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Welcome to a special edition of Reporters. | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
I'm Simon Jones - here at the Jungle camp in Calais. | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
As the French authorities complete the operation to clear the site, | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
we've a range of reports looking at the issues now facing France | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
and Britain, and what lessons Britain can learn from the crisis. | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
-- what lessons Europe can learn from the crisis. | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
Secunder Kermani joins some of the thousands of migrants | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
and finds many desperate to get out. in search of a better life - | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
TRANSLATION: The life in the Jungle is no good, it's no good. | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
Life after the Jungle - Hugh Schofield reports | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
on the reception centre for refugees from a camp near Paris. | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
Welcome to Britain - Daniel Sandford follows the hundreds | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
of children who have arrived in the UK, and finds reaction | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
It's not their doing, it's not their fault, | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
and I've got a little chap of my own and ultimately you want | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
We can see people streaming towards us across the fields | :01:16. | :01:25. | |
and I can hear shouts of men and the cries of children all moving | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
The Balkan route - Fergal Keane traces | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
the migrants' journey, from the Hungarian border to Calais, | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
and finds they are still coming in their thousands, | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
And the last stand, as French authorities declare | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
the closure a success - Lucy Williamson meets the few | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
Those who want to go have left, those who are still here | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
It's become a potent symbol of Europe's migration crisis. | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
This week, an operation began to clear this massive migrant camp | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
Many of the 7000 or so inhabitants began queueing for buses before dawn | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
to be resettled in centres across the country. | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
They face either deportation or the opportunity | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
Calais's position as a gateway to Britain has given it | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
an irresistible magnetism to many seeking a new life. | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
Secunder Kermani was here in Calais as the exodus began. | :02:30. | :02:45. | |
They started queueing well before dawn, after months - | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
and in some cases years - in the camp they call the Jungle, | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
hundreds of refugees and migrants waited to board buses taking them | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
In effect giving up on their dreams of coming to Britain, and applying | :02:56. | :03:04. | |
Clutching his artwork, this man from Darfur | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
displayed his wounds from life in the Jungle. | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
Now fed up of trying to board lorries to Britain. | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
And now you are happy to go anywhere? | :03:18. | :03:33. | |
Happy too much, because of this life, you see. | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
In separate queues were the camp's unaccompanied minors, | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
waiting to be processed and taken to a secure area of the Calais camp. | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
Many with relatives in Britain hope to be accepted by the Home Office. | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
And your uncle, in Epsom, have you spoken to him? | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
He said come on, life in the Jungle is no good. | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
So how long have you been in the Jungle? | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
This camp, awful as it was, had become a kind of home to many | :04:10. | :04:19. | |
people, and this was in effect the main high street. | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
Now though it's more or less completely abandoned | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
except for the people making their way up through the camp | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
towards the areas where you queue for the buses, and there are still | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
some who are staying on here, undecided about where to go next - | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
but still hoping to be able to get to the UK. | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
This man studied chemical engineering in Basra in Iraq. | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
He has spent the last year living in this hut with two friends. | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
I can stay here, I can sleep rough if necessary, | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
because we have families in the UK and we need to go | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
Even when this whole camp has closed down? | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
Yes, yes, we are adamant and determined to stay here. | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
Well you can see what country France is - we have been living here one | :05:08. | :05:19. | |
year and no one cares about your medical situation, | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
no one cares about you, so we just got the impression | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
that France is not good enough to take care of us. | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
Some might trumpet this as the historic end of a bone | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
of contention between Britain and France for years, | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
but the Jungle is not the first refugee camp in Calais and this | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
isn't the first time one is being closed down. | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
TRANSLATION: The first certainty is that it's the end of the Calais | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
camp, but the end of the migration question also depends | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
We are still fighting to make sure the UK accepts unaccompanied minors | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
who have family on the other side of the Channel. | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
Efforts have been made, it's true, since the summit | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
but those efforts are not enough because as long as the UK refuses | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
a legal process for immigration, notably for unaccompanied minors, | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
then the situation will continue to cause difficulties. | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
