• 8 months ago
On Our Doorstep delves deep into an aspect of the refugee crisis that rarely reached the press. With NGOs being blocked | dG1fZHBOOG03TWM2MjQ
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 You've got a swarm of people seeking a better life,
00:13 wanting to come to Britain.
00:15 But we need to protect our borders,
00:17 and that's exactly what we're doing.
00:19 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
00:22 These incredible pictures show what
00:24 is happening in Calais, where migrants have been camped out
00:28 to try to get to Britain.
00:31 The biggest slum in Europe.
00:33 This is what we have here.
00:35 This camp has grown and grown, yet the state
00:38 has barely done a single thing to cater for these people.
00:41 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:45 How do you show that you disagree with your government
00:50 while you do what the government does not do?
00:52 I'd never volunteered in my life before.
00:54 I had no idea what I was doing.
00:55 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
00:57 We don't wait for government.
00:58 We create our own life here.
01:00 People from around 10 countries, they
01:03 were understanding each other.
01:05 There was a shine to it, but that was
01:08 built on something really awful.
01:10 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:14 It really got disgraceful when the kids started coming.
01:17 We have lost children.
01:19 Nobody seems to be acknowledging this.
01:21 It's a simple fact.
01:22 A seven-year-old boy in the back of a lorry
01:25 had received a text.
01:26 I need help driving a stop car.
01:28 No oxygen in the car.
01:31 I genuinely don't think parents would send their children
01:34 if they knew the reality.
01:35 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:39 [SIRENS]
01:42 The fire started behind police lines.
01:46 No one was allowed in.
01:48 We asked the judge to stop the destruction of the jungle.
01:52 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
01:55 And suddenly, everything had just gone straight to hell.
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02:13 (music fades)