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Saturday, 13 February 2016

ACTOR GEORGE CLOONEY SAYS THE U.S IS NOT TAKING IN ENOUGH REFUGES

He spoke to Sky at the premiere of Hail, Caesar! at the Berlin film festival on Thursday, before meeting Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, to discuss what more can be done by both the US and Hollywood.
"The US needs to do more as we know, taking 10,000 refugees a year is not enough, that's clear," he said.
Clooney, and his wife Amal, met Ms Merkel on Friday morning where their discussions focused on "refugee policies and their involvement in the" aid group International Rescue Committee.
Former British foreign secretary David Miliband, who now heads the IRC, said afterwards that they had discussed what countries around the world could do to solve "what is a global problem, not just a Syrian problem or a German issue".
America has committed to accepting 10,000 Syrians this year and 85,000 refugees in total.

George Clooney and his wife Amal
Clooney was at the Berlin festival with wife Amal

Refugees play a central role on and off screen at this year's festival, in a city which has seen 80,000 refugees arrive in the last year and more than a million in Germany as a whole.
When the festival was set up in 1951 there were millions of refugees and displaced people across Europe, and so from the beginning its aim was to contribute to a better understanding between nations and cultures.
George Clooney
Video: Clooney On Refugee Crisis

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