the, the c w, this is everything else. it is available to them and it hasn't made up. in some sense, chem and the, the mediterranean was once a major crossroads at the heart of the ancient today it has become a barrier separating europe from africa. is there anything less of a past one share? and what do today's distinct cultures have in common? journalist xena las rog and joe far abdul karim, travel the coast of the mediterranean, in search of answers. you see yourself as a to be in june and responsibilities. how can you

help me to join us to get to know the people and their dreams mediterranean during the high today i'm on the largest island, did the mediterranean sicily that's you'll be able to see quite easily behind me. there are enough to know if i'm wrong about in these pub mine, this is the home of civil kinda come out. and tetanus in the sicily life just be on the coast of to nicea to tanya, the islands, 2nd largest, 6 the dismissal beneath the mountain. the tradition that

a citrus fates has long been grown in this 1st hi all region. let's see if i can help with the went to home the age i find myself with an orange conversation. this made it like a lemon, but it's an orange things i'm going to jump right in because i want to make myself useful and i've got the right food. so the job way too big a little effective, effective around $1500000.00 tons of citrus trade to produce every year on sicily. organic pharma, monterey, d, cloudy, hovers around 100000 kilos of our inches. know just in the province of cataneo, within other preferences as well. what time it was a special about the outlines of here on sicily. let's pretend he thought you with this region, special cheese, the blood orange, inside the fruit,

there was this intense red color that's typical for this region. so for the area around cataneo and close to aetna, tanya, this is because the mountain causes temperatures tend to change quickly. they wanna send the strong difference between day and night, the colors, the orange, and all the. okay. if i stick at 11 to see what all you know to into your file, all your orange us, and what does it mean for the region? we've got a rather special distribution channel and we sell to acquisition group. or in other words, private individuals will join forces. could you develop a relationship with the products they're buying? and these are almost always organic. and our farming methods have been exclusively organic since 1992. my father started then my brother and i carry on the traditional, we really believe it's the future if

i think it's time for me to try, one of these are inches of this i picked myself is to say it smells amazing. it's very g. c and suites. and says it's delicious. but what's about the manageable bits of 5? you wouldn't believe it, but someone who runs this city has come up with a really innovative way to put them to use this problem. good time here is more than just an apple to real way to get to the beach. and in december it can get pretty cold. here. i'm here to meet and the rica arena. company orange fine, but it's based in an old collapse. so in the old town. yeah, hi. nice to meet you. thank you for a price. my pleasure. okay, hold of me about 10 years ago and began to,

connie came up with the idea of combining to iconic italian products, citrus fruit send function. you take the orange and you squeezy, and what you have left is pretty much 50 percent of the original way. so what we thought is a way to thrust for this by products into something meaningful for the fashion industry. and there's a family of materials that are called men made cellulosic fiber and they all contain set of rules as a complement, right? for the semester necessary, some white top, it's everything that is not the water. oh so and then from that we extract the cellphones and then the cellulose that we extract look like these pretty much so it's like paper. yeah, yeah. i touch a slide so yeah, exactly. we saw a lot of things this. i think it's a top or something. yeah. how does it have to be a and we have a scar here as the cops golf. yeah. okay. so it's like it looks very

amazing on new orange fine but has already made a name for itself. it's supplies, especially in companies, across the spectrum, with the seemingly endless supply of rule material on hand. there's still plenty of scope the development. wow. and that's the most casanya you can see from here. and by the way, or you can see people when you walk on a place like this was amazing, you, you get more inspiration than i think it's a fluid for your, your company, your vision. and it's a pleasure to all your clients and holds meeting with other people that also just work. but you're also surrounded by kasanya is a port city in eastern sicily. many residents still depend on fishing for their livelihoods from and because of fest, it's not fall to the portal. i would say the fish small kids, the

the sci fi looks irresistible for us. i find myself drone to something else. to sicilian men thinking. 2 fine job. uh, i know how that screws artichoke, filled with garlic and parsley. okay. you can just eat it like that's good. good. all just the the cathedral square with the blacks. now the rock elephant is the hoss of the city . all the main shopping streets find out from here, the people they are through is also just

a short walk away. they travel. i'm here for a very special meeting with a young man on with the right to bundle on all your i my name is yeah. so no, going to push it got a lot best. yeah. you know, i don't know. maybe you called all week the cool efficient medication maybe arch in with that a mighty parole pool. cool. me fun, really base. she sure. yeah. julian, yeah, be see the roll them on the 2. 0, the 1st thing that i mean you'll see big, clear, good on the okay, there seems to be a lot to talk about here. but what i want to know is who's pulling the strings? i'm going to take a look hello, that is the to thank you for having me. yeah, thank you. who are very talented men, can you tell me more about your work with pop up? so the fortuna,

