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🗓️ 19 November 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm Monica Prandtuk. I cover the European Union for the times and I'm usually |
0:05.5 | based in Brussels but for the past couple of days I've been reporting from the |
0:09.6 | Polish Belarusian border where thousands of asylum seekers from the Middle East |
0:14.2 | are stuck. |
0:18.8 | This is a very very difficult environment. This is one of Europe's oldest and |
0:24.4 | densest forests and in the night the temperatures drop below 32 degrees Fahrenheit |
0:30.6 | and actually I just came back from being outside for two or three hours and I'm |
0:36.9 | literally shaking it so cold. |
0:44.8 | So every day I've been going out with activists that are walking around the |
0:50.0 | forest here looking for people that do make it through and need help. |
0:56.9 | So we are a couple of hundred meters from the main road and there is a boarding pass |
1:05.0 | but sometimes you only find sort of ghosts of migrants that are no longer there. |
1:11.5 | I cannot see the date. Oh no it's here it's 19 of October. So there are boarding |
1:17.8 | passes. Fresh dates from Iran. Winter shoes and backpack. Sleeping bag. Empty |
1:26.1 | medicine packages. Baby diapers, hygienic pads. We even found a box of eyeshadow. |
1:32.7 | Yeah it's a weird weird sight in this forest. So we've been finding all those |
1:39.2 | objects that were signs that there were people there recently but we have not |
1:44.5 | seen actual people crossing until Sunday nights when the activists alerted us |
1:52.3 | that they were going to rescue to Syrian men. |
1:59.3 | We walked through the forest and we arrived and there are two men wrapped in |
2:05.5 | those thermal blankets you know the ones that look like tin foil used for |
2:10.6 | marathons and they're basically completely pale. They were incapable of |
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