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the most dangerous job in the world

 

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I have witnessed many impressive things.

 

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And they always end

in indescribable tragedy.

 

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Words can't describe it.

 

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East Aleppo, earlier this year.

 

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Rescue workers,

among them 27-year-old Muhammad...

 

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...are drilling their way through the debris

of a bombed block of flats.

 

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They heard a scream for help

so there's no time to lose.

 

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Mama!

- Hurry! Come on!

 

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Please hurry.

 

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Powerless, the girl’s father watches on.

 

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Remove that stone.

 

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This five-year-old lost her entire family

in a bomb attack, except her father.

 

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Her mother was killed,

just like her two younger sisters.

 

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Hurry! Quick!

 

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The girl is on her own now.

 

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Thank God, we have her.

 

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I will never forget that girl's fate.

 

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It moves me profoundly.

 

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God, please help us.

 

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The bread looks good.

 

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This is one of the White Helmets’ aid stations.

 

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The city is still closed off.

 

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A Syrian camera man films the volunteers

for us.

 

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Do we have any sugar left?

- No, it's all gone.

 

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There is no more sugar.

We ran out three days ago.

 

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One of the volunteers is Muhammad Ali.

 

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Before the war he was a builder,

now he leads a rescue unit.

 

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A cease-fire has been called but

Muhammad is afraid it won't last long.

 

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Cease-fires have been called

many times.

 

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The government uses them

to rest their troops.

 

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And then they attack again,

with full force.

 

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Walk back with the rope.

 

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Pull the rope tight.

- Go, guys.

 

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Muhammad and his crew use the ceasefire...

 

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...to practice for the moment

they are called to duty.

 

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Do you see what I do?

Secure yourself well.

 

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Understand?

 

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Led by instructor Shahawi Hussein

the men are trained.

 

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Yet it seems impossible

to recreate Aleppo's bleak reality.

 

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Is there anyone up there?

- I have no idea.

 

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We've taken the survivors outside.

 

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We can't go in,

there's too much smoke.

 

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While the White Helmets in Aleppo

desperately try to help the victims...

 

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...the gruesome statistics are updated in

Istanbul, 1000 km from Aleppo.

 

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This is Mayday Rescue...

 

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...an aid organisation that leads the

operations from the relative safety of Turkey.

 

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British director James Le Mesurier...

 

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...says 3,000 White Helmets are operating

in Syria. They are all volunteers.

 

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The situation in Syria is so dangerous...

 

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...that other aid organisations

cannot or dare not work there.

 

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This year, the White Helmets were

nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize...

 

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...but there are concerns

that they have been siding with the rebels.

 

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It's Sunday morning. Thanks to the cease-

fire, rescuer Muhammad has a day off.

 

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It's quiet now, but recently this rescue

station was targeted by bombers...

 

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...using deadly and indiscriminate cluster bombs.

 

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This is from the cluster bomb,

but it didn't explode.

 

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We will get rid of this

so that no-one gets hurt.

 

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This is what the cluster bomb did

in just a few seconds.

 

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Look at that.

 

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We had gone inside

right before the bomb fell.

 

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If we hadn't, we had all been killed.

 

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The whole car is riddled.

 

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People are outraged after the bombing

of an aid convoy near Aleppo.

 

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God is great.

 

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The Russian and Syrian helicopters

targeted these trucks...

 

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...full of humanitarian aid.

 

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Medicines and mattresses

for the Syrian Red Crescent.

 

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The White Helmets not only try to help

bombing victims.

 

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They consider it their task

to gather evidence.

 

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They research the convoy attack

with film footage and still images.

 

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The risks are great, but we'll keep

on doing this, for our people.

 

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James Le Mesurier contacts

the East Aleppo White Helmets every day.

 

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Hello, how are you?

 

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The city has been surrounded

for months.

 

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How long can the people

and the rescue workers keep going?

 

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This was a garage.

Lots of people were killed here.

 

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Muhammad drives us through Aleppo.

 

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He wants to show us how the White

Helmet headquarters were bombed.

 

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Do you see the children?

 

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For five year olds...

 

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...their whole life

has been nothing but war.

 

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This was our centre.

 

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In the morning we heard the planes.

 

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I looked up and saw yellow smoke.

I thought: this is the end for us.

 

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And they dropped a barrel bomb

on top of us.

 

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There was a wall

and there was the warehouse.

 

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The barrel bomb fell here.

Look how close it is to the warehouse.

 

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Rescue workers

attacked by barrel bombs.

 

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This epitomizes the insanity in Syria.

But still, Muhammad wants to stay.

 

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I have beautiful memories

of my childhood years.

 

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I still think of my friends back then.

 

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I was raised here.

I refuse to flee, even if it kills me.

 

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