have been reduced to rubble. Warda al-Jawahiry visits Homs, parts of which have been completely bombed out. Yet there are those who still live there, and bear emotional scars that are as real as the physical destruction. In the Ethiopian capital Addis Abeba, James Jeffrey goes for his early morning run, and finds he's not alone. For early dawn is the time when hyenas finish their night time scavenging in the city. Chris Bockman is in the Spanish enclave of Llivia - a small town completely surrounded by France, but with surprisingly few French speakers. And in Mongolia many young people are giving up the outdoor life of herding sheep on the steppe, and reading novels by candlelight in a yurt at night, for that of a polluted city. Anthony Denselow meets some of them.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading this program from the BBC. |
| 0:04.0 | This edition of From Our Own Correspondent |
| 0:07.0 | was first broadcast on the 3rd of March 2016. |
| 0:11.0 | It is introduced by Kate A.D. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello. Today, Greece, a cul-de-sac on the migrant route. |
| 0:18.0 | We peer through the barbed wire at the Macedonian border. |
| 0:22.0 | And in the Syrian city of Homs, almost reduced to rubble, |
| 0:26.0 | we meet those who still manage to live there. |
| 0:29.0 | In Ethiopia, our correspondent encounters hyenas, whose bite is stronger than a great white shark, but who |
| 0:37.0 | fancy coming along on the early morning run. |
| 0:41.0 | There's a little Spanish town that got left behind in France a tiny enclave with few French |
| 0:45.8 | speakers but served by up to four different police forces. |
| 0:51.2 | And another migration, this time in Mongolia, with young people leaving the herdsman life on the steps and heading for the shantytown. |
| 1:00.0 | The European Commission has announced a 540 million pound emergency aid programme |
| 1:05.6 | to help the worst affected countries in Europe cope with the migrant crisis. |
| 1:10.0 | If approved by Member States, the three-year plan would allow humanitarian funds to be spent in the same way in the EU as in emergencies outside Europe. |
| 1:20.0 | The money is intended to help Greece deal with the influx of tens of thousands of refugees and migrants |
| 1:26.0 | which has placed a massive strain on the country's resources. |
| 1:29.0 | Greece has been used as a stepping stone by many on the way north to Germany and elsewhere. |
| 1:35.0 | But with Austria, Serbia and Macedonia virtually closing their borders to most migrants, |
| 1:41.0 | Greece is becoming a dead end. |
| 1:43.6 | Danny Savage has been meeting some of those who now find themselves stuck. |
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