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i'm richelle carey here at al-jazeera english we have built a library of award winning documentaries over the past decade and on rewind we're taking another look at some of the very best of them this week on back to two thousand and ten on al-jazeera follow the heartwarming story of one man's determination to leave the poverty of us west african home in the liberian capital of monrovia risking his life to cross the sahara desert on the back of a pickup truck and the whole. of the better life in the west his name is joseph

lamo and his drive to make a new life for his family was fraught with setbacks from two thousand and ten here's the extraordinary story of one man's journey from liberia to the shores of america's great lakes this is joseph journey. to. the field. where you come in where you. yeah i see a green truck yeah you're in for the green jacket can see you and know that just you see the cars just because they seem to be in the superstore. now are on the right we need to. cut. cut. cut cut

cut cut cut cut the power of the piece you know the like. o. her primary battle with the. man after two years of not enough and i first met joseph blamo while covering a story on illegal immigration and that was a chance encounter two years ago and little did i know that juice if journey would take him from the sahara desert all the way to new york city. this is the way out of africa the sahara desert begins just outside the town of cows in the north east of mali. thousands of sub-saharan africans come through here every year many without documents but with enough money to pay for a truck ride across the desert. the smuggling of people is a big business here and we couldn't risk filming in town that's why we're out here in the desert trying to meet up with the travellers already on their way tell geria

. thank. god of town is where the smuggling route begins we wait until nightfall when most of the pickup trucks leave. traveling on the smugglers route we came across this broken down vehicle with about twenty guys inside all going to algeria and then on to libya and some even to europe. let me see. my tire my tire busted while traveling in the desert the passengers knew the dangers of traveling in the desert packed into old vehicles joseph is from liberia this is his second attempt to cross the border. saw people even though a better president yeah. yeah yeah. well what kind of. know what. about to walk off an ina does it want but. somehow they get the

truck running again and it's time to go. tens of thousands make trips just like this one it's dangerous people fall off the back in breakdowns leave entire groups stranded hundreds continue to die a year after year. these young men have already come a long way conditions are tough but nothing will stop them after reaching. they will look for transport to either libya or morocco the launching pads for southern europe but for now they still have four hundred kilometers of desert in mali on a twenty seven year old toyota pickup. back in liberia. older brother received bad news just a journey ended when he was caught by the algerian peace. we don't know how those were actual migrants. i don't one but i'll swear i'm concerned with

a very vicious to do with. the authorities took his belongings in abandon him on the mali inside of the desert border. the family was worried they came together and raised one hundred fifty us dollars hoping he would come home and call us and was i knew i would see that. no company would see that money or that he suddenly come back. to life. mr and mrs blom move were upset with their son and hadn't even told them where he was going and you know what they. had bought at the dental. his rule is that it won't cost you the one i want with bill. and we can't think about this let me get to my blessing.

joseph was back but liberia hadn't changed. just it has a computer science certificate from a vocational college but it's not enough for stable employment here. they were calling boats at the beach was still the only job available to him and his friends . i'm fed up. to see if wanted out once again so he took a chance in played what is called the u.s. green card lottery if you win you can live and work in the united states legally. in the next couple. of months. so. long. but finally

a glimmer of hope he was randomly selected for a crucial interview at the american embassy here in monrovia it seems like joseph luck was finally changing. its josephs big morning but it's important for everyone with a job in the us choose it can be a vital life to his father's household of fifteen people. that evolved was the atheist who said thank you for all what they do for us. well i just. i will find out if you will but i want. to like you know. it was. now i'm feeling very well far. as my mom was a kid. i'm in love. with them. together you go to.

a few steps away is the american embassy in the interview that could change you seems like. more than thirteen million people from around the world play the lottery each year. but the u.s. government only grants fifty thousand visas. millions of the lottery entries come from places like liberia which was recently torn apart by a vicious civil war. seventy percent of the people here live in poverty juice if blamo is not the only one trying to leave. what are the chances.

better they he ever could have imagined. they were. doing. well we could just see myself getting never ever. gambon if the walking i want to have. to go they were. told that there's so many told. where. a convoy of three cars carrying thirty four people bring joseph to the airport for

a late night flight. his immediate family staying the closest to him. that. i don't know. what it was because of the way you were. was. going to. i'm. all good. but i'm nobody. it's the start of a new life for joseph blama. he's one of a million legal immigrants who enter the u.s. each year in new york city is his port of entry. joe.

let's hope. we all use those up just for everyone and i welcome you to the yacht. and i wish all the best kept that in your back you've got to get up and go forward think you can do so. just has a sister he hasn't seen in years who lives in the state of pennsylvania but he wants to test the waters here first he had an acquaintance who lives on staten island this is a good business. from my childhood days i'll smallville watching the news seeing me on the street so i'm very much helping a little from a set. up. but i think doesn't without you i have my sister in pennsylvania. well lou true.

ok what i'm going to do when i cross or break i'm going to call you back. but i did this. i thought of this moment you know i might have what i would do is good. truck on is also from liberia and they knew each other through a friend back home. well there is the son known as well really the parkhill housing project was also truck on its first stop in america that was in one thousand nine hundred nine and he's been here ever since. most if you.

