it's nearly six months since i met amir and dimmer. despite president trump's reluctance the u.s. refugee deal is still under way but the details are oh pike. small groups of men are being flown from mannus to p. and g.'s capital port moresby. some nationalities iranians and somalis are rejected but for the lucky ones there is a new life in america and we get a tip off that imran may be among them. the men are taken to a motel under heavy guard. and border force offices have told p. and g. security not to let us film that is why. we're not allowed to take pictures here one of. its actions well maybe a bit it is doesn't excuse me but sometimes what i would also told i was anyway

double decker on my face so that. we eventually confirmed that imran is here. and finally after six long months waiting in port most be a decision. this time there are no gods or handcuffs this time iran won't be flying as a prisoner i'm going to our. interview. i am. very sorry. for you you know. he doesn't quite believe it until the boarding pass is in his hands destination america.

it's autumn in canada and on the ben cooper waterfront residence embrace the vivid change of season. this place was never in any resettlement plan and i'm surprised to be here. of the thirteen hundred men on nonis once tenacity and good luck has meant he's managed to buck the system. after a secretive application process emilio was granted protection in canada. so

this is where i am now. over in our. i call it an alpha house on menace through force of personality and a good command of english amir became a de facto leader in canada there is anonymity and a job at a local tourist attraction i was a man as i had like one thousand five hundred people were just running after me going out they sweating to know what's the news wanting to know when they get out of there wanted me to do stuff with it. writing here all of a sudden he's just like there's no really around there nobody asking me anything. here but you'll like this one i just want to smell it. you know

life is different now. compared to a place that you basically couldn't call it life. basically nothing but now say well so called normal life here. you know i. just wanted to say when i came here i just felt numb. like. oh it's so good to see you and you know the girlies for him but. it's the first anniversary of the misa arrival in vancouver

his remarkable luck in getting to canada is due to this unlikely group of people. and they're all members of a private sponsorship group an initiative where citizens provide money and support for refugees to resettle in canada actually as we all expected it was a bit of an uphill battle. for the early stages but we're still here today and. we've got one upstanding citizen in canada no one year later brought together by canadian a strategy and couple wine and linda tyler the group raised almost thirty thousand dollars to bring you me from menace and support his first year in canada rescue team and you rescued me from an island which so many governments and so many countries were not able to do so many system so many departments so many

organizations so i appreciate it and thank you your. page also. it all started when a mere wine tieless daughter chelsea a melbourne based news. who worked on manis facts uniting his solemn sea cues. say hi i'm mayor how are you she was adamant quite honestly that we do something and yet we were was somewhat. concerned that we could really achieve anything having not been through it before but we just said well we'll give it a go i thought and they're like ok without a semi retired political consultant why in tyler was undaunted by the complexities of refugee sponsorship and so this well connected group hit the phones lobbying politicians and officials to bring amir to canada oh well our parting

now it's almost inconceivable what these people could be treated the why that they have played treated certainly from the people who were part of al group when i heard that story felt that it was. unfathomable that people could be kept by sickly as prisoners. yeah there's another one and we say every year there are. a muse getting on with their life that the tension on man is interrupted. he's vancouver community college or. the first place that i started i continue my education.

as a judge have to follow what the jury recommends and and their heard no that is can make their own. decisions but i am planning to take things step by step. i have been considering human rights law for a psychology i just want to do everything at it one thing at a time was. the the. while of me is says his conversion to christianity forced him to leave iran he now feels that religion is less important than. that and today he makes a rare visit to a church to people from a muse sponsorship group a members of the unitarian congregation he. was i like christianity it is something that i always was very interested

since it was a very own kit. i would gradually say i'm not so much into any specific religion but you this is your reason. for getting out of rounds and yes. how does that match up with. well that's one of the thing there always got me in troll into trouble so yeah i do still believe in it i. see it as something that gets me connected. was a news new life looks comfortable bought a year after arriving in canada he knows happiness isn't a guaranteed. you can be in there worth planes on this planet they're worse one there and you can see like

