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Germany is changing really fast and lost their identity. Berlin, once divided by the Berlin Wall, still feels divided today. In the last video, we saw why many believe the divide is still there. With the rise of the AFT becoming the second largest party in the German election, some believe the country is moving backwards to the 1930s. We are talking about fascism rising; they're Nazis, racist, anti-LGBTQ. Migration plays a big part in the divide, as Germany takes in the third largest amount of refugees in the world, with 2024 being the highest year on record, with over 3.4 million refugees now in the country. Would you let them into your house to live if if they needed it? I say, answer your question: would you do this? If you have a country like Germany where you have another few million immigrants come in from countries that are totally culturally incompatible with Germany, then it doesn't matter what I think about Europe; Germany will have killed itself.
Concerns over national security have grown, and a surge in terror attacks in the past year has raised questions on who comes in and who goes out. That's why we say, first of all, is secure the border. [Music] But before meeting with Martin, a member of the AFD, and visiting Europe's largest refugee center, I want to know what Berlin locals had to say after the election.
So you're local to Berlin; what's your opinion on migration?
I'm from Berlin, and I grew up in a primary where the majority of the people had a migration background, and for me it was a kind of richness, a cultural richness, and for this I love to live in Berlin.
What's your opinions on multiculturalism in general? Do you think it's working right now, maybe just within Europe?
Um, well, I think it's always working because migration is like part of our basics, as far as I'm concerned. What is not working is people's opinion on migration nowadays and the populism that is thriving. I think it's a really big problem that it's made out to be such a big problem by right-wing extremists or other politicians, because people have a right to get away from wars, from climate change.
Do you believe Germany should be importing illegal migrants from, say, Afghanistan and Syria?
Yeah, for sure. Yes, for sure. All countries where it's necessary.
Why do you think that?
Because if you have an country where there's war, nobody wants to live in a country where there's war, you know. So if I want, if I have war here in our country, I also want that other countries give us a chance to go there and live there in peace and happiness.
How do you feel about the open border policy that Germany is kind of implementing? I know they're trying to tighten it at the minute, but do you think they should have an open border policy, welcoming anyone and everyone?
I would say yes, of course, definitely. I think it should be easier to get into Germany or like Europe in general, um, so that everyone is safe here and we are helping them because they are in danger. It's also our responsibility with colonialism and the whole history and also with having wars at different parts of the world; it's German weapons and European weapons that are causing the problems and also our wealth that is causing the problem in the world where refugees are seeking refuge in these countries. So it's not that easy to say we are welcoming people because we are also responsible for a lot of global um, inequality.
As an architect—I'm being trained as an architect—there's only limited space sometimes, you know, for a certain period of time. Kind of housing crisis is not helping. I have friends that are kind of pointing at migrants, saying that's the reason why. When a person who's traumatized and has the right to get asylum here tries to get that right, you can't just say, "Okay, this is the amount of people we're taking and not move on."
Right now in Germany, do you think migration is working?
Um, no.
Why is that?
Because the people who are like come from different countries, I wouldn't say they help the people to migrate into this society. It's not about the people; it's about the regime. I would say they're not helping enough. I think it's very difficult for them, and I have a lot of friends from Afghanistan, and I know that they have so many problems, and I think we would have less problems with migration if we would help them more for integration.
Just over the past 12 months, Germany has seen five terror attacks from asylum seekers. Do you think that is due to them not being integrated into society?
For sure. Yes, for sure. Yes, for sure. If you don't, if if you if you didn't feel welcome, then you are angry a lot, then you feel then you feel a lot of angry in your in your body, and then but but is is it right to take your anger out on the German people? No, it's it's not, but I see it like just like a child. If you didn't take care of your child and didn't listen to your child, it will be making angry things and stupid things. Sure, but these are like middle-aged men, half the time who are, you know, have the… Yeah, from both from both sides. Yeah, the one in the one in Maktub was in was an fully integrated doctor in hospital, so why why he did it. And also we see a lot of attacks from people who are from the right side in Germany, you know. How now 10 people died for nothing, so it's the same…
One argument is that is due to radical Islam. Do you think that's a case to be argued?
I I have so many friends who are Muslim, and Islam is one of the nicest religions, so I didn't think it have anything to do with with Islam. Issue is religion; I think that's the main problem here, like religion in all forms, as far as I'm I'm concerned. Where extruism in religion is making people do stuff that is wrong, no matter where you're from. I mean, you're an idiot if you uh uh do a terrorist attack, as far as I know. I mean, when three persons are doing something illegal, there are millions more who are my friends and and and they are nice people. I don't think that Islam is the problem; I think the people are the problem, and um, the most people are men.
