and of course we are trying to address that as a government and i think that is right that is our priority the leader of the roman catholic church pope francis and christians around the world are celebrating the most joyous day in their calland easter sunday because of the pandemic st peter's basilica and the square outside are pretty much empty millions are watching on t.v. and online feeds. this is how the service looked in occupied east jerusalem home to the church of the holy. that's where many christians believe jesus was crucified and. also making news the taliban says it's releasing the 1st group of 20 afghan government soldiers on sunday is part of an agreement with the u.s. the announcement coincides with the release of a 3rd group of $100.00 taliban prisoners by the afghan government news continues after rewinds. counting the cost from the health of. the

world for. jobs at a faster pace in the great depression. help. is falling through the cracks. and welcome to this week's rewind i'm elizabeth purana and if you've seen the show before you know that we're taking another look at some of the very best documentaries we've made of the past decade here. this week we rewinding back to 2011 when al-jazeera is witness series follow the remarkable story of

a young palestinian boys emotional journey from sharing a bed with his grandmother and 2 brothers in a wrong down lebanese refugee camp to a place at 8 in college one of the most exclusive private schools in the u.k. founded more than 500 years ago by the endless king henry the 6th it's the rich and famous friends as william and harry were both. educated there as with 19 former u.k. prime ministers well later we're finding out what's become of mohamed since he graduated from eton college but 1st let's take a look at mohammad that asian from the witness series back in 2011. just. this out of. this is some was. this is about all of it really the biggest thing as you know is that famous for its only victory this is that it a presence of policy being a student. of this policy mohammed farhad is

a 16 year old student at the alexis school it's funded by the u.n. because palestinian refugees cannot attend lebanese schools these are the scores of mohammad is the 1st one is a cause and if you look to see if this is for example which john pointed out of one . of 170 year old robert. bennett out. of the mohammed maybe bright but as a refugee his opportunities for further education and jobs a severely limited. the conditions here out of his that i've been to the people here here suffer from money. from money but conditions as you see this sort of need to have. mohammed's grandparents fled palestine from lebanon in 1948 and the family now lives in jim jim village with other palestinians this is my

uncle's house. of our houses of stairs this is my mother my grandmother the last 10 years in the genuine home wishes but the i wish it and i wish it. luck learn from nothing that gareth your more than ever there are just. one no another level and none. this is. my bedroom. with my brothers and my grandmother. also my grandmother here my brother's here ground. the younger one he go we can sleep in there but i listen too much oh miss him. mohammed has never left lebanon but he's about to embark on a life changing journey

a fully funded 6th form scholarship to eton college in england this is a letter by the headmaster of it on good loads. the details of the horizon the scholarship given to him but he said we were very happy it will come out to eat on last march and wear it and by the way in which he embraced all aspects of his visit by the they make buttons i was very proud. because by this letter almost all of. i mean no 500. when we are new. i say i'm going to limit. the horizon foundation will fund mohammed for 2 years of study this is an amazing opportunity the leaving home is a huge step for both him and his family. he said is one of the world's most prestigious schools and is famous for its high achieving students

tradition plays a large role here from the former uniform of black tails to eccentric annual events it costs nearly 50000 dollars a year to attend eton one in 5 of the people has received assistance and for the scholarship boys like mohammed expectations are high. the school is divided into $25.00 boarding houses with about 50 boys in each mohammed's new home will be waynflete run by housemaster richard pratt and jane stephens known as the dame answer. to that the same against yeah well thank you very much and f.a.q. . question top yeah back. to venice in uniform in the pocket change here at. the door and then there's the. she's going to have a hard time for

a new voice so is united over to put things so this isn't the looting day with the option for some person present their. course is ethical whether you should use them or not with issues levels and how how you should hellish be used and mohammed is studying for a levels a 2 year exam course which will determine which university he gets into. i'm doing the film a physics chemistry biology and i'm doing our bit also over there bill and when the boys in the house told me that doing level math of recess is maybe. in. their sleep until he returns and personally you don't need to. flip the floggings small this very small place. with the word on the floor and different rooms

