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Welcome to a special edition of Reporters. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:20 | |
I am Simon Jones, here at the Jungle camp in Calais. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:24 | |
As the French authorities complete their operation to clear the site, | 0:00:24 | 0:00:30 | |
we have a range of reports looking at the issues now facing France | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
and Britain and what lessons Britain can learn from the crisis. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:35 | |
Coming up, the exodus begins. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:37 | |
Lucy Williamson joins some of the thousands of migrants | 0:00:37 | 0:00:42 | |
as they leave the Calais camp in search of a better life and finds | 0:00:42 | 0:00:46 | |
many desperate to get out. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:47 | |
Their motivation for coming here to Calais was once | 0:00:47 | 0:00:49 | |
all about the final destination, their dreams of England. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:53 | |
Now many are ready to go anywhere just to get out. | 0:00:53 | 0:01:00 | |
Life after the Jungle. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:04 | |
Hugh Schofield reports from a reception centre for refugees | 0:01:04 | 0:01:08 | |
from the camp near Paris. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
And welcome to Britain. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:12 | |
Daniel Sandford follows the hundreds of children who have arrived | 0:01:12 | 0:01:14 | |
in the UK but finds reaction to their arrival mixed. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
It's not their doing, not their fault. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:20 | |
I have got a little chap of my own. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:24 | |
Ultimately you want any child to be safe. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:26 | |
Send them back where they come from. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:28 | |
Why is it our problem? | 0:01:28 | 0:01:29 | |
We cannot look after our own. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:35 | |
It has become a potent symbol of Europe's migration crisis. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:38 | |
This week a major operation began to clear this massive migrant camp | 0:01:38 | 0:01:40 | |
here in Calais known as the Jungle. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:44 | |
Many of its 7,000 or so inhabitants began queueing for buses before | 0:01:44 | 0:01:47 | |
dawn to be resettled in centres across the country. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:51 | |
They face either deportation or the opportunity to apply for asylum. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:54 | |
Calais's position as a gateway to Britain has given it | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
an irresistible magnetism for many seeking a new life. | 0:01:57 | 0:01:59 | |
Lucy Williamson was here in Calais as the exodus began. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
They crossed continents to get here. | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
Thousands queued to leave. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:16 | |
Hours standing in the cold, a better bet than one more day | 0:02:16 | 0:02:18 | |
in the Jungle camp. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:19 | |
The reward, a seat on one of 60 buses. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:23 | |
But a ticket out of Calais does not guarantee asylum, either | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
in France or in the UK. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:31 | |
Even those, like this man, who are impatient to leave, | 0:02:31 | 0:02:33 | |
reserve the right to come back. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:35 | |
I will go with the people, and maybe I will come | 0:02:35 | 0:02:37 | |
back and try again. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:42 | |
I like France but it is not my dream. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:46 | |
Next to him, this man says he is finished with his dreams | 0:02:46 | 0:02:49 | |
of England and wants to settle in France. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:51 | |
I hate England now, he said. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
They do not like people from the Jungle and they closed | 0:02:54 | 0:02:57 | |
the border. | 0:02:57 | 0:03:02 | |
People have been queueing here since 4:00am to board one | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
of the buses bound for reception centres across France. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:09 | |
Their motivation for coming here to Calais was once | 0:03:09 | 0:03:12 | |
all about the final destination, their dreams of England. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:15 | |
Now many are ready to go anywhere just to get out. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:20 | |
Inside the processing centre, people are split into queues. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:25 | |
The vulnerable, families, lone children, and everyone else. | 0:03:25 | 0:03:31 | |
Their names, ages and origins noted, but not checked. | 0:03:31 | 0:03:33 | |
They are 14. | 0:03:33 | 0:03:36 | |
They should be there. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:39 | |
They are given a choice of destination. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:41 | |
