The family of asylum-seekers trapped on Europe’s edge
Across Eastern Europe - from Belarus to the Balkans - people fleeing conflict and poverty are trying to seek asylum in the EU.
Akram and Zahra from Afghanistan want to cross the Bosnian border into the EU with their two-year-old daughter.
They say their next attempt to get from Bosnia into Croatia will be their 40th. BBC correspondent Fergal Keane was with them them as they set out from a makeshift camp.
Filmed and edited by David McIlveen.
Produced by Zeynep Erdim, Orsi Szoboszlay and Paola Lucchesi.
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