In this Calais brasserie many locals were sceptical | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
There's been talk of migrants moving from here to nearby Dunkirk and even | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
returning to Calais after a few weeks in the reception centres | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
TRANSLATION: It's just moving the problem somewhere else, | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
not necessarily in Calais but somewhere else. | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
They're probably going to go elsewhere, like | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
It's a good thing for Syrian people and Eritreans, | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
because also for the people of Calais, because the camp | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
decreased the tourism and impacts the economy. | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
Migrants and refugees have travelled for months | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
and for many miles to get here, hoping to reach Britain. | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
A lot now seem to have accepted they'll never make it to the UK, | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
but others still believe they can and are willing to put up | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
with conditions even worse than these to get there. | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
The next stop for most people who have left the Jungle will be one | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
of the many reception centres for refugees across France. | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
One town, Villeblevin, has taken migrants from the Calais | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
camp, where they've been housed in an old convent. | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
From there, Hugh Schofield sent this report. | :07:35. | :07:43. | |
In the grounds of a former convent in rural France, Afghans | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
are teaching Sudanese to play the English game of cricket. | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
Three days after they arrived here from Calais, the 45 migrants | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
are slowly acclimatising to the gentler, safer world | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
Before, this was a holiday camp for Paris schoolchildren. | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
Television and regular hot meals, all laid on by the Red Cross | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
Talking to the people here you get the sensation they are still | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
They've no idea really where in France they are. | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
But one thing is clear, they do want to stay in France. | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
They've given up on the idea now of ever getting to England. | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
I love you, French, I love you, I love you. | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
Once, they saw France as just a stepping stone on the route to | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
Now it's the country that is offering them the refuge | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
I like the French because the government in France | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
The government in England is no good, because they closed | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
For now the migrants are staying inside the convent grounds. | :08:52. | :09:02. | |
They are worried about local reaction. | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
Not unreasonably, because the people in the village were highly | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
suspicious when told of the uninvited guests. | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
The Deputy Mayor told me the decision to house the migrants | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
here had been taken by Paris without any attempt to consult | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
It was fine for the migrants to walk around the village, he said, | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
but only as long as they left the people here alone. | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
What of the children walking home from school soon in the dark, | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
Maybe they are very good people, he said, but we just don't know | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
anything about them, and it's wrong to take this | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
Centres like this may only be open for a few months, | :09:40. | :09:50. | |
the time needed to process applications for asylum in France, | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
after which the migrants will be moved on. | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
In the meantime it's more of the boredom that they've grown | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
so accustomed to, but now safer, perhaps even | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
Hugh Schofield, BBC News, in Villeblevin. | :10:02. | :10:10. | |
Hundreds of children from the Calais camp have now arrived in Britain. | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
They include dozens of girls said to be at risk of sexual | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
exploitation, resettled under an agreement to help particularly | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
vulnerable children who have no links to the UK, as | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
Journey's end for one recent resident of the Calais Jungle - | :10:23. | :10:30. | |
This boy, who says he's 16, fled the fighting in Afghanistan | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
and travelled over land and sea for over a year. | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
Last Monday he was brought to Britain to join his uncle, | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
He told me he was trying to forget everything that had happened to him. | :10:45. | :10:53. | |
All the difficulties and problems should go away soon, now I'm | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
Although some new arrivals will go into care or foster homes, this boy | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
I am not here just for him, I am here to be his mum, | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
his dad, his brother, his sister, his friend. | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
I will support him and give him what he needs. | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
The Home Secretary updated the Commons on what Britain had done | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
in the last fortnight, in the build-up to the | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
We have transferred almost 200 children. | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
This includes more than 60 girls, many of whom had been | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
identified as at high risk of sexual exploitation. | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
They are receiving the care and support they need in the UK. | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
She said hundreds more children from the Jungle had been interviewed | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
and more would come to the UK in the coming weeks. | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
These were some of the arrivals from Calais last week. | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
The Home Office pays local authorities up to ?40,000 per child, | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
