trillion government and obama administration those are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera people and power is next i was always telling you how famous he was going to make that's how he presented hello my name and body but out manchester city's northwest representatives kind of. teach it pretty cool. i said you were a member of that we had this special meeting about five a nail and he said you know i'm sure that's not the topic i knew immediately this is a color you know piece on the mainland city yet al-jazeera investigation footholds wall of silence at this time. because found on city streets around the world often ignored sometimes hoped frequently moved on but always hoping for the charity of others so how do different

cultures respond to the pleas out zero correspondent of the phillips went to find. they all the poorest of the poor and you could find them all over the world in the wealthiest parts of the west and in asia's poorest slums i'm on a journey through the developed and developing worlds to see how very different countries cope with those of the bottom of society to be helped them to be ignore them too we simply despise them i come to manila in the philippines and like many

cities in asia it's growing fast but it is a place of stunning contrasts shacks and new rising taleb milks but there is one way in which these two wells rich and poor meet and that is through the most simple economic activity of all banking. in manila nobody is true young today. a small boy learning to survive in a big city. j.c. five years old is looking for his two older brothers he has no idea where he can find a street corner where the traffic slows down fleeting contact between rich and poor a place of opportunity. neal john is the middle brother at seven years old he's a seasoned. news on tell me where do you bank exactly. and do you try and look for certain kinds of cars are they good cars they give more

money or yeah it. is not me it is. not political now i can't say anything nailed down or you just knock on the wind out. the sample. and. i know. if. i know they need me. here. every day off to school the three brothers and their friends beg for money that mother judith watches on the kids come out here take the streets what are you worried about. man now i know the second stop on the last stand and. not one man in an open line of. judith lives nearby in an illegal search so this is home yes how many hours do your

children baker of to scream out on that one means and they still get on us. more the. nine. on that the young set out in an i pad moving up on the vessel i don't know doing this. as somebody. who. might have a nap was heading somewhere in montana. i felt guessing. that i myself one but not an ounce and they mean that. it's on the phone now i'll wait a minute i. may begin not one. month among. at least these children half that mother no matter how tough their lives they have

a home love and support. thousands of children in manila have no powers to care for them they survive in gangs however they can often it's easier to just escape reality. you do know the streets you work they play here the day they do john says she just told them people. have been neglected abused at home and most of them are begging. this is butch he grew up on the streets he lived. a life of crime and becky now in his early fifty's is dedicated to helping these kids are going to one of the streets that you might call the ok i'm going to give you something when i get used to work for an ngo but got fed up with the bureaucracy he feels he can do more good working directly on the streets he hands out clothes medicine and tips for survival but it lying you know that little boy this kid i

think he or any of them on going to be. nice here in the states and. the president is keeping the streets because of friends also. and i think it's all been. you probably going to work up before lunchtime and going to bed with the neighbor. and their. sixteen year old jamie lynn and jose are two of the kids that looks out for their dad. begging is supposedly illegal in the philippines but these two boys like to think of themselves as performers brightening the day of manila's long suffering commuters riding the jeep. and. playing. it in the city. on a good day the two boys might make five dollars between them. and not.

let me make them. never found them in the town believe boss and that's not the number. it was in the monday game at this one up by nothing in the sun. they ride the cheap these across the city and yet there are parts of manila that will always be out of bounds today need live and jose. is this the real man. absolutely not i think this space near the stock exchange really represents the kind of inequality present in manila. the relationship between rich and poor real in the philippines we were here on a weeknight for example you'll see a lot of millennial is here working around financial centers with purchasing power able to get a starbucks coffee right there but then you move a few kilometers away from here then you can really see kids begging who probably don't even have

a shot at finishing high school with. families who have their own social bonds and especially when you think about the kind of life they have industry it's not just about purity bagging a lot of these children live off the streets and they contribute to the epicenter of an urban society like many other kids watch for your car and make sure no one robs your tired so in a way there's this symbiotic relationship between urban dwellers and street children. this relationship can usually be seen here probably not of manila bay it's a popular tourist spot so an ideal place to bake except that something has changed here in the past few days it's strangely empty. my visit to manila coincided with the summit of world leaders this mega city went into lockdown and not for the first time an event that shone a spotlight on the city spur. into action. so.

