Original subtitles

(gravel crunching)

(seagulls squawking) (quiet music)

- [Kais] I left Tunisia because of my son,

his name is Marcel.

He's always asking me, "Where are ya?

"Why he doesn't come for me."

You know, it's like something missing.

- They met with a bunch of migrants in Calais.

They said, "They could all come to Britain."

The only people that never stand up for

are the British people and hard working taxpayer.

- My name is Kais, I come from Tunisia, I'm 30 years old.

I'm here in The Jungle trying to go through to U.K.

From three days I've been here, you see,

it's so hard for us because we don't have the resources.

We come from far away.

- All right, so we're recording sound here on the radios,

on the big camera.

- [Kais] My son in U.K, my ex-girlfriend,

she's living in the U.K. from about five years or six years.

- And you have a son with her? - Yeah.

His name is Marcel.

I want to be near my son.

I want to help her and help my son to grow up between us.

Maybe not in the same house, but between us.

And will try to make my life once again.

Make family, you know when I see his picture, I'm happy.

When I hear his voice that makes me really happy.

(thunder rumbling) (rain spattering)

(quiet music)

Because of my son, because even when

I'm in France I'm near him.

When I was in Tunisia, I was working.

I play computers, I'm a mathematician something like this.

We will make it like a safe place for our tent

because it's raining all the time.

My mother, my father they're in Tunisia.

I got two brothers, one smaller than me.

It's a plastic bag to protect us from rain.

We will try to take some wood from trees

and we will build some protection.

- [Richard] You might be staying here for longer than,

- I wouldtry for maximum one month,

it's my fourth, four days four now.

If not I will give myself to police and they will deport me.

(serious music)

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

I have good idea.

- [Richard] So is this going to be your new home?

- Yeah with Pavel from Poland, with Bassem from Egypt.

- We're very happy now because don't water go inside.

- No water goes inside. (birds chirping)

Pavel he don't this place no, 'cause dirty.

We Don't have the tools to make it.

(birds chirping)

It's good to bring it down, yeah.

We can use it to make fire.

No, no, this, this.

Good, good, good, good, great job guy.

Nice, sweet.

- I'm strong man.

- Yesterday they was giving fish and sushi out of date.

They don't give us oil, sell sugar and all this stuff.

So we have to ask for the money and to buy it.

- [Richard] Where do you get the money from?

- From people, they want to help us

which they see our situations and they feel them, yeah.

I love this people wish to help us, I love them.

(serious music)

- [Richard] Can you tell me a little bit about three idiots?

(upbeat folk music)

- Jungle cigarettes, one of the famous

in the Jungle normally, you know.

We fill it by our own hands.

Then we sell on one Euro I think this is good.

These are the hair colors.

Who people likes to buy these,

the African Eritrean girls, they love to buy these blondes

and browns, and different shades colors.

Specifically bring from the market for those girls.

Here from Pakistan all of us.

We had objective before we will come to Europe.

After Europe when we came here finally,

we meet in the Jungle.

- [Richard] Can you tell me a little bit, Awesome,

about why you wanted to leave Pakistan?

- [Richard] Why were you compelled to leave?

(serious music)

- Both his feet are burnt for war, happens to you.

- There was a bomb from the airplane.

So they hit the home, and the whole home is burned.

- He's my cousin and one year we are in this journey.

- [Richard] Always you two traveled together

for one year? - One year.

- All this way? - A lot of distance

we come by walking, by these two feet.

Me and this foot.

- Back at home you had been imprisoned and tortured?

- Yeah, of course, yeah, many times, yeah.

They use everything, stick, also electricity,

use electricity.

There's no law. - What would happen

to you if you stayed in Sudan?

- I'm not sure about my life.

Maybe I lost my life every day, you know?

(serious music)

A lot of things I didn't accept and I see them here

(serious music)

(arguing in foreign language)

- They took my food my wood

and they asked me to leave, if not they will kill me.

So I'm in danger. - They said that?

They threatened you? - Yeah, yeah.

(dramatic music)

This one for bad guys, this one for the good guys.