French names in unfamiliar places. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:42 | |
A new temporary address. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:46 | |
Hours later, migrants began arriving at towns across France, watched, | 0:03:46 | 0:03:52 | |
warily, by their new neighbours, here in the village of Chardonnay. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:55 | |
"What are all these young men going to do | 0:03:55 | 0:03:57 | |
in a place like this?" | 0:03:57 | 0:03:58 | |
one said. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:00 | |
There is not even a shop here. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:05 | |
President Hollande said he wanted to send the message that Calais | 0:04:05 | 0:04:08 | |
was not a staging post for migrants, but a dead end. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:13 | |
Many here say that much is already clear. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:18 | |
The UK has become harder to reach, and there was optimism among some | 0:04:18 | 0:04:21 | |
of those who have decided to leave. | 0:04:21 | 0:04:27 | |
But a local MP told us that did not mean Britain's role here was over. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:35 | |
TRANSLATION: It is an international scandal that there are | 0:04:35 | 0:04:37 | |
several hundred children, some as young as ten, | 0:04:37 | 0:04:39 | |
stuck here, despite having family in the UK. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:41 | |
Britain is not meeting its obligations. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:42 | |
Among those joining the queues were four | 0:04:42 | 0:04:44 | |
siblings from Afghanistan, clinging to an | 0:04:44 | 0:04:45 | |
English-speaking friend. | 0:04:45 | 0:04:54 | |
Their mother had asked him to take her children and make their case | 0:04:54 | 0:04:57 | |
for asylum in England. | 0:04:57 | 0:04:58 | |
Four small lives among the thousands saying goodbye to Calais, | 0:04:58 | 0:05:00 | |
unsure of what the future has in store. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:02 | |
Lucy Williamson, BBC News, Calais. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:03 | |
The next stop for most people who have left the Jungle will be one | 0:05:07 | 0:05:11 | |
of the many reception centres for refugees across France. | 0:05:11 | 0:05:15 | |
The town of Villeblevin is one of those that is taking migrants | 0:05:15 | 0:05:18 | |
from the Calais camp, where they have been housed | 0:05:18 | 0:05:21 | |
in an old convent. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:22 | |
From there, Hugh Schofield sent this report. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:26 | |
In the grounds of a former convent in rural France, Afghans | 0:05:27 | 0:05:30 | |
are teaching Sudanese to play the English game of cricket. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:39 | |
Three days after they arrived from Calais, the 45 migrants | 0:05:39 | 0:05:42 | |
are slowly acclimatising to the gentler, safer world | 0:05:42 | 0:05:44 | |
of northern Burgundy. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:46 | |
There are sports - before, this was a holiday camp | 0:05:46 | 0:05:48 | |
for Paris schoolchildren - television, and regular hot meals, | 0:05:48 | 0:05:50 | |
laid on by the Red Cross and French social services. | 0:05:50 | 0:06:00 | |
Talking to the people here, you get the sensation | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
they are pretty shell-shocked. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:05 | |
They have no idea where they are in France, | 0:06:05 | 0:06:07 | |
but one thing is clear, they do want to stay in France. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:10 | |
They have given up on the idea of ever getting to England. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:12 | |
I love you France. | 0:06:13 | 0:06:13 | |
I love you, France. | 0:06:13 | 0:06:15 | |
I love you. | 0:06:15 | 0:06:19 | |
Once, they saw France as just a stepping stone | 0:06:19 | 0:06:21 | |
on their route to the UK. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:22 | |
No more. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:23 | |
Now it is the country that is offering them the refuge | 0:06:23 | 0:06:26 | |
that was turned down by London. | 0:06:26 | 0:06:27 | |
I like France. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:32 | |
The government in France is very good. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:34 | |
But the government in England is no good. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:36 | |
They close the door to all refugees. | 0:06:36 | 0:06:43 | |
For now, the migrants are staying inside the convent grounds. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:47 | |
They are worried about local reaction. | 0:06:47 | 0:06:52 | |
Not unreasonably, because the people of the village of Villeblevin | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
were highly suspicious when told of their uninvited guest. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:57 | |
The deputy mayor told me that the decision to house | 0:06:57 | 0:07:00 | |
the migrants here had been taken by Paris without any attempt | 0:07:00 | 0:07:03 | |
to consult with the people who live here. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:06 | |
It was fine for the migrants to walk around the village, he said, | 0:07:06 | 0:07:09 | |
but only as long as they left the people here alone. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:12 | |