there could be. walking around here. is the main. theme. one of my kids have been. rescued. the fear of being picked up by the authorities spread through the streets judith's children are on the alert as the police approach they fear around the corner. is judith's oldest child. like the man in the early. morning. and. just

then there is nothing the government d.s.w. department of social welfare and development is responsible for helping the poorest people of the philippines it's also played by human rights watch for helping to organize what it called the cynical cleanup of manila before the summit first of all the. i'm sorry to say this media hype because we have registered four thousand four hundred fifty homeless street families into the program that cannot be done in months not even in three months we've been doing this instead. it is true that the energy to do something more in a coordinated in a collaborative way gets fired when their. president obama the government should care about its own people the government should care about its own people and we have very good programs that have shown

a lessening of children in conflict with the law and no children begging in their streets. many of the people rescued from the streets by the d.s.w. do you have a piece of port here to the jose for velo reception center this is one of a handful of such centers in manila intended to provide temporary accommodation for street people it has a bed capacity of two hundred twenty two when we visit there are five. hundred sixty five people sleeping here. and there still another is given me any little bustle funnel like get the mail you know one or. the fish i'm not buying it on the last. will not. believe the need a leg a battle now and now i look like you. are bitching and. moaning about what it will be a few. percent is divided into wards for women families single men

and the mentally ill some of them a locked up for their own safety we were told and this includes children. is it right to put children in this place god. it doesn't seem a very good way to make children better for them to be not doing here. or there i go too far. but we didn't think it was fitting for the did they tell us all. their secret it was the kids. and to tell you it's a given when we did it a little city children are not normally in here before i think it was difficult to talk openly to people in the center but several told us they prefer to be out on the street memo miles and the guy on the sum up when you explode on big

rig down someone. you know need to make that m.m. in the b.b. gun battle as i see you. make good on the clowns and. feel foresees didn't catch judith's family i'm with the summit's over manila in life returns to normal children out on the streets begging to survive there is money in this city but. it's mostly in the hands of a privileged few with inadequate resources to lift everyone out of poverty the government looks the other way as people fend for themselves. six thousand miles away in sweden on a bitterly cold day it's a different story here no one's breaking the law by breaking some beggars even drive cars it's nine am and a friend just taking catalin to what he hopes will be

a lucrative pitch he's travelled across the continent to be here originally from remain year now he asked for cash in one of europe's richest countries. this week. will be a good list of witnesses to be hopeful b.g.p. get the whole diversity addressed little bit a bit. i've come here because unlike the philippines there are funds in sweden to help the poorest in society it's famous for its generous welfare system but despite that safety net the raw many beggars here too in cities across the country and they get a mixed reception it's a problem because it's not. a view of the street we are used to seeing and that certainly is something common swedish thing either and it's it's difficult because it's putting all of its people in

a difficult situation yes it's sad to see the beggars but i can see in this a common nowadays to just work by think about the match it's ok to give money to somebody who is disabled on her arm or something ok this guy cannot work and stuff but when you when you see a grown person who is. capable for work. work your money matters. to people here maybe a little. it's been a profitable day for catlin and he's heading home. for now that's this squatter camps on the outskirts of malmo in southern sweden. the people here are a dispersed ethnic group with roots in central in eastern europe. hundred sixty of them on this site living in shacks in caravans some came in search of work but the majority look for handouts on the streets.

really seem. to reno was begging on the streets in italy but sweden strong economy north. really can't be anything. even my family and if your life. in the end you cannot leave me really you have the end of the employee house. and you. never get back to you now because i think the money could be you can get in if you and

their company you and now i'm going to leave but i don't have any. genius children remain being cared for by her in-laws while she begs on the streets of melbourne my would just. guess. some something else i look for. and the cause and i see. the nation held. reminds me of when. i'm just thinking am. i came to nothing yet i can't beat it. i just be now and i don't look in the. if i am to they have a shape. maybe. roma beggars in europe are often accused of belonging to organized criminal gangs i

wanted to know if this was the case with gina are you part of an organized gang. now we don't tell anybody do you have to give any part of the money. to somebody in the roman community you keep yourself yes no mania kindly he can't help but home. why because we don't tell all the school. if we want to go to bake it maybe make one corny the day. so they can support the right to be then we go all of them out of the big game now this year but for gina and others who fled poverty to come here recent events have made life more difficult it's not just the rober who are the new arrivals in malmo it's also an entry point for the huge numbers of syrian refugees coming into sweden and those are the people who the city authorities are really focused on. most train station full of exhausted

