Human Flow

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[soft classical music playing]

[clamoring]

[indistinct chatter]

Where's your mommy?

[woman] Okay.

[people chattering]

[children chattering]

[indistinct chatter]

[waves splashing]

[indistinct chatter continues]

[whistling]

[cheering]

[wind gusting]

[indistinct chatter]

[yelling]

It's very difficult to say.

Obviously, we don't have

a crystal ball to forecast,

but all the elements

that have driven people to flee

are still there.

The conflicts are still waging.

Syria, the biggest driver

of displacement,

is very much volatile. Uh...

Even though right now it's slow,

and over the past two days

there have hardly been

any arrivals,

but it's also extremely cold.

Winter has v-very much set in.

With the improvement of weather,

with coming of spring,

it's, uh, very likely that the

numbers will grow once more.

And it's difficult

to forecast how many,

but we should be prepared,

we should be prepared to receive

probably the numbers that

we have seen in 2015 again.

This extraordinary event

that has unfolded

has also impacted Europe

in many ways.

We are here, right now,

on Lesvos Island.

This is the point where

half a million people,

most of them refugees,

set foot and entered Europe.

An... An extraordinary way that

people have been coming through.

And just the last year alone,

over one million have come

to Europe through

the Mediterranean Sea.

And although these are movements

we haven't seen in decades...

In fact, it hasn't been since

the Second World War

that so many had fled

and come to Europe...

It's still something

that we need to consider

in the global context

with so many millions

that are actually displaced.

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[indistinct chatter]

[boy speaking in Arabic]

[boy grunting]

[bird cawing]

[birds and crickets chirping]

[coughing]

[indistinct chatter]

[indistinct chatter]

[coughing]

[train horn]

[indistinct chatter]

- [train horn blowing]

- [train brakes squealing]

[indistinct chatter]

[Bouckaert] The situation

in the camp is bad,

because the borders

are all closed now.

First, the Macedonian border

was closed.

Then the Slovenian and Croatian

and Serbian borders were closed.

So there is no way

for these people to advance

on their journey

to try to get to Germany.

They're now trapped here.

There is about 13,000

people in this camp.

Most of them are from Syria,

Iraq and Afghanistan.

They are fleeing from war.

Uh, I talked to people

who just fled from the bombs

just a few weeks ago.

And they're trapped.

It's been raining since Monday.

Everybody is completely wet.

They have no way

to dry their clothes.

Um, just to get a little bit

of food sometimes...

It takes two hours

to get one cup of soup.

So it really is

a desperate situation.

[indistinct chatter]

[indistinct conversation

in Arabic]

[rain pattering]

[Bouckaert]

So through this little gate,

last year more than

a million people

walked their way to Europe.

This is the gate

that they pass through

along these railway tracks,

going first through Macedonia,

then to Serbia,

then through Croatia.

A million people

walked through this gate.

- [horses snorting]

- [police radio chatter]

[Halmosi] [in foreign language]

How long are you on duty today?

[Grandi]

Europe is an interesting case,

because Europe of course

is the continent

where the refugee convention

was born.

This was one of the essential,

crucial initiatives

that came out

of the Second World War

and of the horrors of the war.

Initially, the focus

was very much on Europe.

It's interesting that

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