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Speaker 1: Kevin Gray from the UK joins us Hellogavin either andrew

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Speaker 1: awful lot of Syrians, awful lot of Syrians in the UK.

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Speaker 1: So where is the UK standing on the Syrian issue

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Speaker 1: right now?

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Speaker 2: Well, they have decided to pause decisions on further Syrian

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Speaker 2: asylum claims after Basha Alisade was overthrown. The government's saying

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Speaker 2: the situation's moving fast. Some people are returning to Syria

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Speaker 2: following recent developments. But there's another theory. With so many

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Speaker 2: refugees out of Syria, some may actually, you know, think no,

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Speaker 2: actually that I'm going to try and make the journey anyway.

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Speaker 2: So there's almost fear, as it were, of a second wave.

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Speaker 2: Between twenty eleven and twenty twenty one, more than thirty

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Speaker 2: thousand Syrians were granted asylum in the UK. There was

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Speaker 2: a big program to allow them in. However, more than

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Speaker 2: nine thousand Syrians have also been picked up on the coast,

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Speaker 2: entering the country illegally, having crossed the channel in small boats. Indeed,

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Speaker 2: Syrians accounted for the fifth largest number of silent claims

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Speaker 2: in the year ending of September this year, and almost

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Speaker 2: all those who rec question asylum have been given the

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Speaker 2: right to stay. So the big question is now, with

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Speaker 2: this pausing, what will happen after that? And will some

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Speaker 2: of those some thirty forty thousand still estimated to be

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Speaker 2: in the UK, will they stay or will they actually

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Speaker 2: decide to go back to Syria.

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Speaker 1: And so that explains why you see just incredible pictures

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Speaker 1: out a Trafagar Square of celebrations after what happened. But

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Speaker 1: here's the big question for the world, what will happen next. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: speaking of migrants, what's happening in Germany?

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Speaker 2: Well, believe it or not, Facilitating people smigling is not

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Speaker 2: technically illegal in Germany currently if that country that their

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Speaker 2: third country is outside the EU, and of course, following

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Speaker 2: Brexit that means the UK. So it is thought that

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Speaker 2: actually Germany has inadvertently become a central hub to the

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Speaker 2: people smiggling networks, using Germany as sort of warehousing for

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Speaker 2: boats and then getting the boats to the French shores

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Speaker 2: northern France in order to get across to the UK.

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Speaker 2: But Germany has finally agreed to tighten its law to

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Speaker 2: make it much easier to prosecute those helping to smuggle

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Speaker 2: migrants to the UK. A new plan has green agreed

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Speaker 2: by the two countries in the past. Our new Prime

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Speaker 2: Minister as of July Sekirstarmers said that many of the

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Speaker 2: previous plans by the previous governments simply weren't workable. He

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Speaker 2: said he was going to go after the people smugglers,

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Speaker 2: try to get cooperation from the rest in Europe and

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Speaker 2: perhaps this is a sign that this may help. However,

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Speaker 2: once you cover off one tentacle of these networks, have

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Speaker 2: seems that at least another one or two seem to grow.

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Speaker 2: So I'm not quite sure what effect this will have,

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Speaker 2: but so far andrew more than thirty three thousand across

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Speaker 2: the English Channel by small boats into the UK illegally.

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Speaker 2: That's considerably higher than the twenty nine thousand from all

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Speaker 2: of last year.

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Speaker 1: Good Sir Kevin Gray from the UK.

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