- [Richard] Is it a bit dangerous in the Jungle?

- Yeah it's dangerous, almost when you have something

to protect yourself, is better.

No matter what you have, but it's better to have something.

Pool, my pool.

With civilization you know you have the law.

We can't find that in the Jungle, someone lives.

That's why I think, that's why they call jungle here.

Because people, they have to be like animals to survive.

(ship horn blasting)

(sea gulls squawking)

(children yelling happily)

Yeah it feels good.

At least there is no problems.

There is a law here so I'm safe.

- [Richard] There's no law in the Jungle?

- There's no law in the Jungle.

- Really? - Yeah.

Two different words in the same land.

Amazing, I can see no more people.

Kids playing, I remember my normal life also.

Makes me wonder when it will be,

when I will come back like normal people.

Having home, work, family, love almost.

- [Richard] So over that water is your son, right?

- [Kais] Yeah.

It's like something you can see and you can't touch it.

- [Richard] You can see but you can touch it.

- Yeah. (ship horn blasting)

(quiet music)

- They think that they will be millionaires,

billionaires and this stuff, you know.

But for us, it's to make better life.

It's not to be rich, it's to be happy.

- I like fish and chips.

- I can go to Germany but I can't speak German language.

- [Richard] You want to go to Wales

to set a restaurant up? - Yeah, yeah.

- If it's, I'm fucking swimming to England, I don't care.

(fire crackling)

- [Richard] So Kais, are you going to try to get to England?

- Yeah, because my needs. - Your son you mean?

- Yeah. - The big reason,

the main reason. (dramatic music)

(cars rumbling)

- There is no police. - There's no police?

- [Kais] So some of the drivers they tell.

- [Richard] The drivers can see when you climb in,

to the truck? - Yeah.

(dramatic music)

- [Richard] Okay I'm going, he's my friend, he's friend.

- [Richard] There's no face, please.

There's no faces, okay, okay, I'll go, I'll go.

This is start and stop.

You can see here the numbers are going up,

seven, eight, nine, the numbers must be going up.

Are you ready? - Yeah.

- [Richard] Okay. (dramatic music)

(dog barking)

- The dog find about us. - Oh the search dog?

The guys who saw me so me filming what happened?

- Yeah, the guy which was talking to you he was smuggler.

That's why they don't want to show their faces.

And some of them, they are they're

taking things from the truck.

All the time they are stealing.

- [Richard] How many times have you

tried to get on board a train?

- [Richard] How did they die?

- I tried a lot of time but I always fall down.

So I have problem in my leg right now.

Look here, you know the iron that was put inside here

and here, I think it's a two month ago.

(dramatic music)

- We gotta go see how people doing near train.

- [Richard] So you're gonna try again

to get to England tonight? - Yeah sure.

- [Richard] We're heading for the Channel Tunnel,

at the tunnel the train station.

- [Kais] We go to the same.

The way it's about three hours walking.

Everybody started here from the walking,

jumping, yeah it's dangerous.

(dramatic music)

(dramatic music)

- [Richard] What are all the people doing here?

(sirens wailing)

(dramatic music)

- [Richard] I have a car, I'm English guys,

you speak English?

- [Officer] I speak English come with us.

- [Richard] I'm a journalist I'm committed to it's my job .

- [Richard] From who?

- No you don't, I'm a journalist.

It's my job, you do your job, I'm doing my job.

(horn honking)

So I just got grabbed by the cops

who wanted to delete some footage,

but they couldn't find the footage

so they didn't delete anything.

So we're walking back now, we've lost Kais.

You stay here for one week, you stayed just there

in the wood in between the roads?

- [Richard] You slept with no tent or?

- [Richard] Where?

- [Richard] Well you can't get a train

to Canada from here, you know that?

(serious music)

(dramatic music)

(sea gulls squawking) (waves lapping)

- It's about four months since I didn't call them.

I didn't have the phone.

So she's asking about me.

Hello, no nothing I'm asking about my son?

What's wrong with you?

Why are you asking me why

from where I got the number?

It's the English number and it's easy to--

No I'm not in the U.K., not yet.

