0:00:04 > 0:00:09Since 2015, over 1.5 million refugees and migrants
0:00:09 > 0:00:11have come to Europe.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34But public opinion is turning against them
0:00:34 > 0:00:38and the far right are gaining ground all over the continent.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57The route into Europe has slammed shut.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08Filmed over the last three years
0:01:08 > 0:01:10and across 31 countries...
0:01:12 > 0:01:15..this series sees Europe through the eyes of those
0:01:15 > 0:01:17who thought they'd made it...
0:01:25 > 0:01:27..and those who still dream of a better life.
0:09:23 > 0:09:28They're against migrants, against asylum seekers,
0:09:28 > 0:09:30and they don't want them to be in their country
0:09:30 > 0:09:35and they're against Muslims, just as I understood something.
0:09:37 > 0:09:42But they are the minorities and we are the majorities.
0:09:43 > 0:09:50The other side is, they are the supporter of asylum seekers,
0:09:50 > 0:09:52they like asylum seekers
0:09:52 > 0:09:55and there are like 10,000 people.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09What is this?
0:10:09 > 0:10:11Stop it...
0:10:11 > 0:10:14Hate. Stop it hate.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17Oh, stop hating?
0:10:17 > 0:10:18- Yes.- OK, OK.
0:10:28 > 0:10:32Let's end the silence. Let's save this city.
0:10:32 > 0:10:33End the silence.
0:10:36 > 0:10:38WHISTLE BLOWS
0:10:44 > 0:10:46WHISTLES BLOW
0:11:02 > 0:11:03Where do you guys come from?
0:11:03 > 0:11:04From Afghanistan.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07- What?- Afghanistan.- Oh, Afghanistan. Great. Great.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20I had a good life in Afghanistan,
0:11:20 > 0:11:26but when I was targeted by the Taliban, I had to flee.
0:11:26 > 0:11:32When the borders opened, then just right away I flee from Afghanistan.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38It took 45 days.
0:11:39 > 0:11:43I passed from 11 countries.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49Every border was very easy to pass.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54One day I was in Germany,
0:11:54 > 0:11:56another day in Sweden.
0:11:56 > 0:12:01And I was feeling very good that I'm in Europe.
0:12:03 > 0:12:09The European people are keeping dogs. They like dogs.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12Everybody has a dog.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18I many times told my friends, look how European people
0:12:18 > 0:12:21are good and kind.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29Here is freedom.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31Freedom of everything.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38You're going to Finland?
0:12:38 > 0:12:41- Yep.- OK, it's going to be cold.
0:12:41 > 0:12:42- Oh.- You want?
0:12:42 > 0:12:44Yep, thank you.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47Over there, you have some T-shirts, then we have some jackets.
0:12:47 > 0:12:48Thank you.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54Now I go to Finland.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06Sorry, sir, here is Sweden or Finland?
0:13:06 > 0:13:07- This is Finland.- Oh.- Yes.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Yes!
0:13:13 > 0:13:17I had this image in my mind
0:13:17 > 0:13:23that Europe is the paradise of the world.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28This is winter in Finland.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30How does it look?
0:13:30 > 0:13:32Every place is covered by snow.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35Every place is snow, snow, snow, snow.
0:13:37 > 0:13:42If they give me asylum, everything will be all right.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47But if I reject it,
0:13:47 > 0:13:51then the journey which I made,
0:13:51 > 0:13:56it would have been the greatest mistake of my life.
0:14:05 > 0:14:09This is my room, 213B.
0:14:09 > 0:14:13And this the room where I spend my days and nights.
0:14:13 > 0:14:15Hey, salaam, Bashou.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19They are my friends.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22Yeah, here is Abbas.
0:14:22 > 0:14:27He's one of my best friends. We come together from Afghanistan
0:14:27 > 0:14:30and we are still in the same place, in the same room.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35He is one of my other best friends.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38Shukrullah, we came together from Greece
0:14:38 > 0:14:42and he is busy to study Finnish language.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45And a very nice view to outside.
0:14:45 > 0:14:50And usually when it's sunny, it is more beautiful.
0:14:50 > 0:14:58This is my bed and it is quite comfortable to sleep,
0:14:58 > 0:15:00to make myself relax.
0:15:00 > 0:15:04And the very important thing is the papers.
0:15:04 > 0:15:09These are the papers how I schedule my programmes and my events.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13To show you, for example,
0:15:13 > 0:15:18I have an event called "Networking your way into a job, Part 1."
0:15:18 > 0:15:21It is on September 26th.
0:15:21 > 0:15:27The paper is here, so I usually do not forget my event.
0:15:29 > 0:15:34I was thinking all that I need to do is just to reach Finland,
0:15:34 > 0:15:39I will get asylum. I will get a job.