are one of the differences number. one. he lives here with his two sons and his cousin in after the long trip this is where joseph will spend his first night in america. yeah. i'm. glad i.

begin to do news to all told. the media. and i missed. the news. is jam packed to capacity if the cyclists are. in the rain to come together and. say they would feel good even when people seem to see. all the good will not make it good the those things so many lives will simply need a while i mean. that evening truck on take joseph out on the town. to . make sure just as their friends say. this is normal. most of truculence friends are liberians who have been in the us for years in they still believe they are living the american dream is

a quarter of what there was stuff that. was not a bulls logo will actually come out of you. to. those who. should. be joining. us my right now making me feel i mean you are going someplace where you come to love your nobody at all and then you make. me look just like you i wonder if you really want to get out this park tell what part kill is busting with house parties on saturday night. in one of truculence friends is celebrating his birthday was. the music and faces are familiar but the atmosphere has an edge. to see if it's finding it hard to fit in. and he's alarmed when a fist fight breaks out of the party. juice

it isn't in danger but he doesn't want trouble. but my god he. was good god. god god god. shows if has seen enough. the next morning josephs is on a greyhound bus. he thinks the liberians he met in new york have lost their focus in news that his sister will provide a more solid foundation for his new life. what joseph doesn't know is that he is heading straight into an economic crisis. erie pennsylvania is in the middle of america's dying manufacturing region. joseph is hoping to find work in

a place where jobs are disappearing. i think he believes that those who don't have to. pay for everything the fact. is that. you still hear that perfect. job. once again joseph is prepared to take a chance. oh. aneta hasn't seen her little brother since she immigrated to the u.s. in two thousand and four. with she came here after liberia's civil war as a political refugee from. the u.s. government set her up in erie in her job as a caregiver has provided a good life for her family her children now see more american in liberia and. new

moon is my favorite scene is when the anyone doing it will tear when she went to see it and where you she told you she's in that thing that you meet with you and you get to meet him. and they say grazie evans i was. ok i don't know that you know that a. few. of her you know the fourth of july marks america's independence day and then it brings the family to a public picnic and it's josephs first real look at middle america and you feel. you look even look at paradise. city streets are early i'll. give you the speech you see it. you just don't feel i'm even. thinking about you so far down the aisle can just sit down you know snack and just

sit. with the speaker. enjoy doing your. report on how the little you doing that is he. he can think about his future tomorrow today is finally content. just as johnny an incredible insight into one my prince pursuit of the american dream that was more than eight years ago now and i'm sure you're wondering whatever happened to joseph rewind went back recently to arion pennsylvania to find out how life is new don for joseph since we last saw. a can do it does it didn't. join some one time it was nice for scheme because it was just like africa the well.

it was good. because my sister lives here so i choose you if. you want to go somewhere else where i don't know anybody was going to i thought it was going to be hard for me to get started. at the end of the year we know style you know what in the winter you know very much a similar. first went off and then the snow started fall out was my first time to see snow back in africa i only used to see snow on watching movies on t.v. i have no excuse that it was surprising to me that i was the first time a little while we knew i was and why. this news just out of fall for it was so amazing to me joy of a first time. our first game ah how they're you know look at. things a little bit difficult you know starting point as time progress to still it getting

better both joe started working as an immigrant although good food costs. will live the american dream you know and i believe i'm living the american dream because look it's better than before you. know how a job can revive see you're still living living good lives living american dream years old everything is good good. good thing how to bring a move. here how to move. thing that's only one of the best thing a bit. of fog died. my mom little was in the house with all the kids things were pulling by. because she stayed long time will not follow that marvel of forty years. i only used to talk to on a phone well i really miss and i wanted to see a lot i wanted to come and see without. the how about life experience. on the

other side of the war. to the house where. my mom. did well from so says well he's doing ten years old and women take their own little two of them. as my teaching. is that i'm a room. and . this will move. and there's

more room. he must feel that i can make you can do anything that i won't do to see we've got it all in in circumstances a stickler coming a week. just coming coming out just to does so that's why i believe in myself as i get on a dude that remind me every day well look up in the morning legs. i see you only don't believe. when i get out above my head. joseph is from like area this is the second attempt to cross the border. the first to go back to them or above quote welcome us so. and i want to know once you did see your book. the.

progress that's. being. said to now settle down. and your house i got a job i had a car. and. struggled to struggle continues but i live. a huge distance from back to now. of course huge distance. that's it for this week and you can find out more about joseph incredible story and watch other films from the series by going to the rewind page on the al-jazeera website but for now until next time you're back. a new series of rewind i can't bring your people back to life i'm sorry and bring

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the summit between u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un may still go ahead the u.s. delegation is in north korea while a team from the north has been spotted in china on its way to singapore well that's where the meeting was scheduled to be held on june the twelfth before donald trump canceled it last week for more on this that speak to andrew thomas insall then so a lot of coming and going pretty strong signals june the twelfth may be the date again it's looking very likely and that just shows the difference one frenetic weekend can make remember it was only on friday that we thought this summit was dead and buried it was off donald trump and told us so he canceled it and yet the north koreans over the weekend put out a very conciliatory statement then there was an unexpected surprise summit between kim jong un and president moon and now little to.