and this picture every one seen it with mrs merkel has had so much influence on my life all the many people i've met through it getting to. be full of a selfie he didn't know who. says more demonic back home he was never interested in politics and didn't watch the news. that changed on that day in berlin. the gong i was doing shots and all to all she got out of the black card shop this with a lot of security and funk mission to this was all i wanted to do was make a selfie. and i didn't know who she was rescinded only later everybody told me that it was mrs merkel germany's leader it's all ok. the show how proud were you you know as in my mother back home you don't have that kind of possibilities and nobody wants to take a picture of all assad anyway because it's so bad there but here in germany my heroine is mrs merkel there's because she has given

a saying and i'm very proud of that happened off this dosa by disease and she has given me and many others here the possibility to stage and begin a new life here and i noticed that when i was following him after the selfie with the chancellor his life changed abruptly he was invited on to talk his picture was in the headlines at the same time he started learning german and his refugee center because he wanted to study but then in early 2016 the photo appeared on the social media sites of right wing groups he was portrayed as a syrian terrorist. young jason book they posted that a terrorist had made the selfie with mrs merkel american on online right wing conspiracy sites he was accused of being the brussels terrorist or the assassin had by child plots and then one of the a.f.p. state associations connected him and his spouse need pixilated photo with other terrorist attacks. i shot him i always thought why did i make the selfies i didn't

need it at all and i'd be left in peace and that's not the case i never alone not even today. i'm asked motorman a sort refuge at a friend's house he was threatened personally and was bombarded with hate comments the 2nd time his selfie photo was abused it is cited to take judicial action against facebook with legal and hate this time he was alleged to have set a homeless person on fire in the bar in some way he wanted to prevent facebook from further distributing the photo. although he lost the case he doesn't think the fight was in bang mr bush does the going to do it was important to me that people should know the real story that who are we i ever saw what are syrians trying to achieve is good not to show there are of course people who have done along but that's not even one percent so what about the others this list would have to deal the rest of us want to study to integrate the learn the language quickly and gain

a place at university where i did not speak she can go on as moto mani has managed to achieve this for almost a year now he has been studying media communications he feels comfortable at the university despite the fact that it is difficult studying in german and not his mother tongue. and then. figure it out in the church that so many people supported me in the beginning and how to find the right classes and such but it was difficult for me when i started because everything is online on the internet made a smart feel i got lost several times. a. modern money often visits the bundestag now that he has learned german he is interested in the country's politics . so far he hasn't managed to meet i'm going to tackle again. as a shop actually made us smile i tried to contact her several times when i was dismissed but it hasn't worked out great and it's difficult. this which would diminish him

a beautiful image but i would be happy to talk to her personally but shits and nothing fyi cuz i have learned german after 5 years in the shop 0 feet and have so many topics that interest me and so many questions meet the music was also interesting. he has had a girlfriend for 6 months on a young ish from the ukraine who studies at the same university the 2 majo freshers' party she was unaware of that he was the man in the medical sound feet. of this i'm interested in the force that said that really here. he didn't tell me his story right away obviously once and parminder gets off from i miss him we met a few times on our been through that and then one night he told me his story or some to comment on the shooting him dead mr dog how he came to germany and what obstacles he had to face the start so that all fussed at alice i find it pretty special and i'm very proud of what he has achieved by that i said yesterday or to

learn german he's had a job and now he's studying them are super but i'm sure he will finish his studies that he very successful and then nothing further to that he's now to look at people . as a friend 5 years ago we can achieve this it looks like we can wash out the 1st and only i've done it i had many plans many of which are behind me now i have achieved it but. for chancellor angela merkel voter also had consequences. people to germany washee still in control of the situation even now she rarely speaks about this time she receives recognition abroad and refugees on the balkan routes carry medical pictures with them but critics accuse her of using photos like the song to ensure that the stream of refugees increases for mrs merkel you have