syrians and afghans relative to the size of its population sweden is taking more refugees than almost any other country in europe and this is affecting attitudes towards the roma beggars yes we are becoming less tolerant of here called separated from the whole refugee situation in people's minds these two issues are blending together although the robot immigrants are fleeing. poverty discrimination is people like syrian refugees are fleeing war it's two different things but in people's minds it becomes just strange is it feeds into the cellar phobia of course this is an explosive situation and it needs to be dealt with somehow. in my elbow the authorities have decided that the squatters have to go. this is really kind of like a protestant. don't touch my home. we put in all the houses in.

the city council has issued an eviction notice from family four o'clock out of here. the people of. the pollutants. because it is very dangerous for them to leave here like yours but at least believe in the street. you can be better to live in the streets and. something to make food and sleep. i head to the capital stalker i want to put catalans question to the head of a government task force responsible for dealing with roma from other e.u. countries it would be impossible for sweden to offer entire world for insisting here to everyone who is poor and in europe so therefore the solution the long term solution must be for their own countries these people have to survive but

effectively you're saying they can't do that here in sweden they have to leave if all they can do is beg now they are allowed to stay and we won't. ban banking i think it's bad idea but if you come to sweden you must find legal way of living you cannot. make settlement in parks and private property swedish law must be. powell. and the bro in the camp try to contest the eviction notice with out success now they have to decide what to do with. it just. go with it and not. just about a conduct of the year or two you may know from up when you there is a few blocks but. that's all know where that's.

going to go. it's the shed you'll day of the fiction. is to robo wait for the police to arrive there joined by swedish supporters. and. summon malmo want to see the romance moved on i think it is being programmed for sweden the people to live that way. go back to god. not his way i sometimes. don't counsel yelps you know what i've been feeling yourself with your money i don't get paid no amount of though i've been held up till we can't account for how. both the mother and the medicine are thinking of until the more she is gone but. the deadline passes with no sign of the police. the roma and their supporters celebrate long into the

night they think they've won a reprieve but even if they do manage to stay in this camp the political voices raised against them are growing louder. these parliament buildings not come here to meet a member of parliament whose party is trying to make banking illegal. when we were a start scale of begging and when we have these kind of begging where you citizens come to sweden that's creates a lot of problems. the swedish democratic is a nationalist party is growing in popularity that wants to stop free movement within the e.u. we have to make something on the legislation against begging is something that. more european country has been doing an eye test worked well for them and we're looking at those examples and we want to see them as we are and as well so we have to make your voice heard it especially when we have our government not doing anything and in the meantime it's just tough luck for these people who are banking

here well there's a tough luck for many people in the world but this is the situation we have to handle. two nights later back in malveaux the police finally turn off but the roma can it's four am in the morning. swedish activists are removed first pulled out one by one until only a few dozen row by row bank. by daybreak the bulldozers have moved in and the hemmed in robots are released but they aren't going quietly. little bit of blood this is not their beloved late night the one on one of the shelter from the no zone or below then young lady that is the dump. the crowd demands an audience with the city's head of social welfare caribbean nelson. as it becomes increasingly insistent she appears that she's in no mood to compromise is all that it will teach me feed and be in for more fun at that for my

feet but then at the end you're going to have a craving spirit. but a few nights in a temporary hostel before being sent back to romania is not what the roma are looking for they bed down for the night and the standoff continues over the days that followed. the benchley the police move in once again. so they were kicked out of their camp their. protest outside the town hall was pushed back just a few dozen people here left under the bridge some people now say they might go back to remain others saying they'll go elsewhere in sweden a few saying that they'll stay here and fight. later that evening as some accept the government's offer of a free bus ride home and others stay and put a brave face on their plight i was struck by the paradox of the heart of my own journey in the philippines baking is illegal but tolerated through necessity here

in sweden it's legal but only grudgingly accepted. two different responses to people who for whatever reason feel a need to ask others for charity underlying them both is a growing gap between the world's rich and poor well we can lock up we can move them on but bankers will always be with us. struggling with the effects of climate change sierra leone's dry season is on forgiving but compounded by corruption it's a wet season month slides that acclaiming my stripes i don't remember even you will when if i think you do in one thousand wound up who died in two minutes you can empower investigates the effects of deforestation and illegal building and asks

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