Episode 3 Exodus: Our Journey

Since 2015, over 1.5 million refugees and migrants

have come to Europe.

But public opinion is turning against them

and the far right are gaining ground all over the continent.

The route into Europe has slammed shut.

Filmed over the last three years

and across 31 countries...

..this series sees Europe through the eyes of those

who thought they'd made it...

..and those who still dream of a better life.

They're against migrants, against asylum seekers,

and they don't want them to be in their country

and they're against Muslims, just as I understood something.

But they are the minorities and we are the majorities.

The other side is, they are the supporter of asylum seekers,

they like asylum seekers

and there are like 10,000 people.

What is this?

Stop it...

Hate. Stop it hate.

Oh, stop hating?

-Yes.

-OK, OK.

Let's end the silence. Let's save this city.

End the silence.

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Where do you guys come from?

From Afghanistan.

-What?

-Afghanistan.

-Oh, Afghanistan. Great. Great.

I had a good life in Afghanistan,

but when I was targeted by the Taliban, I had to flee.

When the borders opened, then just right away I flee from Afghanistan.

It took 45 days.

I passed from 11 countries.

Every border was very easy to pass.

One day I was in Germany,

another day in Sweden.

And I was feeling very good that I'm in Europe.

The European people are keeping dogs. They like dogs.

Everybody has a dog.

I many times told my friends, look how European people

are good and kind.

Here is freedom.

Freedom of everything.

You're going to Finland?

-Yep.

-OK, it's going to be cold.

-Oh.

-You want?

Yep, thank you.

Over there, you have some T-shirts, then we have some jackets.

Thank you.

Now I go to Finland.

Sorry, sir, here is Sweden or Finland?

-This is Finland.

-Oh.

-Yes.

Yes!

I had this image in my mind

that Europe is the paradise of the world.

This is winter in Finland.

How does it look?

Every place is covered by snow.

Every place is snow, snow, snow, snow.

If they give me asylum, everything will be all right.

But if I reject it,

then the journey which I made,

it would have been the greatest mistake of my life.

This is my room, 213B.

And this the room where I spend my days and nights.

Hey, salaam, Bashou.

They are my friends.

Yeah, here is Abbas.

He's one of my best friends. We come together from Afghanistan

and we are still in the same place, in the same room.

He is one of my other best friends.

Shukrullah, we came together from Greece

and he is busy to study Finnish language.

And a very nice view to outside.

And usually when it's sunny, it is more beautiful.

This is my bed and it is quite comfortable to sleep,

to make myself relax.

And the very important thing is the papers.

These are the papers how I schedule my programmes and my events.

To show you, for example,

I have an event called "Networking your way into a job, Part 1."

It is on September 26th.

The paper is here, so I usually do not forget my event.

I was thinking all that I need to do is just to reach Finland,

I will get asylum. I will get a job.

I will get a flat and I will start a normal life here.

But I was rejected.

I did appeal and I am waiting for decision.

Welcome.

Does it feel good to welcome your friends to your own house?

Yeah, there are a lot of locks

and this is for lovers.

A bicycle lock.

"Refugees go home."

News of a controversial deal,

that could see large numbers of Afghans...

Today's planned mass deportation is just the beginning.

More than 80,000 Afghans could be returned in the near future.

Asylum seekers say it's not safe for them to return.

The Taliban has been growing in strength.

18,000 civilians have been killed or injured since 2015.

Attacks in Kabul are common

but the bombs are getting bigger.

Kabul today, a battleground.

Afghanistan is experiencing an upsurge in violence

with almost daily...

Taliban still controls large swathes of the country...

Did you know that, like, one week ago,

I have moved to my friend's flat, Abbas, and I am living now here.

And it is like home.

Everything was OK since a few minutes go.

I received a call from my lawyer

and told me that "Sadiq, I have bad news for you,

"and the news was that...

.."immigration office and the administrative court

"have rejected you again.

"It means that you cannot stay in Finland."

So I don't know.

I don't know what to do.

I have locked the door.

Let me show you.

Look, in the door, there is like a chain

and I have put that on in order to lock,

or if police come, they cannot enter in the room

and I can escape from somewhere.