the golshani. i was fortunate enough to come there and just some wonderful art from my grandparents a seen that'd be cool and ever since i'm a small f in passionate about my art for job. well, my 1st experience on stage was that the money on the person got to move the public warming. the history of the system is pure drama and few contented stories, as well as the daily napoli, atanya his most famous family of public chairs, the ready to be need soon perfect theater in the system. it began around the year 1831 associate. it flourished until the arrival of the cinema television in the 1966, the leak when the exact was the beginning of a crisis that our family survived several 80 bunks to the tenacious. and that's that, that's kind of my grand parents being on the k. no determined not to give way to the looming monstrosity that was television data,

not the least you own it. for generations, local children have grown up plenty about the sicilian mix since the middle ages. they're very familiar with the heroes and heroines that fits you and then let you. oh, we have the children and adults, they come and watch your, your, your show. but on maint downloaded, we have a very broad rapids for without some current engine epics of suit. the shakespearean tragedy associates next week we're presenting a very special text to the moment. the fashions on the appropriate side can truly do anything to be able to. the sicilians maintained a special bones with mamma at now. then it named the tourist active volcano in europe. broken ologist to set paste salon know takes me up the mountain we saw sink, atanya in glittering sunshine, the

3000 meters above sea level. it's a completely different picture the erupt. what can happen to the people in cub, tanya, and what are the 2nd to us on the venture? obviously, the, all the kind of that option, one thing is very, very low off to do that option web. the lama for those can reach the doubts that anyway. since 20. yeah. see, we have a very decent, astonishing gets. but to see about option about the effect is not the saw. strongest of the society. they'll effect these are the dash the full out the day in the town. so rounding guy to the back to that kind of explosive activity. lots few hours that he's quite wednesday up that yes, and i've had enough light. we just asked if the codes go into the car and drive

back down the mountain side. we're headed for the national institute for the physics and so can knology to what's known as the war room. he is scientists keep a close eye on aetna. it's one of the world's most active volcanoes and puts on a sporadic lava display to remind us of that fact the new season. the assignments are lined, you mean, where all the money to an activity of this issue then what kind of sort of just the economics also move kind of strongly. it's also of about, excuse me, captivity in fact, of the cc these months, right? 24 hours, 7 days, and you show me this monitoring thing. but what you see out here we oh, i can and also to them because we'd set it apart. i mean there's, we are taking savings by saving the life behavior of economics from what i saw

had a thing here and the positive side to for the cost. and i've got to pay by day is apply that to you here in sicily, cause it's not my, my, it's not of you. why. if you bought in here. mm hm. when you go open your eyes, the face, the thing searching you spot the list. so we go off. yeah, we, these huge mounting to us out for the rest of the life side. song seeing like, i'm the to me, my, my, i know it's a very cold experience and i'm glad to be heading back to miles and mediterranean, climbed to palermo to be precise. so my next meeting i have to travel across the island from the east to its capital city, the almost 700000 people live in palermo.

for a long time, it was seen as the strong cold of the sicilian mafia until popes of the population started to push back the are too many see behind me on the facade is not building a giovanni fi coordinate and how low both city no. does that include the 2 judges supposed organized crime on this island on page 4? it within 9, i do switch and leading up with this on the in the historic center with palermo, i need to key out of control from the mc mfc and movement deal. so more and more business people are refusing to pay for texting money to the mass. yeah. and they're making those secrets of it that put things because in the shop windows, the people ask us today to it's

about a month. yeah. yeah. what do you think is behind this customization analysis? so put that away. yes, unfortunately, that's true. and it is tiny detrimental to those who are trying to fight against the mafia every day. very often, the nation emanates from stories and smokes and movies. the godfather, for example, events, but there's nothing charming or glamorous about the mafia funding. the mafia is violent and harassment on the response. you know the mafia, you land saw if anybody got ceiling this that when did the association start their work. okay. and the association emerged in 2004, initially by tom. so when a go through university, friends decided they wanted to open a bonus. you also mentioned it up to tom. they said, how are we going to do with the master fuels?

the who come to demand extortion money from us in the store. we prepared to pay the on so was clearly noted and we'll discuss the forgot it. that is supposed to know. do you peeps so means farewell, pete? so or extortion money, seattle would show has been involved with the initiative since the student days. now she works as a tool guide showing to arrest the of the pin number without the mafia. we meet valentino, i shall po now who also refuses to pay the peak. so i saw the official logo by there. and did you ever have problems with the math? you're coming to you on say, hey, go, i think you have to pay for it. no, no, no, no, well, he's never had any problem. having the logo in the store gaz these they pulled off at best bet. so we've never had any issues with some of the blood needs to sort of move in and out of 10. he killed g. the same, but i saw new generations opening and running businesses in sicily today have a different mentality. and that's why they're not paying. unfortunately,