clearly misused your government mandate with a step down you can do this stuff with us be. political opponents she became the target of a more harsh criticism. in the autumn of 2015 even more refugees started arriving at the end of october the small town of veg shi'ite in low above area made the headlines in a single day the austrians transported $1000.00 people by bass to the border the mass found himself in a hopeless. mission. this is a hotel it's totally irresponsible of the austrian authorities to transport so many people to the border crossings or when they know that we don't have the infrastructure to deal with the there are children in a buses so i've got no option but it is a hand outside nicole that i shouldn't be happening cos it's. for the federal border guards this was an unprecedented situation they requested reinforcements

from the barbarian riot police. this photo was taken on that day a long line of refugees behind the police vehicle leading the line behind the van was this police bomb and. we managed to find her and they are foreigners from ports book she is still with the riot police and clearly hasn't forgotten that day. if it's in the i always find it amazing i was talking about it with some friends the other day i went home turned on the t.v. and exactly that scene was shown as we were moving across the landscape with the refugees and in retrospect it always surprises me that we were an integral part of contemporary history otherwise this is all you know interestingly enough it's exactly that picture i always have in mind when i think of the situation back then

one of the 1st treks we made from the border directly through the a delicate lakeside lands. at the end of the war was this whole outside the village here the people were supplied with the things they most needed . them and violence and this the impression that i got was that they were incredibly exhausted. i mean you have to imagine they were on the road for weeks sometimes months they were hungry it was cold it was already. and they didn't really talk very much i think. many refugees were particularly afraid of police officers she remembers because on their way to germany they often had very very bad experiences with the police. in the hope we follow you can sense the refugees and security as soon as they see

police uniforms and that's why i wanted to say we're the good guys well we want to know why you. may have ems today experienced back then enable them to see their own countries in a different light. the city or when this became absolutely clear in the days that followed the humility to was what we have here in germany and how free and easy we can live here. andrea foreigners working on a riot police exercise. if. she tries to encourage younger colleagues to deal with refugees without prejudices. that's what you always have to look at both sides it's easy to jump to conclusions and it's the same a lead you to the pictures you have in your mind and for that there's always a person we hide everything and you always have to keep that in mind and. by the

end of 2015 the attacks in cologne on new year's eve fjords and confirmed fears and prejudices. over most of the perpetrators had been living in germany for some time and did not come into the country with a wave of refugees the public mood started changing. a number of refugees alone caused fear refugees were attacked. homes. a video from february the 18th 2016th abbas with refugees arrives in kos minutes and they ask about god it is received by an angry mob. the name of the boss company size or cannot enjoy your travels.

other than your call just to serve in the memories of that night are not good we were all hungry we hadn't eaten since morning insomnia fatigue headaches and then what happened here it was a huge shock for us i don't think we'll ever forget it failed solder and muscle ranch power on the boss that night. a young couple from iran who now live about 30 kilometers away in 5 or after 5 years their parents are visiting from iran he was 22 and his pregnant wife 18 when i plan to flee iran their parents knew nothing about it at the time many thought. if i told my parents i wanted to leave iran i would have no chance. of. i thought about it but if i said i can't go on living there there would be other problem. if i moved into

another city more problems would come and so one night my wife and i left iran that it. was on october 25th team saga i can muster iran's power fly to greece 5 turkey they arrived in germany via the balkan route and applied for political asylum which one year later in november 26th team was granted and usually they were accommodated in the municipality of mice and their 1st child babak a boy was born in december 25th. 2 months later the young couple were taken to their new accommodation in classmates together with 20 other refugees. we have on we were tired very tired we hadn't even i had a child he was only 60 days old to. return with them to cost nets to the place where they were supposed to find a new home to live in. the