The people were afraid. | 0:07:12 | 0:07:15 | |
What of the children walking home from school in the dark | 0:07:15 | 0:07:17 | |
and bumping into the migrants? | 0:07:17 | 0:07:20 | |
Maybe they are very good people but we do not know anything | 0:07:20 | 0:07:23 | |
about them and it is wrong to take this kind of risk. | 0:07:23 | 0:07:29 | |
The fears are exaggerated. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:32 | |
Centres like this may only be open for a few months, | 0:07:32 | 0:07:35 | |
the time needed to process applications for asylum in France, | 0:07:35 | 0:07:38 | |
after which the migrants will be moved on. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:42 | |
In the meantime, it is more of the boredom that they have grown | 0:07:42 | 0:07:45 | |
so accustomed to. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:46 | |
Now a safer, perhaps even a happier kind of boredom. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:48 | |
Hugh Schofield, BBC News. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:51 | |
Hundreds of children from the Calais camp have now arrived in Britain. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:59 | |
They include dozens of girls said to be at risk of sexual | 0:07:59 | 0:08:02 | |
exploitation, resettled under an agreement to help | 0:08:02 | 0:08:05 | |
particularly vulnerable children who have no links to the UK. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:08 | |
Daniel Sandford reports. | 0:08:08 | 0:08:12 | |
Journey's end for one recent resident of the Calais Jungle, | 0:08:12 | 0:08:15 | |
a pizza takeaway in South London. | 0:08:15 | 0:08:22 | |
Haris, who says he is 16, fled the fighting in Afghanistan | 0:08:22 | 0:08:25 | |
and travelled over land and sea for over a year. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:27 | |
Last Monday, he was brought to Britain to join his uncle, | 0:08:27 | 0:08:30 | |
who owns the restaurant. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:33 | |
He told me he was trying to forget everything that had happened to him. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:36 | |
All the difficulties and problems should go away soon, | 0:08:36 | 0:08:39 | |
now I am starting a new life, he said. | 0:08:39 | 0:08:41 | |
Although some new arrivals will go into care or foster homes, | 0:08:41 | 0:08:44 | |
Haris will stay with his relatives. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:49 | |
I am not here just to be an uncle to him. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:53 | |
I am here to be his mum, his dad, his brother, | 0:08:53 | 0:08:56 | |
his sister, his friend. | 0:08:56 | 0:08:59 | |
I will support him emotionally, that is what he needs. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
Secretary Amber Rudd. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:07 | |
The Home Secretary updated the Commons on what Britain had done | 0:09:07 | 0:09:09 | |
in the last fortnight in the buildup to the closure of the Jungle. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
We have transferred almost 200 children. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:14 | |
This includes more than 60 girls, many of whom had been identified | 0:09:14 | 0:09:18 | |
as being at high risk of sexual exploitation. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:20 | |
They are receiving the care and support they need in the UK. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:25 | |
She said hundreds more children from the Jungle had been | 0:09:25 | 0:09:29 | |
interviewed, and more would come to the UK in the coming weeks. | 0:09:29 | 0:09:33 | |
These were some of the arrivals from Calais last week. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:38 | |
The Home Office pays local authorities up to ?40,000 per child, | 0:09:38 | 0:09:41 | |
but councils say the true cost is sometimes much more. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:45 | |
Here at a discreet location in Devon, 20 of the recently | 0:09:45 | 0:09:48 | |
arrived boys are staying at a respite centre. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:58 | |
Decisions are being made about whether they should go | 0:09:59 | 0:10:01 | |
into care or join family members. | 0:10:01 | 0:10:02 | |
The local reaction, mixed. | 0:10:02 | 0:10:03 | |
It is not their doing, not their fault. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:05 | |
I have a little chap of my own and ultimately you want | 0:10:05 | 0:10:08 | |
any child to be safe. | 0:10:08 | 0:10:09 | |
If we have got the ability to do that, then why not? | 0:10:09 | 0:10:12 | |
Send them back where they come from, why is it our problem? | 0:10:12 | 0:10:15 | |
We cannot look after our own so why look after everybody else? | 0:10:15 | 0:10:18 | |
It is disgusting. | 0:10:18 | 0:10:20 | |
Back in London, Haris, who is desperate to return | 0:10:20 | 0:10:24 | |
to education after his time in the Jungle, has his first meeting | 0:10:24 | 0:10:27 | |
with immigration officials tomorrow, as he starts the formal | 0:10:27 | 0:10:29 | |
process of claiming refugee status in Britain. | 0:10:29 | 0:10:31 | |
Daniel Sandford, BBC News, South London. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:34 | |
That is all from this special edition of Reporters for this week. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:41 | |
From me, Simon Jones, here at the now empty jungle camp | 0:10:41 | 0:10:43 | |
in Calais, goodbye for now. | 0:10:43 | 0:10:47 | |
Good | 0:11:05 | 0:11:06 | |
Good evening. | 0:11:06 | 0:11:06 | |
Good evening. It | 0:11:06 | 0:11:06 |