certainly with. a lot of pressure because it's interesting but at the same time i found it very difficult yes it was the 1st time for me thing was the microscope i was really confused i don't know what to do. oh it wants to go home one just to call by the end of this 1st year mohammed will be sitting his a s. exams 50 percent of his final grades. we need to clear away. so there's something for nothing if. he didn't get a. high office it's really different sometimes it's really cool sometimes i don't like it because let's be honest the best suited love is in your reading goal what is it like love was exactly yeah that's the best you got that out of the city. man it isn't just adapting to new school becoming etonian means

getting to grips with a whole host of traditions that even british boys might find curious like the school celebration of st andrew's day. they would have said a person like said i don't stay or you're much bigoted you know very intimate that this is the 4th as a whole before it's called the whole yes almost always a very intimate yes a very good us learn to stay all of it is going to learn. in the same way that the colonies you believe is it really fair to all 3 this is a very nice way of looking at the world just like your friends here for you thank you so they. are. today mohammed is watching the war game one of the strangest balloons that is only played each time but. 'd this is one of the feeling no and you can see the boys sitting on the ward they have to take the ball and raise it

from the ground and this is like a go in football game the now this is the 1st official suppression and even i have had no i watched the whole game and i have to understand its rules. when i 1st arrived to my house i was a bit homesick coming to a boarding school is much more different we have rules phone for sleeping time talk of living with a newborn he's sleeping alone in my room is really different. and it's difficult for mohammed during the 1st time he's been away from home for this festival by the muscle so i think with young.

yeah i was a bit said homesick because being far from my family from my problem was. it's a bit difficult. this was the 1st snow experience for me during which a big snow man. not to mention it as pure and soft as i found it. it's a new experience. it's been a testing term but already mohammed has come a long way. he's i'm very willing to it is math and physics is performing to a very high level there has been sometimes are 2 times that he's doing a course that assumed a certain amount of background knowledge that he didn't have with his work very hard to fill those gaps. i don't quite like him to get away from the desk

a little bit and to maybe tries 100 a few other things and it's a strange thing for teachers to be saying but actually not work what's going on right. now. this is the schoolyard of it and call is this is this your tenure at the 6 person who is who he is our founder and all the people here here are very proud of him. this is the chapel of. easton's gothic chapel is central to school life there's a service almost every day and those of all faiths attend going to temple is was one of them in the for us is i have experience in them as a muslim i haven't been to a church. but i was excited to go to discover well you know other people from different cultures. and the boys and the school board to think me as one of

them but nevertheless many people think that islam is a violent religion at all i'm against this idea so i think to try to change this ideas. mohammed is not the only muslim in the school and on some days they meet together with an. i think what will happen is that the islamic world will actually find its own sense of self confidence through the rock prosy do think this will lead to unity between arabs and muslims i mean like. my i don't know you but i just think it's just an amazing moment if so how does. this affect this very musical and he loves playing many instruments. he's told me that i can reach my school through music and this is something you knew that i hear

from him. was today is the school concert and i'm thinking and it was taught at the back the sink at the beginning of this and other really enjoyed it is the 1st singing experience for me. and the piece of music is called brooklyn am by but there. wasn't any. it's been a formative time for my hammett he's heading home for easter and the requiem is a fitting end he's been busy in flower st and he's having an impact on his academic

work as well which is always strong and is getting stronger i'm very fortunate to have a house filled with musicians he's taking part in. this extraordinary occasion and i think he's coming around to my way of thinking. that actually it is part of what makes his who we are. faith. this is my exam i have 14 exams this year which is massive i think compared to many other boys in my year this is the 1st public exams for me and the conferee i

want to do preparing i think was. this term is dominated by exams but the boys do get a morning off to watch the wedding of the year. award what the front the culprit that it's being in is very exciting. very. new. was a great working in a very moist area. but it was very long. generally not really keen on. his one legs they're all a family but the other people in there were. mohammed has had a busy few weeks but finally it's his last exam today. no i'm up there in their 1st

look this is the last through vision when i was in labor i was the top of the class and. i'm like i'm the other student so i have to do. well this week was very tiring for me i had exams from monday. to friday today so i had to do a lot of provision special in the last 2 days i think that they felt period has passed no. with exams over mohammed can enjoy the english summer. when you get out and you play on down that's where you want the ball to go. i went eyeball and he bets and someone catches the bone in me so he would be ok