Do you think German tax money should be spent on housing the people coming as refugees?
No, because actually we we need the money, like we the taxes… We have to pay a lot of taxes, and I would say maybe maybe a part of it, but these people who are like migrating here, they should pay taxes as well.
Do you think that can happen by the government trying to help them find them jobs? Could that be one way that they can do it?
Of course. Migrants that come here or um, asylum seekers want to work, but they are not allowed to work. So um, they want to contribute contribute to the state and pay their taxes, but they are forbidden to do so. And so yeah, of course they should be housed with with tax money because that's a part, the small part of the responsibility that I've talked before. Maybe Germany should be more fair um, to pay every like refugee the same, because I know that they make like a huge difference between like the refugees from Ukraine and like other countries, because they they get paid more and like they they get like easy access to like living spaces and all that stuff, and that should be fair, and I think that is the problem. But I mean, I'm not like I'm I'm going to pay for them if they need it.
So would you house one of them if if they needed a house?
If I would build a house? No, no.
Would you would you let them into your house to live if if they needed it?
27 square… like I mean an apartment, if they want to fit in, go for it. Yeah.
How many would you house?
It's barely enough space for me though, so yeah, I don't know. You know, the government's helping people from which are not from Germany, but the people who are in Germany like getting poorer and poorer, that the older people who like built up this country again, they'll leave them get left behind. Yeah, get left behind, and they have to like pick up those uh, bottles and for for getting some money; there is a tax also on it. Yeah, this isn't right.
Why do you think the AFD are becoming so popular in Germany right now?
I think that's because everything's more complex, and people are afraid of things, and then they are looking for easy solutions, and the AFD at the moment is offering easy solutions. So there's one scapegoat, one group of people, which are the people that migrated here. Yeah, it's basically just a lot of hate towards a group of people that is not responsible for the complexity.
Did you ever see the uh, the leader of AFD?
Oh my god, she's not able to use makeup well. How she can manage a party?
How do you feel in East Berlin specifically? AFD got double their votes this election. How do you how do you feel about this?
Embarrassed, like definitely embarrassed, also like giving like a racist wipe completely. Yeah.
Why do you think it's racist?
I mean, they've been talking a lot about illegal immigration, people coming into the country unvetted, because the the the whole party… yeah, the party, the whole party like did so many like very like susk things, like they put like plane tickets into like the mailboxes of like um, German people with like migration background so that they can yeah, like go back to your country, and like that is really racist.
Would you support the kind of remigration kind of I've been hearing about recently? Would you support this from the AFD?
Uh, the idea of the remigration is to not just get uh, immigrants that were not accepted here as asylum seekers out of the country, but also Germans that just have a migrational background out of the country, and that I really cannot support because it is against the constitution that we have, and it's really just about the people that are here maybe illegally and don't have their asylum accepted. We are talking about fascism rising; we have had that 80 years ago, and the people obviously forgot about it or they don't want to remember.
Do you truly believe these people are like real like supporters of that of that time? Do you think it's evolved to something more neutral or like less aggressive and extreme?
Well, I don't think that these people do want exactly the the same that we heard from 1933 and so on, probably not, um, but 1/5th of the voters… Yeah, voters vote for Putin; this is a fascist, so what what do we expect? What do you can you expect from this country? Yeah, some I guess are really right-wing, to be honest. I'm also anxious really or a bit scared of the the left side really.
Why is that?
Yeah, that this was so strong, especially on the left side. Come on, here is a former GDR; they should remember, of course, the younger generation never experienced, but this was an actually example that socialism or communism really doesn't work really. I'm actually worrying also about that.
Yeah, Berlin is very left, isn't it?
Yeah, I've heard in general women tend to vote more left. Why do you think that is in Germany?
Um, because a woman can think; they have like a brain, and they use it.
Do you think the opinions in Berlin won't reflect the whole of Germany? Do you think this is just more…
No, not at all. Not at all. Uh, I mean, you know, look at the election results, right? Where else in Germany did you have left to become the strongest party? You maybe some other larger cities, but yeah… Do do you think it could ever change that Berlin could become your AFD one day or more right? Do you think that is like that could ever happen?
