Jordan, a nation that has done more for refugees than most: How do they live?

By Dahr Jamail and Karen Dumas; CNN

(CNN) – The Jordan government has pledged aid to Syrian refugees fleeing the country’s war since 2012, at times pouring hundreds of millions of dollars in aid into a country struggling against the effects of the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II.

Meanwhile, King Abdullah, having led protests over corruption in the 1970s and even arranging for protesters to be shot at, the city residents are again publicly calling for him to step down after four decades in power.

CNN finds out more about how the Jordanian king and his family and entourage live despite the aid that he himself leads to a nation struggling with the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II.

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