There are hundreds, if not thousands, of asylum seekers, sleeping drop, pitched up, ten well done Another dried leaves there are a lot of children here. I can see a tiny baby, I think no older than three months. That's crying. Some of the people here have small

tax, with whatever belongings there were able to rescue. Some are looking at their asylum papers, which are actually probably the most valuable thing they own. Now I think, I'm entering the segments of this street that occupied by Afghans. I can see among helping her little girl p and for some water on her. This is really really grin from the

New York Times. I'm Megan Turkey, this is the daily today thousands of refugees, are on the streets in Greece. After a massive fire burned down their camp. My colleague Mathieu, a service. Goodness on how they ended up there in the first place, it's Thursday September, seventeenth. Machine, tell me about Maria. Maria is a place in Greece have vast sums falling space in the hills of Lisbon, which has a really tourists island in the northeastern Aegean. Over the years the olive groves, this sort of thing

I'm city of hearts and tents and containers has sprung up were thousands and thousands of asylum seekers coming from kind resolve conflict or abject poverty or people facing other and the persecution in their homelands, in the Middle EAST in Africa, I ll swear travel, go through Turkey, get em boats and end up on this island. And how exactly did this happen? How did so many people end up in one place so in order to answer the question. We need to go back to the summer of twenty fifteen, and examine what happened, then, that was the height of the circle, old european refugee crisis,

It was a moment when the syrian conflict was really flaring up. Hundreds of thousands of people, fleeing violence and terror in places like Syria and Iraq, some have come from other parts of the world and are looking for better economic opportunities. People making their way out of Syria and other power, it's of the Middle EAST, transiting through Turkey to the greek Islands and in Greece, desperate people are putting their lives at risk, rubber dinghies. These people, families are just risked their lives, everything they own everybody. They love to cross. This narrow here too, a right here in Greece, movement, but as the refugees recovered from the sea after failed attempts to get to Europe over the last three days. Once again, greek Island of Lesbos saw the most of the misery numbering there were up to three four thousand People arriving every day on these tiny many islands,

I remember there was that photo of this three year old, syrian boy who drowned in the Mediterranean that photo It was so important. There was such a turning point in the development of the early stage of the refugee crisis, because it cause this moral pressure on richer northern european countries, in particular Germany, to open their doors to these people, and that's exactly what happened. German chancellor, Angela Merkel says her country will not limit the number of refugees it takes in she's calling for, other EU members to do the same. Germans gathered at the station to cheer clap as refugees went through a temporary processing centre set up outside Twenty sixteen about one million syrian refugees had left. Greek islands transiting through Europe and reached safe haven

and a new life in Germany. And how does Maria fit into these efforts at the beginning of the crisis The authorities thought they had to do, something that normally happens. When you have a humanitarian disaster of this scale flare up, they thought we will create some basic facilities on this island, which is the first point of entry for these thousands and thousands of people and what will do as will try and offer them some basic things like shelter and food, and we will register their asylum applications and hopefully the plan was back then these people Well, then quickly transit through an asylum system to new homes around Europe, and what is that, two of the Greeks. What is their response to all of these people passing through

So one of the really heartwarming things about this was seeing Greek step up and the people of lesbos just really opening their arms and their hearts to thee refugees, who were for welcoming their island remember, Greece had just means through one of the worst financial crisis in modern history. People were poor, they were devastated unexhausted themselves, but still they offered everything they could and and an early twenty sixteen something happens that makes things worse. What is that? What happens while the European Union sees a situation of dozens of thousands of asylum seekers in Greece, just Even more are continuing. Arrive unless boss laws jeez move nor through the European Union are enduring terrible conditions and resistance of Germany has just.