if you. don't have to go. that's it then i can't see very well. mourning his wife but i think i have gotten the hang of. peaches most famous annual event is called the 4th and commemorates the birthday of george the 3rd. it's a reminder of the privilege education that the boys receive there's a slight danger that they may pass the reason with the notion that they are more special really than they are because it is an unusual place which has not a lot of cultural baggage historical baggage so actually probably more important is that while they appreciate and recognize the options they have they don't go away thinking they're to specialists. i met many boys who were really friendly with me

and i discovered that they are from very early families and the contrary really about backing braun's so it's one of the things that makes me more confident in the sport. even has a long tradition of rowing and the day's highlight is watching the time honored procession of. the shooting. and it is sort of a wonderful specter. should. thank you i'm really nice i usually. well i've seen boys. growing it for us it's a special thing today because they already during peace especially with the for the

house with the fellow was sweden always. with his 1st year nearing an end mohammed visits the family that has funded his scholarship and. ringback he's just one of 40 international students that they have helped you sort of lose a little bit of faith in a little bit of hope in terms of the whole political process ever reaching any sort of positive resolution at least in our lifetime and so you do what you can and i mean you you try and empower young people and i hope that they will then improve the lives of people in their community in terms of the long term i mean you see yourself going back to love the law or you see yourself saying around here or it's my. liver you know i want to study here and then go back to try to help my people i mean palestinians who live in really suffer from very bad conditions so i think it's the duty of people who had chances like me to go back and changing these but

and this is for people. mohammed's applying to study engineering at university but it's one of the professions that he can't practice in lebanon because he's a palestinian refugee every farm i think about my future i following that situation is obstacle in front of me. i have to work cog even if i find obstacles in my way. it's the end of term and waynflete is packing up nothing i have to go by mohammed has been invited on a trip to europe with some of the boys before he heads home to lebanon i don't he's more excited actually i think because i know you are but we are too for you to be. here it would be very. good reception was. thank you it's like you know my job already but i. have a great summer. but. my.

i think my experience here in prague in my mind i became more confident more thoughtful and more aware of all what's happening in the world. and i've reached a point in between my old cult and this cult. but . i'm still a. palestinian and i think my experience made me more conscious about helping other people and. that was more than 6 years ago and i'm sure you're wondering what's happened to muhammad well i'm pleased to say that he is joining us now from london studio great

to see you muhammad so as we've mentioned you graduated from eton in 2012 what's happened since i was very fortunate to be awarded another scholarship by the arising foundation to continue my studies at u.c.l. in london i was awarded a job offer in london at a global engineering consultancy called macdonald where i've been working for more than a year now what sort of projects are you working on there i've been mainly working on 2 projects the 1st one is a road expansion in the u.s. actually after that i just started going working on a. huge scheme in london called crossrail and the aim is to build and you read where you that connects south west london with north east london do you have any plans. going back to let the norm or even go into palestine the reality at the moment is that as

a palestinian i am deprived from the right to free to palestine because of the israeli occupation there united nation has it offend our right as palestinians to go to back to our home countries every single year we have since 1948 since my grandparents were kicked out the united nations resolution $1000.00 for a fair and our right to go back we've never been allowed to go my grandmother who was featured in this documentary passed away 2 years ago without achieving her dream of going back so in terms of going to lebanon i love lebanon because my parents are i miss them they miss me but the problem is that as palestinians in lebanon we deprived from many civil rights we are not allowed to work in more than 20 professions me as a civil engineer i wouldn't be able to practice libin and many of my friends who

have graduated from university have actually gone back to lebanon and at the moment they are still unemployed and so where is home for you now and how does your family feel that this has so far been a one way journey for you my dream is to be back in palestine and the ultimate goal of a home is actually palestine but at the same time i still have my childhood memories of lebanon i love lebanon because i grew up there my family is there the u.k. on the other hand has provided me with life changing opportunities. i spent their formative years of my life here i made many friends i were made connections so i would always have that connection but home will continue to be in the back of my mind palestine thank you very much muhammad for joining us and telling us about your life now. well that's it for this week you can find lots of other specially

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