but councils say the true cost is sometimes much more. | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
Here at a discreet location in Devon, 20 of the recently arrived | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
boys are staying at a respite centre while decisions are made | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
about whether they should go into care or join family members. | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
It's not their doing, it's not their fault, | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
and I've got a little chap of my own and ultimately you just | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
want any child to be safe - and if we have the ability | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
We can't look after our own, so why look after everybody else? | :12:24. | :12:32. | |
Back in London, the boy, who is desperate to return | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
to education after his time in the Jungle, has his first meeting | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
with immigration officials tomorrow, as he starts the formal | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
process of claiming refugee status in Britain. | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
Daniel Sandford, BBC News, south London. | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
The clearing of the Jungle coincides with the hardening of political | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
attitudes towards refugees over the past year, not only in France | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
Fergal Keane has travelled along the migrant route from Hungary | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
in the Balkans to Calais, to test the new mood. | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
On the Hungarian frontier with Serbia, it feels | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
as if the great fortress is being defended from the refugees | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
and migrants who would make Europe their home. | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
They repeat the refrain I've heard on the migrant trail for years now. | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
I want to go for a better life, because Afghanistan is war | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
They made it this far before borders further south started to close. | :13:30. | :13:42. | |
Now you can see people streaming towards others across the fields | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
and I can hear shouts of men, the cries of children, | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
Last October 211,000 landed in the Balkans. | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
I was here a year ago to witness this fence going up. | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
That moment which symbolised what you might call | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
Politicians across western Europe have been since then trying | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
It has become one of the great defining | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
In Budapest the government has rejected refugee quotas. | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
Hungary recasting itself as the defender of European | :14:30. | :14:31. | |
And of a new continent where camps like Calais will never | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
First thing, protect the borders - everything else comes after. | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
Schengen, as we have announced it many times, | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
Calais cannot be sorted out until we are able to defend | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
We followed the migrant trail up through Austria into Bavaria, | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
where history's shade looms over the present. | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
Hitler had a headquarters and holiday home at Berchtesgaden. | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
And when he was defeated thousands of Jewish survivors were housed | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
That legacy profoundly shaped Germany's initial welcome | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
There are around 1000 living in this area. | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
Germany too began to impose strict border controls last year. | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
This man is from Syria and is the house guest of Marietta, | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
While public opinion has shifted, he still finds Germans tolerant. | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
They always want to help you and I love to stay here, | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
TRANSLATION: It's nice to live with him but I do set limits. | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
Some things he has to learn, how Germans live and what | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
But political momentum is with those opposed to asylum seekers. | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
The far right has gained votes by promising a crackdown, | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
like this grandson of a German wartime refugee. | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
TRANSLATION: The people are upset, upset because of the | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
There are many people who say we were not asked, | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
we want to be asked if such important decisions are made. | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
They are questioning the cost of this. | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
By the time I reached Calais, with the British shore | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
in view, the political mood in Europe was vividly clear. | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
In the nearby Jungle, people were already moving - | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
most of them single young men - ahead of the camp's demolition. | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
This Iraqi family has been here six weeks, | :16:48. | :16:49. | |
but will soon be moved elsewhere in France. | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
TRANSLATION: We are only thinking of going there. | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
There is no other country in our minds. | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
For the sake of our children's futures. | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
Closing the Jungle won't deal with the problem, it | :17:07. | :17:08. | |
And in Africa, the Middle East, large parts of Asia, | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
there are vast numbers of people who believe that getting to Europe | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
As long as conflict and endemic poverty in these parts | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
of the world continue, then however hard a line Europe | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
takes won't be enough to stem the flow of refugees and migrants. | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
Fergal Keane, BBC News, Calais. | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
The Calais situation involves around 7000 people, | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
but that's just a small fraction of around 1 million migrants | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
If the French do manage to sort out Calais, maybe they have a lesson | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
or two that can be applied more generally. | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
Mark Urban has been looking at the bigger European picture. | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