0:15:39 > 0:15:44I will get a flat and I will start a normal life here.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51But I was rejected.
0:15:53 > 0:15:57I did appeal and I am waiting for decision.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49Welcome.
0:17:24 > 0:17:28Does it feel good to welcome your friends to your own house?
0:18:48 > 0:18:52Yeah, there are a lot of locks
0:18:52 > 0:18:55and this is for lovers.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06A bicycle lock.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11"Refugees go home."
0:19:37 > 0:19:39News of a controversial deal,
0:19:39 > 0:19:41that could see large numbers of Afghans...
0:19:41 > 0:19:45Today's planned mass deportation is just the beginning.
0:19:45 > 0:19:49More than 80,000 Afghans could be returned in the near future.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59Asylum seekers say it's not safe for them to return.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02The Taliban has been growing in strength.
0:20:02 > 0:20:0618,000 civilians have been killed or injured since 2015.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12Attacks in Kabul are common
0:20:12 > 0:20:15but the bombs are getting bigger.
0:20:15 > 0:20:19Kabul today, a battleground.
0:20:21 > 0:20:25Afghanistan is experiencing an upsurge in violence
0:20:25 > 0:20:26with almost daily...
0:20:26 > 0:20:29Taliban still controls large swathes of the country...
0:20:37 > 0:20:39Did you know that, like, one week ago,
0:20:39 > 0:20:46I have moved to my friend's flat, Abbas, and I am living now here.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49And it is like home.
0:20:49 > 0:20:55Everything was OK since a few minutes go.
0:20:55 > 0:20:59I received a call from my lawyer
0:20:59 > 0:21:05and told me that "Sadiq, I have bad news for you,
0:21:05 > 0:21:09"and the news was that...
0:21:11 > 0:21:18.."immigration office and the administrative court
0:21:18 > 0:21:21"have rejected you again.
0:21:21 > 0:21:25"It means that you cannot stay in Finland."
0:21:28 > 0:21:31So I don't know.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34I don't know what to do.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36I have locked the door.
0:21:36 > 0:21:39Let me show you.
0:21:45 > 0:21:50Look, in the door, there is like a chain
0:21:50 > 0:21:54and I have put that on in order to lock,
0:21:54 > 0:21:59or if police come, they cannot enter in the room
0:21:59 > 0:22:02and I can escape from somewhere.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12I have thought that if police come,
0:22:12 > 0:22:17I will jump from here.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22I have no choice.
0:22:23 > 0:22:27If I don't jump, the police will catch me
0:22:27 > 0:22:31and will send me by force to Afghanistan.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49There are 7 billion people in the world
0:22:49 > 0:22:52cannot do anything
0:22:52 > 0:22:57for only 1 million displaced people, refugees?
0:22:58 > 0:23:04Hey, 7 billion people in the world, you cannot help Sadiq?
0:23:04 > 0:23:07There is not anybody
0:23:07 > 0:23:09to raise their voice and say, "Hey, Sadiq, I'm with you,
0:23:09 > 0:23:12"I'm going to support you?"
0:23:31 > 0:23:37I'm establishing measures to keep radical Islamic terrorists
0:23:37 > 0:23:41out of the United States of America.
0:23:41 > 0:23:45America's entire refugee admissions programme has been suspended
0:23:45 > 0:23:48for nationals from seven countries - Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya...
0:23:48 > 0:23:50His first travel ban denied entry to all refugees
0:23:50 > 0:23:53and anyone from seven mainly Muslim countries.
0:23:57 > 0:24:02I call it extreme vetting, right? Extreme vetting.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05I want extreme. It's going to be so tough.
0:24:05 > 0:24:10It's going to be only America first.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34Since I've been in the United States, I live here.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36It's my apartment.
0:24:43 > 0:24:49Yeah, this is my new neighbourhood after I leave Iraq
0:24:49 > 0:24:52and the new life in the United States.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55So this is my new neighbourhood, it's a compound.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58Parking here, yeah.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01It's nice. I like it so far.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04Everything's cool and peaceful.
0:25:19 > 0:25:24This is my picture when I was translator for the US army.
0:25:26 > 0:25:30It was good job, but it was dangerous too.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32But we like it.
0:25:32 > 0:25:37We like the US army and we like to work with them, to serve them
0:25:37 > 0:25:41and at the same time to serve the Iraqi civilians too
0:25:41 > 0:25:46by translating and help them to understand each other.
0:25:54 > 0:25:59This guy has been captured by the ISIS
0:25:59 > 0:26:03and no-one know anything about him so far.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07But I think they killed him.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09When they know we are working with the US army,
0:26:09 > 0:26:12we are the first target for them.
0:26:18 > 0:26:19Some funny pictures.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33What do you do now?
0:26:33 > 0:26:37Right now I'm working at McDonald's.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56It's time to work.