Yeah, I mean, sure, definitely, but um, right now I'm I'm not seeing it. I think it's still, if it ever happens, it's far off.
Before the election, I met up with Martin, a member of the AFD, and headed to Neukölln, an example of Berlin's uncontrolled mass migration policy, with an estimated 48% of the population with the migrant background and a high percentage not having German as their native language. It's where locals say Berlin turns into a broken state as migrants fail to integrate. But before we go there, as you've probably seen from my videos, talking to both sides can be really challenging sometimes; it depends on what happens on the day, but that's also the beauty of these videos. However, one way I do stay informed from both sides is by subscribing to Ground News. It's a website app that collects articles from a wide range of publications; it shows their bias, whether they lean left or right, their factuality, and even who owns them, whether they're state-funded like the BBC or independent like myself. Consuming the news via social media, we're all stuck in our own algorithmic echo chambers. That's why it's really important that we're getting the full perspective. Take this article I found on Ground News about the terror attack in Munich—car ramming in Munich and just 28 at trade union demonstration. Out of the 486 news articles Ground News found, the right and left frame them very differently. On the left, Washington Post reads, "Car plows into Munich crowd in suspected attack, authorities say." In the center, Financial Times reads, "Afghan rams car into pedestrians in Munich, injuring two dozen." And on the right, Irish Independent reads, "At least 30 people injured; asylum seeker drives car into crowd in Munich." You can see on the left they focus on the vehicle, whereas on the right they focus on the driver. It's really important when covering sensitive topics so we don't jump to conclusions, but by reading multiple perspectives, we can make better, more informed decisions and truly understand the political divide. That's why I personally use Ground News, especially of how frequently these events are happening. Subscribe to get 40% off the advantage plan by scanning the QR code on screen or using my link: ground.news/wesley.
Yeah, what's the kind of feeling at the minute with Germans and obviously the recent terror attacks that have happened? Is there kind of a fear amongst the people right now?
There's a fear uh, among the people, and also they are angry. So everybody say after attack it was so terrible; we are so sad. For my opinion, the AFD is the only party who would uh, change anything.
What is happening to freedom of speech in general in Germany right now? Because I've seen doors being kicked down for tweets online and similar to what we've seen in England as well.
Uh, for example, our uh, vice chancellor Robert Harve from the Green Party was called by a private person—nobody knows him before—I think on Facebook as awak… okay uh, not even a really bad word, so it's like stupid or something. Yeah, it's it's quite silly, I would say, uh, but he suited him, and he have to pay for this, and I can't believe that you can't criticize your government also on a routeway.
Do you know how much it was the fine?
I have to look at the newspaper; I think it was 3,000.
3,000? And that's that's disgusting. Wow. People name myself and our party like nasty Nazi fascist and so on; obviously it's not true, but we say okay, it's your opinion; do whatever you want, but if you call a minister an idiot, you get fined.
Yeah, but you can call someone a Nazi. I mean, is that not like the worst insult? You can call a German a Nazi. I mean, we hear it a lot; I hear it a lot when I go to protest in the UK.
Does it kind of devalue the word if you're just calling anybody a Nazi?
I think it's uh, it's also a big problem because you're normalizing the crimes of the Nazi party, because when you say it's being a Nazi when you're pro free speech or you want only to control the migration, that's Nazi. So somebody who is not well educated maybe say, oh okay, maybe it's not that bad what the Nazis do when this is Nazi. It's the heart of Neukölln city district where the rents are a bit lower; many students but also many migrants. So here, this is just where migrants tend to live, just because yeah, lower cost of living. Yeah, and Muslim communities. Okay, so no integration. Yeah, it's almost like a parallel universe, every street corner, isn't it? You can't really go anywhere without seeing this sort of thing.
Yeah, you have also a big truck problem here. Here are public toilets; I can show you a picture. Bloody hell, look at that. Oh, okay, have to blur that out, but some needles everywhere. I mean, that's a big mess there was right there. No way. And they say that, you know, migration doesn't increase crime, but would you say there is a high level of crime in places like Neukölln? Is this where there's more crime?
You're going to find so many robberies, drug crimes, and also aggressive people living here. So simple argument can build up to a big problem.
So you feel like this this area is almost like a breeding ground for crime, and that's where they choose to live?
Do you believe if asylum seekers come to Berlin, they prefer or they will come here rather than integrate into more, say, German national areas? I guess, would they prefer to come here? Will they come here?