One year ago hundreds of thousands were on the move across Europe. | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
It was epic in scale and posed a profound challenge | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
But the migrant issue has for the past six months been | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
Over 1 million migrants arrived in Europe in 2015. | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
The number ten months into this year is dramatically lower, 341,000. | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
And in fact the number who have got in since the main route via Greece | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
and the Balkans were closed in March is about 200,000. | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
Most of those still arriving are coming via Libya | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
and Italy, with small flows into Spain and Bulgaria. | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
Arrivals in Italy - at 142,000 so far this year - | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
are up, but only by 2% on the same point in 2015. | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
Most of those making the dangerous journey from Libya are Africans, | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
from countries like Gambia, Nigeria, and Ghana. | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
And having been rescued at sea they won't find the better life | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
Some say that 98% will be rejected for asylum. | :19:10. | :19:19. | |
Not all will be sent home because legal systems | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
are slow-moving in certain countries, so what happens | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
as they get sucked into the informal economy? | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
They get exploited, and eventually perhaps get sent home. | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
As for those who make it to Italy or Greece and are accepted | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
as refugees, an EU quota system to resettle them has | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
Just 6243 refugees have been relocated in Europe. | :19:39. | :19:52. | |
1392 from Italy and 4852 from Greece. | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
Compare that to the 160,000 that EU countries pledged to welcome | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
under quotas put forward by Jean-Claude Juncker a year ago. | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
The Juncker relocation plan was doomed from the start. | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
First of all many European governments didn't want to sign | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
The Visegrad countries were opposed to it but were strong-armed | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
into agreeing it mainly by Donald Tusk and other European states. | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
Secondly, the problem is within the Schengen area, | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
even if we relocated people to one particular country, | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
nothing would stop them moving onwards. | :20:28. | :20:28. | |
Thirdly, it was only for 160,000 refugees, which was a tiny | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
proportion of the total, so there were many reasons | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
to believe it would never be implemented - | :20:35. | :20:43. | |
Those who made their way to the Jungle were often people | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
who had slipped out of Italian reception centres or made their way | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
France's decision to process them now underlines the degree | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
to which national answers have come to define Europe's response | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
Towards the end of the week French officials said that they had | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
accomplished the mission to clear the Jungle, but there | :21:06. | :21:07. | |
was some disruption as some of the departing migrants set fire | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
Aid workers also raised concerns over the plight | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
of a number of children, with reports that some migrants had | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
Lucy Williamson reports on the final days of the Calais Jungle. | :21:17. | :21:28. | |
The eerie calm that has hung over the Jungle broke. The ending of the | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
camp telegraphed across the Calais sky. Shelters set ablaze in protest, | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
perhaps, or resignation tinged with revenge. So far there has been very | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
little resistance to this clearance, but the operation seems to be | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
reaching a tipping point. Those who want to go have left. Those who are | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
still here have a different point to make. At the camp's borders those | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
who still had homes inside watched and waited, held back by riot | :22:01. | :22:08. | |
police. Officials say the fires have speeded up the eviction. | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
TRANSLATION: The last fires in the camp have convinced them. We've seen | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
some Syrians who didn't want to come initially, they are here now, and | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
community leaders who said they wanted to go now the communities had | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
gone, and there was no one left, so it's time to close. The mission was | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
a success. But migrants have been filing back into the Jungle to sleep | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
amongst the Ashes. Among them we met this man. His friends, who joined | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
the buses out on Monday, have told him it wasn't worth leaving, he | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
said, and they were coming home to Calais. I'm going back to sleep | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
there. I know the Jungle has been finished, been buried, but it's | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
better to be there until tomorrow. If the police can we are ready to go | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
to the detention centre. And aid workers say the speed has led -- | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
left some of the camp's most vulnerable with nowhere to sleep | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
tonight. In terms of the children they are not all in state | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
protection. We have counted so many who cannot get into the containers | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
or get into the centre and have no accommodation whatsoever. The story | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
of Calais's migrants is over, they say, but for those still determined | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
to reach Britain it doesn't feel like the end. Lucy Williamson, BBC | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
News, Calais. And that's all from the special edition of reporters for | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
this week. From me Simon Jones here at the now empty Jungle camp in | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
Calais, goodbye for now. | :23:43. | :23:52. |