bush hut here here is where the bus stopped. or already waiting while. they were tractors and cars and the people were making a lot of noise and we thought what's going on what's happening. why are these people here why are they shouting i did much very little to a man he was german and arabic and our friend was able to speak english. called he explained that the locals didn't want us to live here. village we are here live it . vom fisheye was also on the boss he used to be a development waka working all over the world in afghanistan or pakistan bangladesh . he helped as a translator on the bus. limit and it's

a business here that's me in the cab they were shouting we are the people that's what i heard at the end when i looked around someone went like this and then it just kicked off the refugees were totally afraid about getting off the bus with the children started crying in the women started crying and the men were also close to the line near them but you never knew when they might start throwing stones and move on the unfairness by this of muzzled. by. even today 4th time fisher continues to process the events that happened back back . home like this where i was traumatized so i do experience something like that in my own country especially having worked in so many other countries and i've never experienced anything like it so it was.

just over 4 years later and. return to the village in front of the refugee home. a former neighbor suddenly appears from her house cars and. lived in cars needs for 50 years or years ago yes hello good day. you know i have 2 children now i have a daughter now tough a daughter that's an awfully we've learned german you have to enter when i have work here now and even to faded yourselves with us home that can't have been easy. yes and slowly we try to forget what happened to us here by what was what happened yes well don't talk about that and. it's difficult finding people in poznan it's to talk about the events of february

26th seems. we. didn't have any experience started off. a bit over i've heard about it from people who lived there i'd say it's been blown out of proportion but. there are no refugees living here any more back than they were about 20 this innovation within kinda. some of the children also went to the kinda sun little boy went to school and there was a list outside of all the things he needed to satchels for him everything was already there and here they are lots of people who struggle to buy all the things their children need to start school nobody gives them anything and that's the other side of the coin it's no wonder that people are angry they get everything handed to them on a plate always struggle to make ends meet. how much did the refugees construct in 2018 the federal office for migration and refugees calculated put

a good 15000000000 of direct federal expenditure and another 7000000000 also of grants to local authorities was given for refugee work together about $23000000000.00 the total federal budget for this year was over $340000000000.00 euros and although criticism of foreign integration is often heard in the east relatively few refugees live there the lighter shaded regions indicate the least amount of refugees who were sent back in 2015 the a.f.p. received more than a quarter of the votes in saxony in 2019 in the community of back to which classmates belongs 34 percent voted for them fisher is adamant. on this so we saxons are not all like that and it's only a quarter of them then it's still a minority. order right. cause and it is divided like saxony in south. we also met some people who are uncomfortable

with the events that occur at. the show if it does just one hope that it never happens again. you can settle things calmly. people should think 1st and then speak question and not get excited and carried away with events of. who were the people who surrounded the coach back that didn't want refugees in class notes. are essentially leads us to 2 brothers thomas h. was the director of the refugee home at bad time. and i have to remember. his brother cost an age i don't deny is the protest as explained in an interview and 2016 this woman nobody wanted this at least none of us who live in the village it's difficult to explain the reasons why things happen and it's certainly

regrettable that it escalated as it did it was not what we were hoping to achieve when we met at the beginning definitely not. how do they look back on the events of 2015 we tried to interview the brothers but they didn't respond to our inquiries we decided to try and meet them we met a colleague in the parking lot at a cost n h e's workplace and asked him to arrange an interview. yes all right i'll ask him to 10 minutes the man and he doesn't want to talk he's scared there were death threats back then we filed over 140 criminal charges for death threats through the internet and emails please turn the camera off from the local newspaper we learned that the. age brothers are now both active in politics and represent the party in the local council.

sardonic and muscle rom spa found a new home just a few towns away. the children go to the local kindergarten. and soldering has a job with a local automotive supplier he takes his with him to visit. those that think it is a dish out of the attic looking for new work again yes of course. you know what to do today this knowledge that i will show you in a minute let's go in here but you should change 1st. so i think as i try to take is a reliable colleague our. diligence. is really integrated himself well into his new job and he's learned a lot and we're all from a colleague one of you very satisfied with him to feed it inside take.

