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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, travels to the Jaber border in Jordan to witness the nightly exodus of Syrian refugees. UNHCR
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STORY: JORDAN / GUTERRES
TRT: 2.36
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 13 MARCH 2013, JABER BORDER CROSSING, JORDAN

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Shotlist

1. Various, crowds of refugees crossing the border in darkness of night
2. Wide shot, a young couple pushes a cart loaded with their belongings
3. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, walks with the refugees in the darkness of night
4. Wide shot, a mother holds on to her children while walking
5. Med shot, a boy walks wrapped in a blanket
6. Wide shot, Jordanian soldiers help a woman in a wheel chair cross the border
7. Wide shot, a wounded old man lies on a stretcher, attended by military doctors
8. Med shot, military doctors examine the wounded old man
9. Med shot, wounded old man is loaded into an ambulance
10. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“We are facing tragedy in its most dramatic way. Night, after night, after night, you see women, children, elderly people, some wounded, many with enormous trauma because of the violence they have suffered, and lost members of the family, and they have lost all their belongings, and they come walking to reach safety in Jordan. It is a terrible tragedy. It is the horror of this never ending conflict.”
11. Wide shot, a young boy stands alone inside a make-shift shelter holding his baby sister
12. Close up, “Hitan”, the young boy’s one month old baby sister
13. Med shot, young boy holding his baby sister, Hitan
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Interview with boy:
-Interviewer:“How old is she?”
-Boy: “She is one month old.”
15. Med shot, children handed drinks by Jordanian soldier
16. Close up, boy stands in line
17. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“I appeal to parliaments and to governments to approve extraordinary funds to support the Syrian victims, to support the countries that are receiving them, to allow our humanitarian action to be much more effective than it is now.”
18. Wide shot, tent with a few refugees outside
19. Wide shot, young child crying while her mother tries to comfort them as they stand outside in darkness of night
20. Wide shot, mother and child walk towards a bus
21. Wide shot, a Jordanian soldier helps an old man with belongings

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Storyline

Out of the night, they appear. Hundreds of people on the move.

Their flight into darkness. A search for safety.

These Syrian men, women, and children have walked for hours to reach this Jordanian border point

And at the moment they cross, their lives are forever changed.

They are now refugees.

On this night, António Guterres, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees came to the border, to witness an exodus that occurs, night after night.

Parents hold on their frightened children for fear of losing them.

A boy clings to a blanket to keep warm.

A disabled woman is wheeled to safety by Jordanian soldiers.

A wounded man arrives on a stretcher, and is immediately seen by a military doctor.

The Jordanian military have helped hundreds of thousands since the beginning of this crisis.

Fawaz explains that he was shot three times in his own home, in Daara.

His wounds are serious, but not life threatening, the doctor tells him. He will be taken by ambulance to a nearby Jordanian hospital to be operated on.

These are all scenes of a humanitarian tragedy.

SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“We are facing tragedy in its most dramatic way. Night, after night, after night, you see women, children, elderly people, some wounded, many with enormous trauma because of the violence they have suffered, and lost members of the family, and they have lost all their belongings, and they come walking to reach safety in Jordan. It is a terrible tragedy. It is the horror of this never ending conflict.”

A young seven year boy carried his little sister Hitan for much of the way.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Interview with boy:
-Interviewer:“How old is she?”
-Boy: “She is one month old.”

The children talk fearfully of planes in the skies. Of bombs falling on their villages. For them, the safety of home and school has long been gone from their young lives.

There are now well over one millions Syrian refugees spread across the region in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Iraq. All fragile countries in need of international support.

SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“I appeal to parliaments and to governments to approve extraordinary funds to support the Syrian victims, to support the countries that are receiving them, to allow our humanitarian action to be much more effective than it is now.”

The toll of the Syrian war can be seen here. In this nightly exodus of refugees.

These family will be quickly registered and bused to Za'atri refugee camp.

They have escaped the horrors of war. But not the memories.

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