I have thought that if police come,

I will jump from here.

I have no choice.

If I don't jump, the police will catch me

and will send me by force to Afghanistan.

There are 7 billion people in the world

cannot do anything

for only 1 million displaced people, refugees?

Hey, 7 billion people in the world, you cannot help Sadiq?

There is not anybody

to raise their voice and say, "Hey, Sadiq, I'm with you,

"I'm going to support you?"

I'm establishing measures to keep radical Islamic terrorists

out of the United States of America.

America's entire refugee admissions programme has been suspended

for nationals from seven countries - Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya...

His first travel ban denied entry to all refugees

and anyone from seven mainly Muslim countries.

I call it extreme vetting, right? Extreme vetting.

I want extreme. It's going to be so tough.

It's going to be only America first.

Since I've been in the United States, I live here.

It's my apartment.

Yeah, this is my new neighbourhood after I leave Iraq

and the new life in the United States.

So this is my new neighbourhood, it's a compound.

Parking here, yeah.

It's nice. I like it so far.

Everything's cool and peaceful.

This is my picture when I was translator for the US army.

It was good job, but it was dangerous too.

But we like it.

We like the US army and we like to work with them, to serve them

and at the same time to serve the Iraqi civilians too

by translating and help them to understand each other.

This guy has been captured by the ISIS

and no-one know anything about him so far.

But I think they killed him.

When they know we are working with the US army,

we are the first target for them.

Some funny pictures.

What do you do now?

Right now I'm working at McDonald's.

It's time to work.

That's my mum.

And my brother, Thehan.

That's my sister, Layla.

-NEWSREADER:

-Some of the thousands of members of Iraq's Yezidi minority

fleeing the advance and the brutality of the Islamic State.

Militant fighters... The Islamic State continue to make gains...

5,000 men, women and children were taken.

The Yezidis are haunted by what happened to them.

..Islamic State's use of captured women as sex slaves.

In fact, it's even issued official guidance on the practice.

Women can be bought, sold, traded as gifts.

Happy and excited fighters.

"Today is the slave market, god willing," says one.

Prices for Yezidi women are discussed in detail.

A fighter laughs and says, "It costs more for a girl with blue eyes."

I am going to visit my lawyer

because my pressures are too much on me.

If within the next days my appeal is not sent to the Supreme Court,

then the police can come and take me.

OK, have a seat.

What do you think about my case?

Will the Supreme Court take this or not?

Because I hear that they only take 1 from 1,000 cases.

It's true, the highest court of administration,

they don't take most of the cases.

It's very few which they take and therefore we have to give them

more details in order to succeed. But they do take positions.

We had one client and we gave good reasons

and they stopped the process.

-In Supreme Court?

-In Supreme Court, yes.

Can I show these pictures that I have been working with?

A German soldier which I was working with.

And...here is my uniform which I was working as an electrician.

-Where is this picture taken?

-It was in US embassy.

And there we can see the ID card.

There is another soldier.

And here is Finnish soldier.

-It is a Finnish soldier.

-OK.

-Yeah.

Anybody who works with foreigners, they, the Taliban, know about them.

And the Taliban brutally slaughter them.

It happened to many of my friends.

If the decision doesn't go Sadiq's way, what would happen to him?

Well, basically, then the state tries to send him

back to Afghanistan and it can happen either voluntarily or if

the person doesn't accept that, then they try to make it involuntarily.

-By force.

-By force, yeah.

Then the person can be sent back.

-NEWSREADER:

-"Send them home, send them home," they chant,

in Dresden's Neumarkt.

SHE SPEAKS FRENCH

-NEWSREADER:

-Austria looks set to be the latest European nation to return

a strong showing for an anti-immigration party.

They're now the third-biggest party in the Bundestag...

..right-wing alternative for Germany...

..anti-Islam, anti-immigrant, anti-euro.

The far right is now part of the German establishment.

-TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN:

-We are facing a huge task.

The AfD entering parliament.

Its leader recently suggested German border guards shoot refugees.

Supreme Court took my case...

and gave me another chance to be interviewed by immigration office.

And I call that the interview of my life.

I'm waiting for my fate to be told.

Europe either gave me a life or death.

I hope they gave me life.