there's no way of knowing how many are actually paying the number's probably going down, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be dropping off god. after all, even if it's no fix, doting, anyone mafia is trying to such it's dominance in other ways. it's remarkable how fun and tina, and many other business people insistently taking a stand against the mafia, tragedies, tacoma daily in the pool to fill em and across the region as a whole. the mediterranean sea is now the world's deadliest the crossing. now steer where no no mist, 1600 people died or went missing, trying to reach your rep from africa. the mattress, palermo, deluca orlando, allows rescue vessels to duck in the city,

in defiance of orders from central government. the. it's no surprise that we're meeting at the mercy, void t a cafe and education project for young refugees the like to know why are you so open and support? see, watch and all the people who help the people in the c, i mass just people facing a human being. i game can be to she watch, including a couple of other kids to the owners and then she pop by there. and then she watch cheap, but there is the platform that she to cause the people in this cannot be less bad. sometimes people talk about migration and problems, but you will have a view of the situation with the migration or even other view because we have the

migrant, the news release impediments. but for you or with the migration, i'm not like the pixies up there. okay, i made a real decision between who was wanting palermo. yeah. well that's really important more. yeah, sorry for you. yeah. but for my, for my, this is not a part of okay, well what do we do when you say you are a blog that way? and then that is, it's very easy. and we are proud to leave in this part of the war and the we believe that booth every year is not. this is a is not the se, dividing the people and the zip codes. and then what is your leaving the confidence as to the people to be able to meet? so when you come in, let them know you'll select on now i'm traveling asked if the president

across the islands to traces of the islands passed in syracuse, the backend on secrets. the syracuse was the largest and wealthiest city in the entire mediterranean region. house a 1000000 people lived here, then almost 4 times as many as today. the day i'm in syracuse and the oldest culture of the town is actually an island and it will teach you based on the ancient greek word for quail. this little corner of the world could use the number of things including home access to and the 1st christian community in your home. 40 just phones, the city's historic center. today, 3 bridges connected with the rest of syracuse head straight to the old town and on the pets documented, they discovered the goddess of hunting, diana protector of syracuse,

in the greek era. right next to the cathedral of santa maria de la colon. the, the monica is about an hour drive from syracuse highlights of this, your netscape, well heritage sites. i mean it's magnificent. pepsi and brooks a creek buildings the, the picturesque town as modica is home to the island of this chocolate factory. the chocolate is made according to ancient aspect method. i'm about to choice of myself . i do feel wondering how aspect cocoa beans got here in the 1st place that sold to do with the spaniards who wants occupied these islands. at the antique dablin and utah, i'm due to meet the head of the family business. francesco, for tasting they've been making chokes and motor cuttings. 18 ac

francisco explains the production price. that's what makes the chokes. that's a special have you have to be a little select. oh, okay. like this one here too. yeah. mm hm. let's put it in the in here. okay. this this, this one here. yeah. this. okay. and here i know someone who's unable to resist. good chokes. that's my colleague, jeff, and he's taking a break from his mediterranean jenny to visit me in sicily. hey, what are you doing here? i wanted to surprise you. good to see you again. i wanted to find out what you've been up to. yeah. yeah, we'll talk about that in a minute. i don't want to interrupt you, but it just looks really interesting. yeah. yeah,

you should try the chokes that. i loved doing that. gross and it seems like it's just homeless. so yeah, let's do business the it breaks the seats as far as the see from the show. we me quote from us our percent with sugar. that is looks like to bring you to the bottom chocolate. yes. you have to ship i see here, you have different savers. you have a solid, you have monday and you have the ginger. you want to try them and yes, why? yes, yes. so we have here the 65 percent, and that will run 65 percent. 65 percent coupon minus the

positive sugar is the eclipse. yes. and this one is with this is the cinema one, the one. because a lot of this. all right, now we make and so good. yeah, it's so good. it's really good. i think it's my favorite of the we've been on the mediterranean journey for 2 years now, interrupted by a global pandemic. and we're not finished yet. time for look back the we've experienced so much with surprise. you then the last, the last actually nothing. because everywhere i've been, i felt just

a little bit at home since the house i've always discovered something that i've been familiar with from america, for example, and sometimes from gemini, i, on that time, what really impressed me was that all those southern regions that are often seen as on the developers, we've discovered an incredible amounts of innovation, and that's being inspiring and encourage you to help us get the what best mission, mice and the vague type. what stayed with me the most is with all the countries we've visited and things are changing. testers during the midst of a searching process and, and on. and i even call it a democratization process dimension. i'm people have an incredible yearning to be seen and to be heard on, on rubbish for long enough to find that kind of stuff that chat, so tension. i hope we can listen to each other more. and the people on all sides achieve the kind of life they're striving for us advice and investigated resistance to the steps. the

the mass tourism is putting a strain on tough to roll and its residents to sedona much went viral. millions of wanted to visit the netscape world heritage side. no, no, cause one to re means a number of sites is a world heritage site in things to south to old fine for the future in 75 minutes on d w the

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