of all people who are displaced, come from just five countries: syria, afghanistan, south sudan, myanmar and somaliae. and the crisis in venezuela has played its part — more than three—million people left the country in 2018, making it the biggest exodus in the region's recent history — according to the un. with me is matthew salt marsh — senior communications officer for the unhcr, the body behind the new report. also i'm joined by meike ziervogel, who is the co—director of shatila studio, an organisation that trades in bespoke needle art by 100 syrian and palestinian women from the shatila refugee camp in beirut. thank you very much forjoining us. ifi thank you very much forjoining us. if i could start with you, these figures that have been put out in the report there, these are absolutely colossal and we basically talking about war and instability as a result? that is right. tomorrow the world refugee day, that is a time or we celebrate the contributions of refugees to society but there is nothing really to celebrate. the numbers are extremely stark, 71 million displaced, that is double in the pa