care of 3. others sat with. me. on our you both i wish. thank you thank you and you played it through the snow. we haven't seen you for ages because. you feel in february when you came by bus and the young nazis prevented you from getting off. your nazi station in the last month and no social change. without help if i waited a week and it was the give out and bought 5 bunches of flowers you have been choice of the car when i asked the baker if you had any food. and she said no. we're sold out i listened and i said what

a shame recovered but i wanted to give one to the refugees who were so badly received here and then she said oh in that case i do have one available cannot. just. line increasing studios here in. michigan using still further. in the meantime the iranian family feels more integrated in fribourg. boss still doesn't speak much john and after 5 years in germany i think he managed it. so after. 5 years so the 1st year i can forget and clausen it. dirt after that i learned a german a little bit and then i worked for 2 years. and i'm still working. i want to improve my german and live in peace without any problem or no problem.

the 2 children back and i son have a future in germany another child was not so fortunate. little alon curdie how to dance story continues. back in september 2015 and i'm curdie his brother ghalib and his mother and hannah were buried in the town from which they had fled the year before and which has since been liberated by cut his troops. i have no future my future is over i want to go to europe to get my family a future. since september 25th jane he has been living in iraq in a kurdish city of ambulance hours he today we had planned

a joint visit to arabella with his sister team ice for the end of march to meet up with him shortly before our departure the trip had to be cancelled due to the corona pandemic. until recently the refugee crisis seemed to be the biggest challenge germany has had to face since the 2nd world war that has changed now. even the lives of the people we managed for this film have been transformed sometimes overnight. from freiburg centers this video i am betting for us the corona crisis has had. serious consequences. i was handed my notice. changed our lives and upset our plans. and now we have decided to move to a better and bigger city. all one some friends have recommended that we move to hamburg. a nonsmoker mani's

a man from the magical selfie lost his pond time job at an exhibition center has since found work as a cashier in a supermarket. the isolation is a problem for him. one of the issue and again since i can't go to university and i've become increasingly bored i used to meet friends we did homework and study together which was really interesting song but not anymore yes ma'am. and nicole can't help her from munich she is currently on maternity leave but while her job at the travel agency still be available for her later. orders will remain closed for longer as will the psychological borders in people's minds i don't think it will be so easy in the future for those large numbers of refugees to migrate fundable.

5 years after the crisis in the greek refugee camp morea. thousands of people are still waiting at europe's external borders hoping for asylum. we finally get a message from abdul county we learn from kurdish television that a few weeks ago he became a father again he remarried in 2017 and via mobile phone we finally reached him in and. when the new baby came i was very surprised. i couldn't believe it. it was like a huge shock. i didn't know whether to be happy or sad or to cry i didn't understand what was happening.

when you lose your own child. and i hope you never experience something like that. it's a very strange feeling to have lost a child and then to have a new baby. but sometimes he will send me a video of him to the baby and singing to the baby and sometime when i open him he will be like. no other because the baby is crying. and he said to me i just can't i just can not hear him crying. my sister said. maybe it takes to. last this far. out maybe. you know what your trouble is it's almost. i think we need. a new.

5 years after the tragedy abdulla county holds these new child in his arms. and on. the little boy. have you flown lately. to get everyone 'd treats terror in the passenger seat the coronavirus pandemic has grounded the airplanes worldwide. the entire industry has to reinvent itself. it's now careening between 1st optimism and just wanted me to enjoy. 30 minutes w.

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what should be done with the stolen north from africa. this is being hotly debated on both continents. stolen soul starts october 7th on g.w. . this is news and these are our top stories german chancellor angela merkel has called for answers from moscow over the poisoning of a russian opposition leader alexei navalny tests in berlin where mr know bonnie is being treated found that he was poisoned with the chemical nerve agent number chuck the chancellor has described the attack as an attempted murder. the trial has opened in paris of 14 people accused of aiding the 20.