Not here to disturbing you or make you feel bad you know.

I call you tomorrow, have fun, anyway have fun.

See how they are girls.

She's asking from where I got the English number.

So, so she thinks that I'm there.

And she's a little bit afraid

or something like this, you know?

If she's happy with someone else what's the problem?

I know, I know how they think really.

(sea gulls squawking)

- [Richard] When did you last see you son now?

- One year, seven months ago.

I want to share his life.

- [Richard] Do you feel like you're are missing that?

You're not seeing him growing up?

- Yeah. (sniffling)

Also, makes me think about what I'm doing here.

(serious music)

I'm helpful, I'm not helpful.

Makes me feel what was next was, what should I do?

I give him part of me and because he's a part of me,

I miss them, I miss the love.

I want to hug them.

Even if she doesn't want me back.

I want my son, almost my life.

- [Richard] Does he know where you are?

- You've got a good view. - Yeah.

- It's always dry up here. - Yeah.

- [Richard] How many people live in this tent?

- Nine, nine people. (wind whining)

- So you think that today they open the shops?

- Yes, we got one depot with the yellow wood.

- I will talk to Fay and ask her if she will do it.

Now I'm volunteer,

So later I will call you.

It's not a job, it is like helping people.

Everybody who comes to help people

is doing that job

- You're helping lots. - You're helping a lot.

- Thank you. - Thank you.

I feel that my life even though it's changing,

so here was a big load of water.

It's dirty like you see,

we make the hole there and it's going,

the water is gone.

And they will make it with cement.

- Okay. - Yeah.

And then I will use the water to make shower.

If I'm not doing anything,

I'm sad, like I'm not living.

- [Richard] You're going to stay here

a bit longer then, is that what you're thinking?

- Yes, a bit longer, yes.

Yes, yeah, it's more difficult to get to the U.K.

If I was here one year ago I would make it.

- It was easier then? - Yeah.

(whistles tweeting) (people chanting)

- Must, must work, not losing the time.

Using time to do something.

(people chanting)

- I will think that to collect some blackberries

and put them there to sell, you know,

for one Euro a pack. (laughing)

- [Richard] And he's taking painkillers,

you said? - Yeah, yes.

- [Richard] Are you happy?

- [Richard] And you think the answer is to come to England?

- [Kais] It's too dirty here, too dirty.

- [Richard] Kais want to stay here you mean?

- [Bassem] Yeah, yeah.

- [Richard] You don't want to stay here you said?

- They are building coffee shop.

They're building bars, they've building discotheque here.

(rhythmic music)

There's also church.

(rhythmic clapping)

- [Richard] Do you think it's getting bigger?

- [Kais] We was like 1,500 and now it's about 5,000, almost.

- [Richard] What have we got over here to this side then?

- [Kais] All the families.

Good shelter for the kids.

- [Richard] Did you build the houses here?

- Me with the builders from Belgium from England.

Yeah, many people there call it Jungle,

but for me it's not Jungle.

Its land which we are on it

and making our best to survive.

So anybody can all it to what he wants.

But for me, it's not jungle.

We're not animals, so...

(upbeat music)

(quiet guitar music)

- [Kais] Can I try it?

- It's C, D, A-minor, F.

Then the next time round C, G, A-minor.

(Kais playing guitar)

- You know I will have to learn like that.

And then it goes along.

(guitar lively music)

- He's showing me his hair. (laughing)

There's no these are the cry man.

He's looking handsome man.

Chin up Marcel. (laughing)

Easy, bye, speak to you soon.

- How was that Kais? - Still hard man,

so hard for me. (quiet music)

- When the guest goes

is will give you it. - Okay.

- [Richard] Are you going to move Bassem?

- Yeah, yeah. - You want to move here?

- Yeah. - You're going to leave

your place on the hill?

- Yeah, yeah. - Yeah, really?

You'd rather live here with Kais.

What do you think about that Kais?

- It sounds nice. - Kais what is that for?

- I will put my sons picture there.

- [Bassem] You're a good man Kais Allah.

Very good man Kais. - He is growing

and he is forgetting about me day by day.

