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twenty sixteen was the deadliest year on record for migrants and refugees attempting to get into europe. over five thousand people died between libya and italy or tacky and greets. the following film was fast broadcast in two thousand and seven well before today's conflicts in the middle east. then many european migrants were using another less publicized route to a better life. this is the southernmost outpost of for chris europe.

yet it's on mainland africa opposite the straits of gibraltar. the. mediterranean enclave of say is one of the last vestiges of spanish rule in northern morocco. it's been european for more than five hundred years and madrid insists it will never relinquish control of. the. recent visit by the spanish monarch highlighted the ongoing tension over the status and future of soda. spain has also cordoned it off from playing comparison with another war in another place so here we are in. but i see the.

element of the list. like one of them which is. the crossing between morocco and spain has become a magnet for tens of thousands of workers and migrants legal and illegal. but this is the back door into the prosperous european union and the hope of a better economic future. and within the town of so it is another divide a social division that is religious and economic that when the wealthy christian spaniards and their poor a muslim compadre it's awful rock and sand. a

town of soda is a geographical anomaly parts of mainland africa but belonging to europe and. even its geographical position it's no wonder that one of the foremost map makers of the ancient world was born here in ten ninety nine. helped make possible the great voyages of discovery which led to colonize ation and as in the case of soto the presence of europe in africa. once again economic opportunism is the prime mover but now the migration is in the opposite direction. as those who were formerly colonized head north riven by war wound and oppression. ending up here at the gates of europe. a dollar moment or two moment i. can feel the local color take

a second fin to the little problematic. what the migrants find is a double fence. most of it paid for by the european union. four meters high six kilometers long. cable dental got a hole in the sand in there and this over here is the only. effective up there are they not of their own model i mean if you go. to church what the migrants also find is a holding center or their status as refugees is decided and that typically takes months it's not a frozen but the rock and straight. to tunisia she do nice who. wants to longest well.

walk easy. to commute on city of. him ali who's more yet medici him off the path to. suit our city to city as we see is if we see for school . b.c. part of why you google to look good or merely. remove the model. for those who arrive often come from far further afield from other continents even . i came here from india kashmir because of economical problems and in india you know. there are people who are allowed into from africa and it takes them only a few minutes every day thousands of moroccans trudged past the deserted guard

posts that separate the spanish enclave from morocco. the bundles of soap clothes and oil they carry home for resale in morocco and not entirely legal traffic. but the spanish authorities turn a blind eye knowing how profitable this trade is to the city. this cross border trade is along with an old relationship built on mistrust and suspicion between spain and morocco over say. it goes back to the collapse of muslim rule in spain at the end of the fifteenth century which for some gives the issue a religious dimension. and

. saying. here's a. little more thought. you know a little. north. africa be more you know mounted on windows. you know. they want to come in. on the surface say what europe is to be a harmonious cosmopolis of the city. but through the middle of it runs

a mob over. the invisible. but divides it seventy thousand inhabitants along religious lines. around the theater. and then let's see. a shadow for them again it's a. beautiful souls and then. you have. them. and. this is the impoverished hillside neighborhood of principally alphonso. disaffected

inhabitants cite examples of official neglect contributing to their poverty and despair. this is where hard to say which is muslims live. and those muslims who feel marginalized make no secret of where their allegiances lie. i'm every friday they pray for the health and prosperity of the king the king of morocco. oh. television was leaving the scene and the. whole world who work.

for. porn i know whom. i met. with the think i see that as us where all six of us or may not be buffy to be in europe or not a home. part of our home. the feel heavier medina that only connected to the past and the thought pattern a city here here let's talk for i'll tell you have many units that will see me i let you know you at do know. there was even home. it's a scene a first communion or often played out in mainland spain the priest officiating doesn't see any divisions between same to christians and muslims. no no you have no qualms about it you're going to get a lot of fear in so many people see. the sort of thing they will manage it all all

the way here and there have been a lot of it i think into only that it some we go to the olive. oil and i can you get all the more that i'm all that you know this i will add nothing that i have not been to the moment about my say that you know what i feel what happened in the last you know well that is what i mean you know my mind called about you know the fire in the cradle it on which i know the money that you know i you want to buy you a low noise but i still favor the best of it but it will be some of the money that you have put out here that would be better than. the city of souter is spain's footprint on the very northern tip of africa and for african migrants the shortest way into europe. to stop them europe is build a double barbed wire fence it's a modern version of the great wall of china and more recently the wall. while those walls relied on heights and guards to keep outsiders that play spanish fans

bristles with electronic surveillance gear but the purpose is the same. offense it replaced much lower was too easily breached with the result of the truly desperate souter became a stepping stone into continental europe. or in the words. of my morning. smart you know i wonder. if my being you know. so we're. going to be. difficult is. those who still charms their luck wait in the surrounding forests but if court they are transported

back to their countries of origin by the moroccan north already. now though there are growing demands for a more constructive approach to bring about a lasting solution to the problem of illegal immigration. to get up in a sort of short time and then even to go by say before going to laugh with you because i don't think i forgot to look i said that he said i go there so i see him going to the head but i mean that i feel that they would like that and that it is just awful you know this appropriate bicycle nothing i'm going to get out of a book on that awful good thing and so were you i was surprised. but i will die and i do a little bit with the man who lets you cannot see if he if it is here. and just. based on mean that he could mean think of what i want to let you know how the timing. you know it would then if. the home but army is. one

of them. to see those programs in action one has to cross the mainland spade on the other side of the mediterranean. this is the bay of cod these. are on the twenty fifth of october two thousand and three local man was shocked by the sight of thirty five male corpses washed ashore close to his home twelve of them were from the same rock but believe. to see. the corpse of young people. here in the fistfight. for four hours it was a very. heavy experience. when