So I think there are different groups. For example, when there are people from Lebanon, then they want to go to areas where other people from the Lebanon are living; they don't want to integrate; they want to live among their people, but in Germany with state money. Then you have areas like this. Back in the days, we have workers from Turkey; they came to Berlin in the '70s; they call them guest workers; was planted there, came temporary, but then they stayed. Many of them would be housed in this area, so that's why the Turkish community is so big here, more Muslim-leaning community, and so other Muslim communities also came to Neukölln.
So is your idea of remigration in general—although maybe back in the '70s you might have needed those Turkish workers—is your idea that eventually they need to go back to almost empower the country where they came from? So develop the skills here in Germany, but then go back to make say Turkey better or Lebanon better? Is that also the argument?
Yeah, absolutely. For example, the asylum seekers from Syria, and they came to Germany now the war in Syria is finished; we say they have to go home, and also not because we don't want them here, but also because they can help establish the country again. We have the problem that people coming to Germany with nothing, living from state money, also no chance that they're getting integrated because they're living in communities like this where the Germans are in a decline.
Would you say an area like this is kind of an exception in Berlin? You don't get many areas that look like this, or is this slowly and surely going to be what Berlin could look like in the future?
And that's the point. Some years ago, it was only a few districts, but they are getting larger and larger. And first of all, it's one kebab shop, yeah, and then on the opposite side they open a shisha bar and a shop for halal meat and so on, and even more, then you have a street where Muslims are feeling quite well, and then more coming, and so on, then a mosque open or a Turkish culture community house or something else, and then more and more, and people who don't like this, they leave.
Did Germans ask for this? I mean, do you think the average German wants this in their in their cities and capital cities like Berlin?
No, absolutely not. Um, that's why so many Germans leaving Berlin.
Okay, local criminal, I think you just want to be on camera; that's usual. Are you local to this area?
Uh, we are we are originally from Dsten… Drist.
Okay, so you've come to Berlin. How do you feel coming to an area like this? What's your kind of opinion on migration? Do you think this is good for Germany or bad for Germany?
It's kind of good for the country, you know, because these people make this country look colorful, we think, and we really appreciate it, so we like it. We like that our country is colorful and that our many people are here.
Sure, but do do you think in areas like this, having a kebab shop and a phone shop on every street corner is a positive thing for for Germany?
It's cool; we like kebab. It's cool. Yeah, and [ __ ] you after [ __ ] the Nazis. You know, is it is it Nazi for wanting your city to look more German or to have secure borders instead of the open borders that we've seen?
Many people want to Germany more safe, and I can yeah, understand it, but it's like really bad when they like… not the immigrants… not the immigrants are the problem… mostly men… out of problem in Germany right now. In the past 12 months, you've had five terror attacks, all from Afghan Syrians. Does that pose an issue?
It's bad; it's not… it's bad, but there's not only terrorist attacks; there are also many other people and German people who are attacking people, but you don't see it on the media.
Well, very different opinions to your own. How did you feel about that?
Yeah, it's very typical that young people came to Berlin for partying and shopping and so on, but they are not confronted with the problems of the city, but it's uh, different when you are have to live here and quite interesting to have all of these shops and have the opportunity to taste different cuisines and so on, but it's only one side. And in these communities…
Do you believe it's just as they say, economic migrants, but as well as that, just young males coming into these places, and just demographically we know that young males in general, whether which country they come from, they commit more crimes?
Yeah, that's what the people are fearing about. You have also the problem; many Muslim cultures and countries, it's allowed to have more than one woman; obviously there are men without a woman, and this let them be more aggressive, and we import also these conflicts when we have the people here. Germany has an issue of Islamist; obviously we've seen the terrorist attacks. Yeah.
Would you say there's an issue right now in Germany with Islam?
Absolutely. It's not only a religion; you can believe in whatever you want; we have a freedom in religious race, but it's I think Islam is also for many people and political ideology; that's the problem. They believe that non-Muslim people are bad people; these terror attacks based on it that they believe it's allowed to kill Christians or atheists and so on.
So in general, do you think there's a divide right now in Germany?
Yeah, that's a problem when everybody can came to your country; you have problems on so many sides, and they're going into the parties and pushing their ideas forward. You have seen Ferat Koçak from Tinka here; Hakan Değirmenci; it's not very typical German, and they're running for Bundesak, and they're putting their ideas into our laws. I think in Great Britain it's even more worse because on the regional elections we see that in many cities there are also Muslim candidates and parties; they are winning, and that's something we would see in Germany also in the future. You see the the sign; yeah, that's the entrance for the mosque. There are places where the extremist ideology of these tourists is building up and preach beach there. I don't know what these guys doing, but it's sample how it is. Okay.