Registered, ate one millionth refugee and ask people what to send them home Germany, which had opened its doors now appears to be closing them. It's and german, as well as other countries, they don't want to take more people in so they start to close our borders and collect. Hopefully, there looking for a way to just lessen the flow of refugees and asylum seekers into Europe and what they do is this like a deal with a country that these people arriving through, which is Turkey. It's a deal that will affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of stranded refugees and migrants, a game changer in a crisis that shaken the very foundations of the European Union steel, as struck in April twenty sixteen and under the plan starting at midnight on Sunday, all migrants who reach Greece will be sent back to Turkey if their asylum claim is rejected, in return. Turkey gets political and financial rewards,

Basically, what is it is that Europe has a few billion dollars to Turkey to help them fund facility he's and services for the more than three million refugees their hosting to stay there instead of coming. To Greece and moving on into Europe, and Turkey starts to slow down this flow of migrants into Greece by as an entirely stop? People still do cross over to Greece and end up in more so there are just and by the beginning of twenty twenty, It already looks like something is going to go terribly wrong. Prison Third one says the use aid has been slow to come, but Angela Merkel says more than three billion euros, have been paid out and she expects Edwin to hold the deal tensions between Greece and Turkey and the European Union and Turkey begin raising, and Turkey

very end of February twenty Twenty says we ve had enough opening our borders, if you're a refugee if you're a migrant please go to Europe. Our doors are wide open. Wow and not only that, but it actually helps people get to the border with Greece. It buses. Thousands of people, from a stamboul and other parts of the country into Greece, and the people on lesbos are looking at this situation unfolding and their thinking. Turkey is going to releasing boats full of more asylum seekers? Who will come here and our island? as already overwhelmed by the time I visited lesbos and in March this year, the camp had swell to more than tat

thousand people and how are things for the migrants in the camp? That sounds like an absolutely chaotic, difficult combination of forces that these we are dealing with on the island. Well, of course, there are extremely frustrated and living in these squalid conditions by You don't realize, is actually about to get worse because covert heads the first case of covert nineteen is detected and Maria and in response to the greek authorities, put the whole camp unlock down That sets off a lot of anger and a lot of fear in an already really tense environment, and then it all comes to a head

A small group of migrants set fire to the camp and everything burned to the ground, we'll be right back Hi, I'm Kristen minds are, and I'm the co host of innovation uncovered anew pod cast. The world is changing in real time, often in ways we don't notice and can't predict innovation, and covered explores the breakthroughs that our driving our culture. Now from how? play to what we consume to how we can act more more. What the ideas that are reshaping our reality in extraordinary way as enemies uncovered is upon cast from invest, go cute, you too, and t brand at the New York Times, listened today in Basque, tributor. Thank you.

We should give us tonight very, very, very, very difficult. This it was hit by a fires almost completely destroyed Greece's largest refugee camp on the island of less boss. You know what happened with this fire. Scenes of complete chaos. Common visa applause, flames engulfing. This really combustible. Set of materials. You know you have tarpaulin gas canisters at nearly every tend used for cooking and sometimes heating, and these thousands of peace

ball just grabbing everything they could and running out of the camp it went on for to night. As the first big Billy he's on the first night, burned down the majority of the camp, and then additional fires. The second night finished it provides for an. Cause this fire based on testimonies? from greek officials, but also other asylum seekers and aid workers. What happened was that a small group of irate angry asylum seekers who, being asked to quarantine themselves because members

Their family had tested positive for covered vase, I rioting and according to these witnesses, this is how the fire started. And why would this group of migrants set fire to their own camp? People were just extremely upset not only about the overall poor conditions of the camp, but because they felt that covert was being used to hurt them even more. The authorities had tried to prepare some plans for a covert response at the camp, but at the end not much seem to really be they're. So when the outbreak started growing in the camp and thirty five people were tested, positive for covered and Many more people were told they have to quarantine, not in an isolation clinics but in some container

People were very angry, and so after the fire has decimated Maria. I go to less boss to see what's happened so we ve just arrived at one of the spot where asylum seekers who have been displaced by this fire have gathered. There are being blocked by the riot police from going further into town people it clearly is not here for the last three nights waiting to see whether gonna go next and it was just thousands and thousands of people. The street. I remember quite immediately, seeing and mother with a very small baby on the street. They had put down a few blank,

it's that they were using as mattresses and that's where they spend the night before and that's where they were going to spend the night after another is China, clean dirt, tiny piece of three other sleeping on with nature a woman on a scooter adjusts drove past and screams filthy dogs, the asylum seekers? how're you what's your name, what was the last name?

