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updated twenty four hours a day and of course all of our latest from the world cup being held in russia for me for the moment that one east is next. the plight of the syrian people and the violence they enjoy is plain for all to see. in but behind closed doors lurks an unspeakable brutality inflicted on the women. from the brave few who survived miocene us and dignity and dead to tell the tale. silent war a witness documentary on al-jazeera. the remote windswept federal islands are a world away from tropical southeast asia. but hundreds of asian women are moving to these sub park the islands between norway and iceland amid

a shortage of local women. i'm steve cho on this episode a one on one east we meet those traveling to the far reaches of the earth to look for look. at first sight the faroe islands make your heart skip a beat. secluded in the north atlantic ocean it's striking mountains a cloaked in fog there's not a tree or a person inside it hard to imagine for someone from the philippines and looking so although there's no hell so. close the house this is just thinking. many have never heard about this tiny country at the door of the arctic circle especially in tropical thailand when i told my friend that i going to be unfair and

they say why you go to keep it there yes. home to only fifty thousand people and eighty thousand sheep. it's also cold and wet. and the strain. a lot. and in darkness for more than half of the year. went. blooming. everything it's like. because we come from one country and big country and then here is so small. but stay a while and something happens in a place that seems like it's on the edge of the earth women from afar a finding something they yearn for.

i've come to find out what it is it's. hundreds of women from asia moving to the faroe islands and being from a warm climate myself i can understand how they survive one long dark winter let alone the rest of their lives. they marry far always men often who they know little about but don't assume they aren't in charge of the destinies to find love you have to take a risk. just the local running stop the pride of the islands and of his parents mary joyce and dan thompson. mary joyce was one of the first philippines to move to the faroe

islands in fifteen years ago. they married in the philippines in two thousand and two dad had written her love like his for two years after seeing a photo of mary joy babysitting her cousin's children because they had also married if our always match. yeah i asked my address and started right first it was an introduction of him so. i was single and the is where they own the house and all the. trying to sell himself. one day decided to come to philippines and oh yeah he proposed major t.n.a.

wants to get married and what did you think when if with him. it's into the same man as the peace chairman. ten days after arriving in the philippines they were husband and wife. right. thanks so much. so thanks yes twenty. yeah but it's ok. thank. you mr libby. i. feel i am.

from delhi knowing each other to today i've come a long way i got over. there and everybody knew what i brought up. and along with their athletics on hand and they have two of the children who's twelve and eight. i'm tagging along on this excursion while the boys try to catch lunch down. with i was. able.

to. trace his ancestry in the fact. the islands back to eight hundred fifty. they fished in these waters and they were the last and. like most here he's a man of few words what made you want to go all the way. to primary. school. so. what do. you think. he must have said something right because. i think so. will have. nothing. to fish on biting today and

when it comes to my questions neither is dan. always men don't give up. despite our best efforts at fishing we returned home empty handed but luckily mary joy had defrosted the last catch just in case so what's in the sauce. it's not you also oh it's daniel so that if it were thought ok and that's not all they've been cooking up and you're pregnant you're expecting well oh. yeah in january yeah. it's. going to help with anything. it's not so hard

ok thank you. oh that's right. you can for a long. time so. mary joyce clearly at home in the faroe islands yes. she speaks fluent fairways went to university here and works as a supervisor at an afterschool program for children and teenagers how hard is the language it's very hard. to borrow the different language. from different languages. and it's not all the time that google translate king at this i think you're very resistant to do that. and treat children where calls on how. and where do you work when they met at sea on a fishing boat trip to the philippines to meet mary joy with us first to asia.

oh it was like a. bunch of. us amazing. now he works for the faroe islands and tricity company so that he can be with the family at home. because his very good oh thank you i'm very lucky to have him because he helped a lot of home so unless i be here. what's the main difference between filipino men and ferries men filipino. around in a mile. in their fathers the head of the family. and all but here it's more equality both this i'd be able to. marry joy also wanted more opportunities than the philippines could offer. is your

life now what you imagined it would be or is it different. all us that has a. women like mary joyful feel a big need on the faroe islands over the last decades young women have been leaving in droves. i. limited opportunities and a limited gene pool have meant that they have gone abroad preferring more choice in life and law. there are now fifteen hundred fewer women than men between the ages of eighteen and sixty so how do the men feel about it. i. was.

told but is my guide to the faroe ways my own mind is open to the growth of sex here or you. are off we're going to have. a journalist and a local rock star finn is one of the most eligible bachelors on the island. he says he's not worried about a shortage of women he's not looking for love but he wouldn't mind a female touch. i've got a perfect bachelor pad or you know almost the same process this will really watch much more cos it's a bit better. i need someone to know that. with the

cradle sweep sweep and. i'm not really that's ok. leaving my broom behind i take up fitness offer to visit his bachelor pad. it's a glorious evening drive. during summer in the faroe islands daylight stretches for twenty hours. when the fog lifts the scenery is breathtaking. i'm looking forward to hearing more about what the modern family's man looks for in an ideal woman. yeah.

oh thank you this is the bachelor pad this is the best. finance says he hasn't tried to find a woman from asia but he knows many men who have nice you if the women are and it's difficult yeah you can invent a woman so yeah you have to find women elsewhere and the easiest way is. the asian countries. yes welcome to my terrace he describes a trend among men his age to look for a match online i have a friend who got this heart broken by a fairways woman and he just said i have had enough so we went on the internet and agency for women of the philippines and he found himself a philippine girl and half. yeah six months later she was in the very ones

and they live happily she doesn't speak for you so i am talk to her but he's found love and it's more simple simple life what do you mean by the simple life you know where. i live where were bit more old fashioned where were there where there's. the man role where the man works if he works and he makes the all the money and and she is at home making making him dinner and breakfast and. cleaning so the traditional role exactly yeah traditional roles what do you think about the women coming here how do you think they see themselves in the society here you know it's very difficult because. especially the women from from asia they don't really have a voice here in the fire lines we don't hear what they think that much we don't

hear them in the media but you know the media yeah what it is to. try yeah. and also. it's very easy for the media to you know just go after the bad stories you know the problems but there are really. many love stories out there really are . to find out if that's true i'm missing some of the faroe islands new female residents mary joy was one of only a few foreigners when she arrived today there are nearly three hundred women from asia living here. i know here. everywhere i go mary jo introduces me to her circle and i learn that as well as her cousin. and her mother have also married fairways men since she moved here and so

this is your mother and that's it. do you like living here yeah that is the spirit i just was. useful at home so it's like a family reunion. the most common way for women to me to far away is man i discovered isn't through the internet but through other family members we are just raised your sisters. are you married to brothers and. unfortunately first as well brother. i think first your niece and her oh. we have a friend i have this. it's all started. off and the women moving to the faroes are not young brides but women who are marrying

a second time and starting afresh and so you've got your children yeah yeah and to them i could hear. a lot. more of the end of the and my. well. i'm touched by the honesty of grace who came here six years ago to begin a new life with her family as husband he said was that. always you know you're right me. right joyce. six years.