Do you like living here in this area?
Uh, yeah, it's back in the days, yes, but uh, not anymore.
Do you think it's a problem that this area doesn't look very German?
It's not even any more mixed; there is no mix; totally [ __ ] up.
What in particular do you think is bad about having one, say, nationality or one culture in the area? What what is bad about this?
Here's no integration; the integration doesn't work, and people coming to this place, but there there's no integration. Was he a German local do you think or has he just lived here long enough that he probably has German citizenship?
I think he has some Turkish roots. Okay, maybe mixed, but interesting to see that he has this point of view that yeah, not enough is being done to integrate, and he's lived here long enough to see the change. And like you said, Germany is changing, and Berlin is changing. Basically said that uh, was every time the mix plays, I think he mean uh, you lost the German side of the mix here. Hello. You speak English? Okay. Do you want to translate? Arabic? Arabish? Oh, don't speak German? No German? Okay. Okay. Okay. No worries. Thank you. No German. No German. So I actually saw with that shopkeeper just there; we just spoke to him, and…
We asked him if he spoke English, if he spoke Arabic, if he spoke German. He said no to both. He speaks Arabic. So that's the kind of scenario you're having in this area; that Arabic speakers are just communicating and living amongst each other.
So if you speak to most people from Berlin about this area, what would they say? That they don't want to live here. You see, it's not a nice place. You can't speak in your own language here. Everybody who can afford to live in other places are going to other places.
So me and Martin just walked through this park, and if you just go to the top of it, you're going to find how many drug dealers were there? About five or six, isn't it? This is what's happening on just your local park in these kind of areas. There's not kids playing football or playing on the swings. Just go out and see a couple drug dealers. Certain nationalities we were seeing as well; they weren't the local Germans selling the drugs. I saw no—it's people, uh, I think these guys were from Africa. The second group was something Arabic.
How is it to like raise a family here in Germany at the minute? We have schools here in Berlin where the percentage of migrants is like up to 80%. When you take your children to school, they lost their German language because there are so many people from Arabic states or Turkish people; they can't talk German. So foreign children are integrating though, like do the teachers allow them to adapt and learn the language, or is it kind of a case where the Germans have to adapt to them? I think it's the second case. So there is no integration when you are the only German in the class; so you have to integrate in the migrant group.
Sure. And you think that's the kind of future of Berlin and Germany as a whole, that there's just going to be less and less Germans? I hope not. That's why I do politics, for example. We are fighting for there is a strict quote of percentages. What's the highest rate of non-German-talking children in classes? Sure. And we want tests before you go to school; you have to check that you're speaking German, obviously based on the age level. When you don't talk German, you learn nothing, and it's also a big problem for the migrant children because you're going every day to school and you don't understand anything, so obviously become more aggressive when they're getting older.
Sure. I found this online the other day. It was about Berlin, and it was 2023 top three children's names. Number three is Adam, number two is Noah. Do you want to guess what number one is? Muhammad. Muhammad, yeah. How does that make you feel as a German, Muhammad being the most popular boy's name in Germany? Yeah, it's a problem. So we want to keep Germany as a German country. So we have no problems with people from other nations, but it's a quantity; so there are too many, and Germany is changing really fast and lost their identity.
It seems like Germany is becoming more and more woke. I mean, you mentioned before they're not speaking German in their classes. Yeah, a boy now can be a girl, a girl can now be a boy. Where do you think it ends? I mean, what does the future of Germany look like, even a couple years' time? Now we are on a turning point at the moment. So it was too much on a moral way; we are rising up. So we are here in Shalotenborg, in the Zashasa, and this looks like a normal office building at the moment. It is a normal office building, but the politicians of Berlin they want to make an asylum seeker accommodation here. So they reconstruct the building for over 100 million euro, and then there are places for 1,500 people. And here in this area, you see it's quite normal; you have working-class people, teachers, and so on here. And so they are protested against this, and now the Berlin government have the brilliant idea to only keep 950 asylum seekers in here, and the other places they want to give to students.