we found the people we take our cars with our own money and we went to morrow we were to find their people of france how in benny made out because benny morale is up plays with our heights right off of a ration and we decided to go there i'm displaying there reeks of illegal immigration advert to shim tame data he took courses back. to get me for the man. who is a schoolteacher decided to take action he founded a charity. certainly that is the director to ensure that the little moroccan

village of. does not lose any more of its husbands and some he's constantly encouraging others to join him. he's only have your town we all are volunteers we're spending our own money we put our cars our own work we don't have. money public money because we've seen that people have to shamed inside when people are chained inside it is able to change their world. and the change that raphael and his charity is aiming to bring about is in the minds of hansal of residents who still view migration as their only salvation paying little attention to the well known rules. even know when to. cross a. router it was very dangerous and many of their friends and parents

were dead because of that sound of their young people from one salah wanted to cross a bright area here. but what makes the approach of this charity so innovative is not its idealism but its pragmatism in linking the economic interests of spanish citizens with the well being of those in a remote iraq and village. it costs taxpayers in spain two thousand euros every time that a drowned man is sent back in a coffin. so far better to spend that in developing the migrants place of origin and adoption of sorts but arbors can emulate we wanted to make from wareham sila a good place to leave because it is i would have a place to live. we have started building

a small clinic or classroom for the children. we have started to given them. in order to avoid that a little children work in the in the country because we understood that that is better data literacy and remain in the school i mean because if they are working in the country there is a possibility that if they try to any rate because they don't get enough money to leave but if they are sturdy they have a possibility of developing. this imaginative grassroots initiative is it all with the fencing and policing approach favored by the european government. of fortress europe. south as bob why barry a may for a time at least stop the flow. but it does nothing to remove jewelry on the

line causes. a different. something artificial. to d.m. it is not going to a stop there people it is not going to stop or even ration it to can control illegal immigration but if you call in to a stop or eat. in order to stop illegal immigration we have to shane our mentality to them entirely people have to change to africa because a day in africa they have to understand they have to work protecting their old me interested in developing their own economies. is a radical shift in thinking realize ation. sooner

or later defense in sofia is going down sooner or later because france fancies a contest to a pair of people. from many years i go up to no people any rate. i'm easy going to happen this time in the future so fantasies. are not the sure wish or. east to all prime i work hard because their main frames its place inside our heart. the film you've just seen was first broadcast almost ten years ago when the number

of migrant deaths from spanish territory had reached its peak. the world's media only started to take notice when the drowned audience of african migrants began washing ashore on the tourist beaches of the spanish canario. spain's response was to stiffen its border security but despite all the effort and expense spent on beefing up its buddhist migration is on the rise. migrants hoping to be among the lucky few to reach the other side have often rushed the border fence shown in the c.c.t.v. footage released by the spanish government sometimes the consequence is a tragic. on one occasion and say uta and twenty fourteen at least fourteen african migrants drowned when trying to swim their way from morocco to spain. these pictures show spanish buddha guts firing rubber bullets and smoke canisters

to would survive this as they swim across the border. those who made it to life were deported back to morocco on the other side of the. a spokesperson from the spanish ministry of interior said that shots fired one aimed at the swimmers and claimed their response was proportional. today this is no longer an issue isolated in a far away spanish and played. the number of people hoping to reach europe has swelled by huge wave of refugees from was in syria iraq and afghanistan. thousands of people a testing year of the buddhas by the sea from libya to its early and from taki to greece and then continuing overland to europe's more affluent countries. the scene . the from hungary as refugees attempt to travel west we are humans well documented the way that what you see us look everyone here they are families we don't need

anything just to close the. other human off you're just doing like on the one reason or do you mean being dirty oh. come on. in response europe is building more rules today there are five existing fences across the continent with at least one of the six either in construction scheduled . most of these rules separate e.u. nations from countries outside the union but some fences a planned between member states a move that's against the spirit of the e.u. according to the e.u.'s foreign policy chief europe was built on the idea that walls have to fall down europe was built on the idea of coming together. more

refugees and migrants travelling around the wards within africa within asia than those that are coming to europe this to say we have as europeans to put things in perspective and to realize that it is not only a european phenomenon it is a global move. starting from wars conflicts poverty natural disasters climate change it is the war that is going in that direction people move out of desperation out of hope and we have to learn how to manage this. without a political solution in sight migrants and refugees remain undeterred taking on increasingly dangerous routes into europe. when we where in that border in the same i was standing on one leg and raising my son on the other one in order to get him up from the water because the water was still

here. whenever i see something that has happened in the news my first reaction is to please god don't let this person have been someone that we released on parole gate keepers of the parole system you're asking us for a second chance rape was important to me is on the other side of friends and colleagues at other side of us it was amused at argument of our many times you've been in prison exploring the dark side of american justice system with job on al-jazeera. bang located outside that western centric fair of influence we're able to bring

a different perspective to global that. when you pave the way but unless it's a covert military in the financial dollar going you see the people in those words and his policies are affecting see the elation on their faces the situation they're living in that's when all the us can identify with the story. a new perspective can change your world. for one chin is ian began as a hobby has grown into a passion a way of life. teaching the next generation to strive for a higher level. and in so installing in his country a sense of freedom and strength. new heights my chin is yeah on al-jazeera.

hello i'm maryam namazie in london here's a quick look at the top stories this hour an uneasy truce appears to be holding along the israel gaza border following a day of violence on friday that soyuz rady as strikes and tank fire hit dozens of hamas targets following the death of an israeli soldier four palestinians were killed and at least one hundred twenty wounded a ceasefire brokered by egypt in the united nations dotted at midnight local time stephanie deca has the latest from gaza. hamas is many chewing the kasam brigades are burying their dead three of their members were.