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north korea with the situation made worse by international sanctions ots it from the team here in london more news coming up from doha in twenty five minutes stay with us. head of the september twenty fourth national election survey showed a satisfied with the state of their economy this is easily a study as biggest tech success story the company was bought by microsoft in two thousand and eleven we bring you the stories that is shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. at seven in the morning on the river that forms the border between mexico these men

and women come from salvador honduras nicaragua they're crossing the river into mexico illegally but have another destination in mind the united states every year more than a million people flee the poverty of their own countries and try their luck on this road to what some call the impossible dream on the mexican side the military tones a blind eye for a few dollars the greenback is the illegal passport. to reach the border with texas they have to cross the whole of mexico a journey of two and a half thousand miles and a journey which for most heading north begins at the railroad station. the only means of transport for the illegal freight trains every day thousands take the moving trains by storm. regardless of the

danger each one tries to find himself a little spot on the roofs. on the axles between the cars. that can be as many as one for. thousand to hitch a ride. on. a ride to the can turn into a trap. because in order to round up the maximum number of illegal immigrants the police stop the train in the middle of the countryside. out here there's no way to run back and take back i think that's. what i think about. kind of again.

today it's a big hole three hundred are arrested three hundred illegals who have crossed just a few hundred miles of mexican territory. it's the end of a journey they'll be deported to their countries of origin. only forty percent of those who attempt exile reach the united states border. these four young people are from el salvador they've been walking along the tracks for today's. climate is thirty he's persuaded lupita who's nineteen to try for the american dream. look at the woods so you got us the growth stage. this is the you got the heidi it's adelaide and the suits

and the length of. time it acts as the group's leader nestor envelop also agreed to make the trip but that nervous. and we do it all for compliment of airing . but at the. they visit. him in two thousand miles from that final destination. as soon as he reaches the station i'm a has to find the right train. you know there are no indicate a little or nothing to say where the trains are heading for itself. time is fear is going the wrong way towards the guatemalan border many illegals have already made that mistake. when they try to climb aboard the moving trains. migrants are taking a big risk. and. legal

. illegals once are lucky. letting. it out. and many like. time in this group will only move on a one time before they leave they rest in this little hotel across from the tracks . that once people get in the next room there are other salvadorians who like them have done two hundred miles on foot to get this far. it's dog and like ghosts the illegals invade the tracks.

on high may have decided to make the journey with the salvadorians from the next room there are now seven of the more the better for facing the rigors of the crossing of mexico. the train is already full to bursting but have to find a place before it leaves. and then a stroke of luck at the back of the train a freight car has been left open. to me. to think it will look like a nice life you know almost you know for the most economical. but because i. just want to see republican up what if i can also be as are going to come you know but i look good in new orleans well not only i didn't look at them as cattle not

jealous if they put it on when i'm with but it's. now that they have a car has to protect it. as any weapon a machete. along the journey gangs might take advantage of the migrants and rob them many women are raped. time is worried in his group there are four women. the beast as the migrants call the train gets on the way. and i'm in his group i've walked hundreds of miles to get aboard this train. but the hardest part is still to come they have another two thousand miles to cover to the american border and there are many hazards on the way. changing trains several times feeding themselves finding lodgings and above all of the police

patrols. the first ride in icy cold will last eight hours. early morning at the train stops in a shunting yard. were exhausted by the journey highway and his group was my white the next train.

up an hour later they're on board another trite as my room frank it's just a tiny passageway twenty feet square. the top to sleep the noise is deafening.

i mean first crossed the u.s. border illegally when he was young that was with his parents and they settled in los angeles where they lived for fifteen years. i mean even got a green card. but things turned out badly he was a member of a gang fell foul of the law and was finally deep water. back in salvador meeting lupita transformed him. and it's a form of redemption he's taking her to texas to offer her a better life. than. the

group moves from train to train with little or no sleep. i miss spotted a train that's leaving. lupita is exhausted she was hoping to rest for a few hours. but jaime is anxious the station doesn't look safe that too many illegals crowding around the freight costs.