I also ask the mayor of this district, "Would you put your daughter, when she goes to university, into a house with 950 Afghans, Syrians, and so on?" She shouted at me, "These are racist thinking; I can't believe you said this." I say, "Answer the question, would you do this?" Didn't get an answer. Wow. So with this place, they're going to—they would have students as well as asylum seekers share accommodation. Wow. I mean, we have this argument in the UK about putting the homeless people in there first. Do you have this kind of argument too in Germany? Yeah, it's also a discussion here, but um, homeless people in Berlin is also in many cases a migrant problem, I would say. You also can solve this problem in many cases with remigration. So yeah, that's been a big policy with AFD, isn't it? But remigration also been recently data that's been published by, I think it's by the said there was no correlation with increased migrants in an area and increased crime. Do you believe that? Uh, I don't believe it, and I think the EO also didn't do this because they say migrants are more likely to do crimes because they live in areas where the people are doing more crimes. So that's not the way you can argument. I think it's [ __ ] this paper. If you look at at the statistics, crimes on sexual harassment, like rapes and so on, people from Afghanistan, for example, 40 times more often doing crimes like this. These are points you can't deny.
Yeah, and you're talking about the per capita stats because obviously there's more Germans than there are Afghans. So you feel at the moment Germany are just importing problems that wouldn't be there or would be decreased if these asylum seekers and migrants weren't here. We're importing them. You can't see an end. That's why we say, first of all, is secure the border. When you don't do this, you can't solve any problem.
Yeah, so you think overall the migrants that you're bringing in are net negative to Berlin; they're not adding anything positive overall to the city and maybe to Germany as well, in general? Yes. There are obviously exceptions from this. We have no problems with Japanese people or people from Poland or so on. We have a problem on the quality of the people; they come often. Our politicians talk, we need well-experienced workers, but when you have so high taxes like Germany, why should he come to Germany, pay like the half of the getting paid to the state? They're going to places like Switzerland or the US where they get well paid and have less taxes. So wouldn't you argue that potentially could be more a government issue where the government should be putting in policies, for example, reducing taxes that attracts more German citizens to stay in cities like Berlin? But could you also argue that it's not the migrants' fault; it could be to do with tax policies to keep Germany German, basically? I would say it's never be the fault of the migrants. I can understand that you want to come to Germany and have a better life here, but it's the task of the state, of the government, to control it. At the moment we have open borders and say everybody is welcome, and then bad people say, "Hey, I'm also everybody; I can come and do whatever I want."
Yeah, we have a big problem in Berlin with clans, families like the mafia, but from Palestina or Lebanon and so on; they are controlling the drug market, doing proced, so similar to the UK. Your argument is that if you look at the types of crimes that are being committed, then you can point to the so-called illegal migrants who have come to the country, commit theft, you know, knife crime; they're the ones you're pointing at. Yeah, knife crime is a big deal at the moment in Germany. We have so many cases. When you are in a big city, it can happen everywhere and every time. So it seems it doesn't matter where you are, UK, Europe; everyone's living with this fear, and a fear that we didn't once have. I think it's gotten—I think it's gotten higher, yeah, for everyone, isn't it?
The planned accommodation in Chelottenberg highlights Berlin's overcrowded asylum system. After the election, 155 Afghans were flown into Berlin. Many will likely end up at Europe's largest refugee center, the former Tegle airport. All right guys, so I'm right outside Tegel airport. The only way to get there is by bus. I'm getting this 410 bus which takes you to the airport, but this is where they're housing over 5,000 refugees that have come mostly from Ukraine. I'm not sure if I'm going to get access, but we're going to try and head there. It's literally just across this bridge. Apparently the only way to get there is by some sort of free shuttle bus that they offer to refugees that do come here. So hopefully we'll get in and speak to some people. If not, we can just film on the outside, but you can just see the scale of it just here. It's all completely fenced off. People have compared this online to a prison. You kind of get a bit of a view of it. Film inside the accommodation and was eventually told to leave. So if people want to go to the city center, they have to take this bus, like like we're doing now. Here you can see how many people are in this bus, but yeah, really interesting. People would have traveled hundreds of miles just to be here in search of a better life here in Germany. Didn't manage to speak to many of the refugees; um, that watched me very closely with the camera as I was there, so I couldn't film. But maybe when we get off the bus, potentially we could. So yeah, guys, everyone who just got off this bus is literally from the refugee center, and I guess some of them maybe will hang around here, but the rest of them are going to go to the city center. Um, yeah, let me show you guys actually how it looks.