0:28:52 > 0:28:54That's my mum.
0:28:59 > 0:29:01And my brother, Thehan.
0:29:03 > 0:29:05That's my sister, Layla.
0:31:04 > 0:31:08- NEWSREADER:- Some of the thousands of members of Iraq's Yezidi minority
0:31:08 > 0:31:12fleeing the advance and the brutality of the Islamic State.
0:31:12 > 0:31:16Militant fighters... The Islamic State continue to make gains...
0:31:16 > 0:31:195,000 men, women and children were taken.
0:31:19 > 0:31:21The Yezidis are haunted by what happened to them.
0:31:31 > 0:31:34..Islamic State's use of captured women as sex slaves.
0:31:34 > 0:31:37In fact, it's even issued official guidance on the practice.
0:31:38 > 0:31:41Women can be bought, sold, traded as gifts.
0:31:44 > 0:31:46Happy and excited fighters.
0:31:46 > 0:31:49"Today is the slave market, god willing," says one.
0:31:51 > 0:31:54Prices for Yezidi women are discussed in detail.
0:31:57 > 0:32:00A fighter laughs and says, "It costs more for a girl with blue eyes."
0:44:40 > 0:44:44I am going to visit my lawyer
0:44:44 > 0:44:48because my pressures are too much on me.
0:44:48 > 0:44:54If within the next days my appeal is not sent to the Supreme Court,
0:44:54 > 0:44:55then the police can come and take me.
0:45:10 > 0:45:11OK, have a seat.
0:45:19 > 0:45:21What do you think about my case?
0:45:21 > 0:45:24Will the Supreme Court take this or not?
0:45:24 > 0:45:29Because I hear that they only take 1 from 1,000 cases.
0:45:29 > 0:45:32It's true, the highest court of administration,
0:45:32 > 0:45:35they don't take most of the cases.
0:45:35 > 0:45:42It's very few which they take and therefore we have to give them
0:45:42 > 0:45:49more details in order to succeed. But they do take positions.
0:45:49 > 0:45:52We had one client and we gave good reasons
0:45:52 > 0:45:55and they stopped the process.
0:45:55 > 0:45:57- In Supreme Court? - In Supreme Court, yes.
0:45:57 > 0:46:01Can I show these pictures that I have been working with?
0:46:04 > 0:46:06A German soldier which I was working with.
0:46:07 > 0:46:15And...here is my uniform which I was working as an electrician.
0:46:16 > 0:46:21- Where is this picture taken? - It was in US embassy.
0:46:21 > 0:46:24And there we can see the ID card.
0:46:26 > 0:46:28There is another soldier.
0:46:30 > 0:46:33And here is Finnish soldier.
0:46:34 > 0:46:36- It is a Finnish soldier.- OK.- Yeah.
0:46:38 > 0:46:42Anybody who works with foreigners, they, the Taliban, know about them.
0:46:42 > 0:46:46And the Taliban brutally slaughter them.
0:46:46 > 0:46:48It happened to many of my friends.
0:46:52 > 0:46:55If the decision doesn't go Sadiq's way, what would happen to him?
0:46:56 > 0:47:02Well, basically, then the state tries to send him
0:47:02 > 0:47:08back to Afghanistan and it can happen either voluntarily or if
0:47:08 > 0:47:14the person doesn't accept that, then they try to make it involuntarily.
0:47:14 > 0:47:16- By force. - By force, yeah.
0:47:18 > 0:47:20Then the person can be sent back.
0:49:25 > 0:49:28- NEWSREADER:- "Send them home, send them home," they chant,
0:49:28 > 0:49:30in Dresden's Neumarkt.
0:49:30 > 0:49:32SHE SPEAKS FRENCH
0:49:40 > 0:49:44- NEWSREADER:- Austria looks set to be the latest European nation to return
0:49:44 > 0:49:47a strong showing for an anti-immigration party.
0:49:50 > 0:49:53They're now the third-biggest party in the Bundestag...
0:49:53 > 0:49:55..right-wing alternative for Germany...
0:49:55 > 0:49:58..anti-Islam, anti-immigrant, anti-euro.
0:49:58 > 0:50:01The far right is now part of the German establishment.
0:50:01 > 0:50:05- TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN: - We are facing a huge task.
0:50:05 > 0:50:06The AfD entering parliament.
0:50:06 > 0:50:11Its leader recently suggested German border guards shoot refugees.
0:54:00 > 0:54:03Supreme Court took my case...
0:54:03 > 0:54:09and gave me another chance to be interviewed by immigration office.
0:54:10 > 0:54:14And I call that the interview of my life.
0:54:37 > 0:54:39I'm waiting for my fate to be told.
0:54:41 > 0:54:44Europe either gave me a life or death.
0:54:47 > 0:54:49I hope they gave me life.