stopped in front of of one family. It was a dad actually with his little girl, and maybe it is a tiny little girl. Working very well. Thank you you're beautiful. Thank you. I love her shoes in and he said to me when the I started edges, grabbed her and took my wife and we just ran changes. You just ran, give running fast, baby, my wife running outside What do you think will happen now and within ten minutes our tent was burn Was everywhere just freedom, Do you want to go? I dont want new camp. I don't worry. I know you don't want rhythm and at that point

this family, with some of their rights lives and other people they knew they had been sleeping on that road for four nights. But he tells me that he's been in Maria for a year, and It actually rather stay on the streets deadlock for tat and you figure. What does that mean when he says he wants to sleep on the street? Why would he want that? The Greek us Ladys had been feverishly but together, a temporary tented shelter for these people, so they wouldn't have to sleep on the street, but people are so system She is so angry, so traumatized by living in moral and by the fire that they just didn't

want to go to the new cap. This man told me I am not going to this new camp and this was something I heard over and over again other there? Good English, you! What's your name, my name, you don't eat yeah. I remember this. Thirteen year old girl, I you be who was care in her little brother, and then she was actually very up. Beaten and quite enthusiastic is very, very cute look similar, love deal very dear So how long have you been on the island? And this? Yes, then, is nine once ok, nine months and where you with your family, when the fire started to phase out nuclear, to hear that I heard that they are making new ten, for you. Do you want to go there? No, no! The tent is not good. I want to go to

Monday, Germany and France. But until you go there, should you not have somewhere to sleep where Europe covered unsafe, rob land and she said to me: listen I don't go to this new cap. I don't want to go to this place that the greek government is is building. I dont like tanks, we don't we don't want to. You know there is a problem and an Maria you did not like living there. Oh no! No, I don't like it boiling lagging living here because he is here is my problem is an even understand he's, not he's very problem here. I understand I'm sorry,

so these refugees are desperate not to end up back in a camp in. So how is this resolved and who resolves it? It's not resolved Megan. It's not result the only positive the news has been that four hundred on a car beneath minor refugees. Children that had arrived in Greece on their own and had been living in Maria on their own, without parents or other family, they have been taken to. There are European Union countries where, hopefully they'll start a life and Germany stepped up and said they would relocate one thousand five hundred people that moves around ten thousand while still in need of resettling, but what's also being clear as a message from the greek authorities.

That there also not in a rush to get people off lesbos, which is what both the locals and the migrants themselves demanding the reason for that. Is they don't want to send a message that if a refugee camp burns down than you get to, to be relocated to Germany or another country, so there is clearly an element of management and some say punishment in this pace at which people or are being resettled in Messina you ve covered the refugee crisis and Maria. Since two thousand fifteen minutes what it's come to now. What do you think happens next well part of me things that if, in two thousand fifteen and two thousand sixteen Europe was able to deal with

than one million refugees arriving, then surely it can humanely handle ten thousand people. This isn't the same kind of crisis, but the cynical sight of me wonder, is if this new tented cam, unless boss will just become another purgatory. There's this greek proverb that is a bit like this. It says there is nothing more permanent ban, Watts temporary, and I think of that. When I think of Maria I asked, how are you speak from English are very good. What's your name, laughable, the Mahabharata. What's your family Life Valley the very young and you're from Afghanistan? Yeah I'm from Greece actually I interviewed this really dynamic. Fifteen

old girl, and she was full of energy how many months have you been on the island ten months, ten months she said, she'd been unless was for ten months. She came from. Stan we coming in here, because we want the future and we are waiting because Maria it's a building again. You don't want to go back to Maria, What about the new ten said, they're making do you want to go there and on what she said? She wanted to go to Germany to have a future to build a life I want to go through their many french quantity, for I can make a future I want to go. I think it goes not. Like me,

But what struck me was that even someone, this young, who clearly had so much hope for the future in tat moment in time. She was beginning to give up on that hope and coming in here, but I think now I wish you wish. You had not come to grace yeah. You wish you are back in Ghana. Yeah she fell that, after living and Maria for ten months without school after this fire, after everything that had happened to her she just wasn't sure it had been worth leaving Afghanistan in the first place. Good luck thanks for talking to me. I think I feel two things about the situation. I witnessed the

is that there's just so much human energy and potential among these people that no country will accept and their stock in some of the worst conditions and the other thigh was that precisely because no country will accept them. Maria, which was supposed to be this transitory, plays We'll never really be a transitory place was to be these places where our hopes- and rather than begin or thank you so much Montana. Thanks for having.

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