- You really think that? - Yes, yes I'm sure,

with his mum and his grandma. - Isn't it hard

being in Jungle where things are so basic?

- You know for me, it's like that I come with nothing.

Look, it's not the big thing but I'm helping people now.

I was needing help.

So now, I'm helping people.

Toys for girls, yeah. (quiet music from toy)

(serious music)

One love for everyone.

We learn to love ourselves from being together.

- [Richard] When you were a kid

did you imagine how it would be to be in these countries?

- What, heaven on earth,

civilization, being free. (waves lapping)

- [Richard] Do you feel free in yourself Kais?

- (laughing) Not really.

(quiet music)

(child happily screeching)

- We are in Dunkirk the second jungle.

People they tend to call it otherwise

but they didn't find any name.

So I call it jungle second one.

- [Woman] This is how they tried to keep warm at night.

So they sleep there.

- Oh no, in the tents? - And baby was there.

No the baby fell into, it rolled into the fire at night.

- Here? - Yes.

This is where it happened.

- [Kais] Where is baby?

- [Richard] So how did it happen Kais?

- They try to get warm

and they have the wood fire, no money.

Adults they know how it is, how dangerous.

But kids, you see, they have fall asleep.

We will check if he have the cream.

We need to buy for them.

I will give you shelter like this,

or I will give you caravan.

- Yes Caravan. - I will give you

caravan in Calais if you want to go to Calais.

But not here, not in the Jungle,

not in this jungle, in the other jungle.

(children squawking)

See ya later.

We tried to put for them big tent for new arrivals.

If not, we have to smuggle small number of tents for today.

(chicken clucking)

- [Richard] Underneath the wood there is something else?

- There is tarpaulin. (laughing)

Smuggling it in, smuggle in everything man,

today we were smuggling in tents.

(quiet music)

Wait! (quiet music)

These guys are Kurdish, they come from Kurdistan,

Iraq, and they don't speak Arabic.

And I found that these guys

they don't want to help anybody else, only the Kurdish.

So they are taking the money to take to get the clothes,

they are taking the money to get food.

They are taken from the money to be there in the camp.

I went to the police many times to talk about it,

and I told them how they work.

So maybe they saw me with the police.

- [Richard] The smugglers saw you with the police?

What did they say to you?

- You have to leave and they brought a knife,

said me if I will be with it again,

that they will stab me or use a gun.

(sea gulls squawking) (quiet music)

It's the first place where I stayed in the Jungle,

so the tent here all around.

Good memories, even the worst situation though,

but it was good memories.

Pavel, Bassem, (laughing) yeah man.

No security, nothing, boom, boom, boom, climbing the tree.

I think this, that one,

- [Richard] What's happened to Bassem?

(quiet music)

- [Richard] What about Pavel, why was he in the Jungle?

I love you man.

- You know, you're not bad either.

It's still a smartphone. - I can use Skype.

- Yeah. - That's amazing,

from England man.

Yep, now back. - When you first came here

you gave yourself four weeks

and then you were gonna hand yourself

into the police or go back to Tunisia.

- Yeah, I was thinking that.

That was everything to do it that way

but I'm not going back.

- [Richard] What has made you decide to stay here?

- Maybe I find myself feeling better.

I'm useful. - And did you

speak to your son? - A little bit,

he wasn't happy. - What did he say?

- "Where are you, you said that you will come.

"You're not coming."

It's big, he makes me feel that I'm not here,

I'm not alive you know.

(serious music)

(ship horn blasting)

(person whistling)

- Hello, how are you doing?

I'm fine thank you, and you?

- We are good together. - We're cool yeah.

- Look at that, Ash, she is brilliant.

- Hi, how are you doing?

- Happy Christmas, hello how are you?

- We was having a meeting in the warehouse

till late at night and I try to walk a girl to youth hostel.

There was the Egyptians attacked us,

they was thinking that we are English

and they want to take our valuables.

So, I tried to stop them and told the girl

that she will come back running to the warehouse

and she made it safely.

And the head, it gets hurt here.

My nose, yeah, my hand.