come us a little could. of. this on the go to in the. in the post yeah. at the point of. also upon that of the supported it. so it's all a good game in america and i don't see it but all my students you know who i was that a. knock on them you know put your joints almost all of them almost turned it on it's a good moment you almost mystic i mean let's put in this is you've got button for on the court ok you know it's time to step up and look at what i'm coming up with us.

please. the next morning finds harmony in the shunting yards and already. he's on his hip hop or a freight car away from the other migrants and morale is not high. its mission was to saddle the book with a feel but all the talk about it must feel less of a mandate almost a telegram this brigade yes the muslim bustle and aren't they just into going to mosques and other not do not up at all over almost almost all the old is this the most open to the you that allow me. to stay on the site i don't just how this year

my class kolob be such a national day of most promising healing up the wounds again i'll put them behind damp again as we believe they can also how to meet us shown in the chideya as one of them we get system which i mean us your home which a police shia. at this yom get at this your list i see. the tension is to see that i'm going. to resolve a station seems quiet. but what jaimie doesn't are is that a large number of police are patrolling close by. suddenly in the distance he sees the police heading straight towards the. to continue their journey jaime had only one solution pay

a bribe of fifteen dollars for the whole group. just.

i'm in his group still twelve hundred miles from the american border. but now they'll be continuing that journey by road. it's a phone and then less checks. in the bus heading towards the united states border i'm am traveling as a couple. best sits three rows in front so as not to draw attention. to that now being taken bus off the bus before days. and the finally getting

closer to the united states the border is about four hundred miles away. but in this region there are more and more police patrols just. said. they reach so it's all a marina less than two hundred miles. it's on the border. they have almost reached their goal but i'm a decides to stop. for four days and four nights they've been watching police patrols. license plates car. they're going to spend the night in the steeple hotel. they say hey bring. our uniform thing on his bus and that's around the world full of joy but the most element because i'll be looking at them with this issue on the bottom

a little near my on the wia coming ok i couldn't attend a school about alarming us i'll put it on a meal when it's one. with the first. steve first and most a shorter to come in and not to lose the youngest which will confront up it all. to the ok it's still an order this is your view. but this is not really simple to the team on the community. and yet the next day jaime makes his first mistake since he left salvador. he gets off the bus of the wrong stop he doesn't know that the border is still one hundred miles away they are lost and very exposed. yes go look at the us as. long. as you get. there

not how did the battle. but. as a rule broke to complicate our long long is that i don't want to ride the galley let you that leonore. almost everyone's of course and then the money. i read on one of the miners it was already. in the eighty's a month a month. but i believe. it's time at night or walking sixteen miles they finally come to a bus stop. on the. one hour later and finally there's a bus. that will take them as far as matamoros the border town with the united states. and.

they've arrived it's been twenty four days since they left salvador and they've traveled nearly two and a half thousand miles. mission. can think will but again those things you know i will call me that he pulls the most aqim from commune would to me is there saddle but i mean. i am a has decided not to cross the rio grande tonight the river that forms the border the two tide the big day is for tomorrow. they're exhausted but happy to be at the border in a few hours they will try to cross the river. but once again it's every man for himself and thought of putting just almost unlimited time or about like

a sandwich at the jump don't get sad i don't want somebody. to negate concern or i will be frothing work i.e. one of. them would also innocently want to come on family. time it is akin to you i mean me i mean. i just feel that together we are more. ok in the house i don't i don't. it's three o'clock in the morning on the banks of the rio grande.

the lights opposite of brownsville in texas. america is right in front of them they still have to swim across the river and lupita nestore a petrified. best guess. as to why it's not that they. can't just stop by after. i took. it. all. because i was. lost on. this. child that she. doesn't stop because i.

can't. look into them. sick.

many day. when they. eat. even. if she's. only believe. i'm a computer i'm afraid. less it less time you just don't want to hear. yes thank. you. yes than we've been. doing as much as you know. i'm not a couple but they're not in the stuff because someone. it's nice and you

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