09/03/2017

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:00:11. > :00:14.Good morning, I'm Ricky, and this is Newsround.

:00:15. > :00:16.First, what should Britain do about the children, escaping war,

:00:17. > :00:19.who have travelled to Europe on their own?

:00:20. > :00:22.It's part of a big argument about whether the UK has already

:00:23. > :00:25.done enough to help child refugees, or whether it should do more.

:00:26. > :00:29.Jenny went to meet one politician who was a child refugee himself,

:00:30. > :00:47.and has been campaigning to allow more lone children into the UK.

:00:48. > :00:55.This was the Europe 80 years ago. Many people were fleeing the Nazis,

:00:56. > :01:01.who killed many people in Europe in what is now known as the Holocaust.

:01:02. > :01:08.Seven out of ten Jewish people living in Europe were killed. Alf

:01:09. > :01:11.dubs lived in a country called Czechoslovakia and he is now a

:01:12. > :01:17.politician in the UK. I was six years old, living in Prague, a

:01:18. > :01:20.capital city. The Germans occupied Prague in 1939 things began to

:01:21. > :01:32.change and there were German soldiers everywhere.

:01:33. > :01:36.My mother was refused permission to leave. She put me on a kindergarten

:01:37. > :01:39.transport, trains taking children from Germany, Austria, and

:01:40. > :01:44.Czechoslovakia to Britain. I was the youngest person on the train, maybe

:01:45. > :01:50.150 children on this train. We went in the night. On the night boat to

:01:51. > :02:00.halogen then we went on the train to live station. How important was it

:02:01. > :02:10.to you? -- Liverpool station. I think kindergarten sports saved My

:02:11. > :02:16.Life. There are many children like this in Europe today. I think it is

:02:17. > :02:21.tough. These children have no one to protect them. There is a campaign to

:02:22. > :02:25.get some of these unaccompanied children to this country, to safety.

:02:26. > :02:29.What did you hope would happen? I hope several thousand of them should

:02:30. > :02:34.come to Britain. I never said they should all come to Britain will stop

:02:35. > :02:38.I hoped they would find safety, love and affection after all the terrible

:02:39. > :02:43.experiences. The Government said 200 loan children had been brought to

:02:44. > :02:47.Britain under the scheme, set up by Alf dubs and it would close after

:02:48. > :02:52.another 150 would be settled in the UK. There was a row about whether

:02:53. > :03:00.the UK Government has done enough to help. Alf Dubs does not think so. I

:03:01. > :03:03.am disappointed. For these children, there was hope for the better life.

:03:04. > :03:11.I hope the Government is feeling ashamed. The Government says it has

:03:12. > :03:13.helped unaccompanied children and it encourages children to make a

:03:14. > :03:19.dangerous journey across Europe. What do you say to that? I do not

:03:20. > :03:24.agree with the arguments. We can take some, we have to be asked. You

:03:25. > :03:27.cannot say, because some might come we will ignore the ones in Europe

:03:28. > :03:33.anyway for some it is awful. You cannot turn our backs on them. What

:03:34. > :03:38.do you think will happen? We need to look very hard at every opportunity

:03:39. > :03:39.to change their minds. We asked the Government to respond. They told

:03:40. > :03:51.us... 20,000 Syrians will be getting a new

:03:52. > :03:56.home in the UK by 2020. Should Arsene Wenger

:03:57. > :03:58.stay or should he go? That's the question on the lips

:03:59. > :04:01.of many Arsenal fans this week after the team's humiliating 10-2

:04:02. > :04:04.aggregate defeat to Bayern Munich Gunners fans in London have been

:04:05. > :04:15.telling us what they think. Arsene Wenger should leave Arsenal

:04:16. > :04:20.because he lost 3-1 against Liverpool due to the fact he had put

:04:21. > :04:24.Sanchez on the bench. Arsenal are not doing well, so I think he should

:04:25. > :04:29.have a break and come back to football. We are not winning any

:04:30. > :04:32.matches and Arsenal are not going to get into the Champions League next

:04:33. > :04:59.year for the big players signing like Koscielny and Sanchez are going

:05:00. > :05:01.to leave at some point and we need to get back winning more matches.