Go apply for asylum or go find the job.

Go you know, go back to a country

and learn things that are better than stealing

or robbing people, such a shame.

(intense music)

(people yelling) (sirens wailing)

(gun fire) (yelling)

- The road was full of stores,

shops, restaurants, it was full anyway, now it's empty.

All the things which we built and they are not here now.

They destroyed.

They left the church.

They might leave it to show the people

that no we didn't demolish the church.

But there's other church which they destroyed,

There was another mosques,

which there was destroyed also.

Politics, politics. (serious music)

(generator rumbling)

- [Sheri] Come. (serious music)

- [Richard] Does it feel like Europe?

(dramatic music)

- This week it was a big fight

between the Afghanis and Sudanese.

And it starts the place where people that go for

take showers, to take some meal.

It's like who's gonna be served first?

This is the fight. (dramatic music)

The Sudanese, there are few of them,

but they are not same as the Afghans.

But they was fighting, so the Afghanis

took the place and they burnt the tents of the Sudanese.

(wind whistling)

It's getting wild you know, it's the wildlife.

(ominous music)

(upbeat music)

(people cheering) (children laughing)

- [Richard] Things are closing now Kais?

- Yeah all of the shops, I mean most, many of the shops.

Look at that, I think they are taking

the restaurants and the shops to close them.

- Awesome. - Yes bro?

- [Richard] Where's all your food from the shelves?

What happened here?

(police thumping on doors)

- The Idiots well, it was the best restaurant remember?

Yeah, shut. - It's a shock?

- Yeah, the shop was doing good,

but it's finished.

- [Richard] Yeah look at those shelves,

their empty, those shelves were full.

- Full of, yes stuff to sell.

(serious music)

They had the bad eviction that they had that

there's no way to stay longer.

So yeah, they decided to leave.

I mean, they're smart, smart asses.

Yeah, now it's closed, nobody in.

(serious music)

They stopped us like a normal check,

they open the boot and they found a gas mask.

The gas mask is only to protect ourselves from tear gas.

They asked for papers, then they took us

to the police station.

- So it turns out in France that gas mask is illegal, right?

So they throw the book at us.

- [Kais] I lost my freedom.

Lost my freedom man.

(quiet music)

- [Richard] That experience was really grim, really grim.

25 years covering wars.

That is one of the worst experiences

I've ever had with police.

There's piss and shit on the walls, on the floor.

There's one blanket.

But the worst thing of all of this

is that Kais still in there, right?

And we had to walk out of that cell

and leave him there and when I sat there and told him,

put my arm around, and told him that we were leaving

him there, that we have to leave him there

because we're being deported.

You know, he broke down.

(fire crackling)

(quiet music)

So we're going to get our stuff,

see Kais and give him his stuff back

in the detention center and get out of here.

- Really? - Yeah.

- Is it just the feeling of being kinda locked in again or,

- [Richard] What are they saying about.

- [Richard] Why can't they just do it, I mean,

- Why do they have to

lock you up for all this time?

(serious music)

- [Richard] How does it feel to be out?

- I want to have a beer. (laughing)

Really I want to have a beer.

It's like yeah.

No comment, I have no comment Rich.

- [Richard] 25 days in here?

- Yeah 26 days.

They've been the longest days ever.

Nothing worth like freedom.

But really I'm sorry for these guys, you know.

Many, they're innocent and they want only the better life.

They want nothing bad you know.

- [Richard] You mean the people that are inside still?

- Yeah, inside the detention center.

We have to appreciate or tolerate the others.

Wherever the religion or the attitudes,

or you know the goals.

I mean everybody wants to leave happy.

This is our goal, this is what we have to share.

It's not about money.

Politics, religions, worth I know.

I came here to see my son as fast as possible, I couldn't.

I tried my best to be active,

to not stay like watching like others.

I appreciate my experience, teach me a lot.

The ups and downs, they are the best to learn, you know.

I'm really glad to meet you, Rich.

- [Richard] Yeah you too man.

- Yeah, man. (serious music)

- [Donald] Day one, we will begin working

on an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful,

beautiful southern border wall.