let's say happening man it's like the worst place and make it a heaven for yourself and you can be in the best country on the planet and make it a hell for yourself. over the border in the land of the free around five hundred refugees from manis and now rue have been resettled scattered across the us in cities like chicago often with minimal support. theses one of chicago's most multicultural neighborhoods and now living just around the corner is a camera plenty of people. come over to basically. americans in india

and. you can consume it so is this different to what you expect it is totally different. it's her going to break a beautiful gown to take place if i thought there were no trees have found and you know maybe. it's very different i don't wear a sari iran has a job at a workshop alongside several other form a menace to tiny's but unlike iran they don't want any contact with this trial ians or the media. it goes both way good and bad that i am free and someone interesting. i just wanted to beef up free and i think it's going to be expected as a human being and. people have been welcoming and

i'm loved. so it's. different if it's like a home. in a country with eleven million undocumented migrants where the president wants to build a wall to keep others out astrology is so cold but crisis and the government's hardline response have barely registered. but iran is finding many people interested in his story i'm really pleased to introduce you to a friend of ours who just arrived in may of two thousand and eighteen his name is in riyadh mohamed he's a refugee i thank you iran for coming to our class. i didn't expect anything like that from australia. because i have friends in australia they wasted lives there running around and they went to australia and

they're going to ask for and they got a car and you know it's they were telling me that all could come to this country they were respected as a human being and that's why i wanted to go to australia even when i was living. one of their stories had told me that i want to come back. but when i came to this country one of the custom of he said talk to welcome to america thank you and that's what i wanted to hear. but iran is haunted by the memory of six hundred men who were not so welcome here neither prison is really free i remain trapped on a distant pacific island. i'm here i'm free. i still have nightmares sometimes i'll just counseling and wired in

america and as. my apartment. i call my friends name and not hear their own. and join. in fighting. i started covering man i saw him more than three years ago and when i first met these men i wondered how their stories would in a never thought it would be here on the other side of the world in the suburbs of north america some people might think this is a pretty good outcome to what was a political and social problem and the other a straw you might forget these guys but i won't forget what australia did to them and i might not forgive either.

can be lonely sometimes for lonely it's just i feel like i'm still there and i hear these daily stuff it's not any news just keep happening it's getting worse and worse. it's something that i will always remember it i will never be able to forget it stuff that happened my friends that they were killed in front of me. this shouldn't have happened ever and i am sure it is going to be a day that a new featured at a straight year will feel sorry about what they've done. a chance for reunion after decades of separation caused by

a war. one i want to east joins a mother to reunite with the son she lost more than sixty years ago in the korean war on al jazeera. on counting the cost this week he's on a mission to save the internet we'll talk to tim berners lee inventor of the world wide web and we'll look at what can be a safari called is teaming up with china's biggest e-commerce company counting the cost on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera. and. where every. rewind continues to care bring your people back to life i'm sorry with updates on the best of al-jazeera as documentaries this struggle continues book from the till now or use distance revisiting alfred's free press. they didn't talk we think of what's happening in the rest of sides. over the years rewind on al-jazeera.

the past forty years have been told the true metric for these family. and many of them. some solace for the families of victims of new zealand's worst mass shooting as police prepares to hand over the bodies of the dead. and for a long time. but there's shock and disbelief among the stray and relatives of the gunman accused of the christchurch killings. and this is the world news from al-jazeera headlines one week on and families still await the return of their loved ones from the ethiopian airlines crash as investigators piece together what exactly went wrong and fulfilling

a promise the new president of democratic republic of congo makes crucial steps towards freedom for men. just. as will be waking to an increased security situation across the country it is now been three days since fifty people were killed by a government to mosques and while the pain and shock is obviously still raw there is a lot of attention now on making sure it doesn't happen again these ilands top police officer says there will be a highly visible will be a highly visible presence across the country as people go back to work on monday extra offices deployed around places like schools businesses and places of worship prime minister just into our journeys promised to times and gun laws as big.