Hey, bro. Are you from here? No. Okay. You live here? I was lived here. Totally disaster. Really, really. But now, now you have a job? No, I don't have a job. I have a job before, but now I ended my German course. Why? Why did you live there? One year, that's a long time. Yeah, and this, it's horrible. Horrible food, horrible sleeping place, because it's a very—a lot of people in one square. Do they share the room with like Ukraine people? Ukraine stay together, or you're with anyone? There is a lot of people from Ukraine, some from Afghanistan, Serbia, but little bit separated. Why did you stay there for one year? That's too long. I thought maybe one or two months people stay here. No, no. They every time they make for longer and longer time. This place make for 26 days to stay in here, but every 26 days they make longer, longer, longer. Some people live here for three years, and they can't take any job because they have old—older people, they have like 16, 17 years; they can't find a job and no one help them to find better place to live in. So it's complete mess. They just live there; they can't do anything. Just they make just a camp like in forest, and let's all live there and… But how do you leave? You said one year, you left. How did you leave? I've—at first I find a job. I started course. I ended at A2 level and find a job, work for six months, and I'm renting a room from families. Oh, so you did it all by yourself? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I—I lost previous job because they don't give me um, all um, supplies to cleaning. I was cleaner, and it's very horrible for you. You said you—you learned German A2 level, right? Uh, now, now I am a B1. Okay. But without German, you think you can't find a job here? I can't go into my job. I am CNC operator in Ukraine. I'm working with hard metals, and here I can't improving all my abilities. Before I passed a B2 German, I have a problem with brain. I was military. I was okay. I was in coma one month. Wow. It's some—Wow. But anyway, you—you find your feet here in Germany. I think that's really amazing. I think that's—Yeah, yeah. Cuz people usually say that refugees come to Germany, they don't do anything; they take money from the government, but it seems like—Yeah, it's a lot—a lot of people, and I know a lot of people who work for dark side and taking money from the government, and they still living here. Yeah. I think that's quite nice. I think there's like good and bad, I guess. But yeah, you're someone who's definitely like learned the language, find a job. Yeah, I mean, yeah, good on you. Try, but I think it will be very hard to pass… Shri… last time I—I write half from English, half for… Well, maybe got some German fans can teach him German. I'm sure people will help you learn German. Do you want—do you want to give me your email? Do you have an email? Give me your email. I'm sure someone will teach you German.
I spent some time speaking with people outside the airport, all of whom were from Ukraine. No one really had a good word to say about it. The most shocking part was that they could be living here for over a year. The main reason for this is a massive backlog preventing people from starting integration courses. So lots of different stories in this refugee center; it's why this is the biggest one within Europe. Some of the workers actually told me it's near 8,000 people probably living here now. It's not just Ukrainians though; people from the Middle East, Afghanistan. One of the first guys told us, you know, you get some good ones, but you also get some bad ones. So a real mix. There's like 20 people sharing a hut. We drove past some of the huts that we didn't really get to go inside of them. You know, illness and disease can spread in those places, so I guess that's more tax money spent on healthcare. So there's this argument, you know, if Germany really is full and Europe is full, should we be helping all these refugees? I mean, should there be a limit, or can you really accommodate all these people? But I thought I'd just come here, guys, show you what's happening at the Tegel airport. I want to actually go in and show you what it's like. Didn't we get to do that, but at least we got to hear some stories. But this was Tegel airport, and this was Germany. I'll see you for the next one.
First day in Berlin, and we already found some scammers. It's a scam, scammers. Yeah, look at you guys. Terrible [Music]. What is this? You speak English? Okay. The national for disabled? Okay. You're deaf? Ah, no. Okay. I write here. Okay. I put on me… Where are you from? Me, Berlin. Berlin. Okay. And what? Signature city? Ah, signature okay, city. Okay. Where are you from? How much? Okay. Donation is not donation. Oh, you want money? Why you want money? It's for operation? Is there—Ah, I thought I just write it. I have no money. Excuse me. It's about the signature, Indonesian. Oh, can you read my name? Says S C A M M E R. I have no money. I have—I have—I have no money. Ah, okay. Okay. I—I—I can write for you. I have a pen. Okay. I donate uh, zero. No, it's okay. It's okay. Scammer. We have a scammer. Scammer. It's not real. It's all fake. But even if they are scammers, it's a scam. It's a scam. Scammers. We have some scammers here, guys. Check them out.