area has been ordered to weeks of intense fighting in the area since turkey launched an offensive to clear it of syrian kurdish forces known as the y.p. g. turkey says the white b.g. is a terrorist group they've been protests in kenya after the government arrested a second blow involved in tuesday's mock inauguration of opposition leader ryan loading the protesters clashed with police in the capital nairobi where lawyer megumi guna was taken from his home in a dorm raid on friday the gunas stood beside him when he proclaimed himself the people's president to protest last year's election three private t.v. stations that planned to broadcast the event remain off air despite a court ruling allowing them to resume operations. and a un report has accused north korea of earning nearly two hundred million dollars last year by exporting banned commodities young is accused of supplying weapons to syria and meanwhile exporting coal to a number of asian countries and of getting help to set up front businesses and bank accounts under un sanctions north korea is forbidden to export coal i am led

textiles or seafood the sanctions are designed to limit funding for its nuclear program but there's the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after risking it all station thanks so much about that. news has never the new i think but the message is a simplistic and misinformation is rife the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera. at seven in the morning on the river that forms the border between what's amala in 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 tons of blind eye for a few dollars the greenback is the illegals a 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 at a jaga 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. of the axles between the cars. that can be as many as one thousand hitching a ride. 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 if they got the.

kind of a good. week 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 to 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 got us the growth they. did this is the you know at the height of it john lived on

a suit and the length of. time it acts as the group's leader master inventor also agreed to make the trip but that nervous. and we do it up like a comment on their own but at the. visit. him in two thousand miles from that final destination. as soon as he reaches the station time a has to find the right train. there are no indicate a little or nothing to say where the trains are heading for the border 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. if somebody. please

. illegals once are lucky they get up on letting. it out. of anybody. time in this group will only move on a one time before they leave they rest in this little hotel across from the tracks . 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.

may have decided to make the journey with a salvadorians from the next room they are now seven of the more the better 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. for me. to think it will look like a nice life you know almost you know for the most economical. that you could. say. it's almost the ripple of the going up what is like emotional bias is going to come you know but i look good it will not only i didn't think it but it was god will not

tell us if they put a light aid when i'm with but it's. now that they have a car has to protect it. as any weapon a machete. all along the journey gangs might take advantage of the migrants and rob the many women are raped. time is worried in his group there are four women. the beast is 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 wait for the next train.

up an hour later they're on board another trite as my room a friend calls just to tidy passageway twenty feet square. hard to sleep the noise is deafening.

i mean first crossed the u.s. border illegally when he was young that was with his parents 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 the 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 taken her to texas to offer her a better life. in .

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. he tell it on the phone from. us on the go to nothing in the post. at the point of. also upon that will support it. so it's all a good game in america i don't separate my students you know and i was that a. knock on them you know put towards showing you almost all of them almost ten minutes of game a more you almost mystic i mean with putting this heat up on for a quarter. you know it's time to step up and look at the top class.

the next morning finds harmony in the shunting yards and already. he's on his own under a freight car away from the other migrants and morale is not high. its mission don't focus to saddle the book with or feel that all talk about it must feel one hundred ninety almost the taliban are brigade yes the muslim bustle and aren't they just into going to the mosque now they're not do not up at all no but i must almost deal is this the most open to the you that allow me. to stay on the side i don't

just out this year my last column be such a national discourse on the ceiling of the laws cannot put them on the hot and damp again as we believe they can also have in mind as shown in the chideya as one of them we get system which i mean us your home which a police shia. at this yom you let this you list i see. that tension is to say 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 fifteen dollars for the whole group.

i'm in his group still twelve hundred miles from the american border. but now they'll be continuing but journey by road. it's a photo of them less checks. on the bus heading towards the united states border i'm am a traveling as a couple. that threaten meska sits three rows in front so as not to draw attention . to that now being taken bus off the bus before days. and then 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 sorto lamarre no less than two hundred miles. from 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 cars. they're going to spend the night in the steeple hotel. they say hey stranger you know. our uniform thing on the cement that's around the world full of blood but the most element because i'll be looking at the mustard to show that but i'm

a little new my on the wia coming ok i understand out of me a shot put it on me though and it's one. with the first. is to the first and most a short of the camino a not to move the youngest which will confront the pedal . to the ok there's still more to this issue if you. get it. but this is not really some put a cut scene on the community. and yet the next day jaime makes his first mistake since he left salvatore. he gets off the boss of the wrong stop he doesn't move up the border is still one hundred miles away they are lost and very exposed. as a whole look at the us s. but. they're not how did the battle.

broke the complete count on all of that i don't override the galleon that you that leonore. almost everyone's of course and then the money. i read on the limousine was already. in the eighty's and want them. to move on. 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. being content bill 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 that too tired 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 some of the nominee come on

a sandwich at the jump don't get sad i don't want somebody. to do nicky concern or i will confront. one of. them with it all so innocently when i come on family. time it is sickening. i mean. just when you think to get away or more i don't. look 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 i'm not. at home get. help. because i was. lost on. this. child that she. doesn't stop because i.

can't. i can give them. sick.

many day. when they will eat. even think. they see what's going on they believe. i'm a foot high make them look i'm afraid yeah those who missed it last time you just don't want to hear. yes thank. you. yes then we've. done it then you know you're not in the community i'm not a couple but they're not in the stuff because someone. it's nice and

oh they used some of you. get me to show my yeah the most. telling. them that if i don't. want. any i don't really know. for the nomadic jack our tribe survival is about reaching their destination if we don't hurry we'll never be able to get the temp up in the storm we follow the mongolian herdsmen on a treacherous migration. is dangerous to the ice and then as they strive to preserve their traditional way of life in the interim sometimes luser cattle there with cold water because of the storm risking it all mongolia at this time on

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