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UNHCR / GRANDI LESVOS
STORY: UNHCR / GRANDI LESVOS
TRT: 02:33
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 21-22 FEBRUARY, 2016, LESVOS, GREECE
1. Wide shot, coast guard vessel mooring
2. Various shots, Syrian refugees helped from boat
3. Med shot, High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi with coast guard chief
4. Close up, computer screen with sea map
5. Wide shot, open water back of vessel
6. Tracking shot, High Commissioner arrives at Moria
7. Wide shot, people in line waiting for processing
8. SOUNDUP (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“How old? He is very small. 22 days.”
9. Various shots, Tallal family on pier walking
10. Close up, Saddam with sister
11. Various shots, Tallal's children
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tallal, Syrian Refugee:
“This is their fate. Who knows, I hope, God willing, the war will end in Syria, and we can return. My country is good; my country is precious to me. And because of my children, I was scared and I had to leave my country.”
13. Wide shot, refugees descending from coast guard ship
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“I am very worried about the news we are getting about the increasing closures of the European borders along the Balkans route. Because that will create further chaos and confusion and it will increase the burden on Greece which is already shouldering a big responsibility managing these people. And this happening when we are not yet having alternatives.”
15. Various shots, High Commissioner walking in cemetery
16. Wide shot, graves
17. Close up, flowers with grave behind
18. Tilt down, High Commissioner bends over to pick up toy
On his first visit to the island of Lesvos as UN High Commissioner, Filippo Grandi called for a far greater European effort to help migrants and refugees and expressed concern about the increasing closures of the European borders along the Balkans route.
Grandi visited a Greek coast guard that earlier in the day brought in the latest group of new arrivals to reach Greece. They had been rescued coming from Turkey in rubber dinghies. Almost a dozen dinghies had come ashore over night.
Later he visited the Moria registration centre, where the hundreds who arrive each day are processed. There Grandi met refugees who had just arrived.
Like Tallal, holding his daughter Fatma.
SOUNDUP (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“How old? He is very small. 22 days.”
Tallal, his wife and 7 children were rescued from their dinghy by the coast guard yesterday.
A year and a half ago they fled their war-destroyed house in Hamaa to Turkey where they picked cotton to find the $4,000 to pay smugglers to make the crossing.
He dreams of a better life in Europe for his children.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tallal, Syrian Refugee:
“This is their fate. Who knows, I hope, God willing, the war will end in Syria, and we can return. My country is good; my country is precious to me. And because of my children, I was scared and I had to leave my country.”
Europe is becoming less welcoming. Grandi warned of the dangerous consequences.
SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“I am very worried about the news we are getting about the increasing closures of the European borders along the Balkans route. Because that will create further chaos and confusion and it will increase the burden on Greece which is already shouldering a big responsibility managing these people. And this happening when we are not yet having alternatives.”
In late afternoon, Grandi paid homage to refugees who never left Lesvos. He climbed to the top of St. Pantelaimonas cemetery where more than 150 are buried.
Most drowned, many were children, their short lives marked by soft toys.
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