Refugee crisis: the story behind the iconic image

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The photograph of their arrival became one of the defining images of this year’s migrant crisis - they have now settled in Germany. Laith al-Amiri and his family are now safely in Germany, where they've been offered asylum. But the flight from their war ravaged country almost cost them their lives. It was a journey which ended in the scramble onto a Greek island beach, captured in one startling image taken by Daniel Etter which - in a single frame - illuminates the story of those hundreds of thousands of refugees. Our Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman reports. Subscribe for more like this, every day: http://bit.ly/1epe41j Dangerous world: http://bit.ly/1JCsSYb The news explained: http://bit.ly/1epgay4 Music: http://bit.ly/1RVTRNy Technology: http://bit.ly/1LI1K9y Like us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1wQ1Gty Follow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1mFUjBD

Published 2015-10-26 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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