oh ok. no five. 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. joke. yes let's hope. we all give those up just for everyone and i welcome you to new york and i wish all the best kept that in your back you got to get up and go for we think you can use it. 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 bizarre beliefs. from my childhood days i'll smallville watching the news to see. on screen so i'm very much helping a little from a set. move on top. but i think doesn't without how my sister in pennsylvania. allude truck. ok what i do when i cross or break i'm going to call you by. the time i did this. to us i thought of this moment you know i might if i have. a. truck on is also from liberia and they knew each other through

a friend back home. carol is the son known as well really the parkhill housing project was also truck on its first stop in america that was in one nine hundred ninety nine and he's been here ever since. most if you want it. or one of the different things number. one. he lives here with his two sons and his cousin and after the long trip this is where joseph will spend his first night in america.

yeah that's just a. lot like. the going to do news poll. media. and. the news. is jam packed to capacity it's the cycles with. the intervening come together and one of will say then i would feel good even when people seem to say yes there's. a lot of good will not make it a good thing that only so many ways and so we need a lot i mean. that evening truck on take joseph out on the town check.

out the old. george is the brand zero zero zero zero zero zero. this is your. most of truculence friends are liberians who have been in the u.s. for years and they still believe they are living the american dream is the force of what it was felt that it. was not a bulls logo will actually come out of you. to. tell those who are. seeing these young. children that you know that's my right now making me feel i mean you are going someplace where you come to love you. nobody had a home and no you make you know. just because you don't want to murder you really

want to buy the right now this is parked car was parked hill is bustling with house parties on saturday night in one of truculence friends is celebrating his birthday was was. the music and faces are familiar but the atmosphere has an edge. to sift is 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 they. think under god . joseph has seen enough.

the next morning joseph 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. support the president. he said. 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. 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 at me she would say and where you she told you she said nothing that you maybe will you know if you continue to think and they say grazie advice i was ok i don't know. that you know yet over a. few days to her. the fourth of july marks america's independence day and then it brings the. only to

a public picnic and it's just it's first real look at middle america you're free. to look you're looking at very dark. city streets are early i'll. give you the speech you see if. you just don't feel i'm even. thinking about you so far down the aisle can just sit down your snack and just sit . there and speak. enjoy doing your. report on how the little you doing it used to be. he can think about his future tomorrow today juice it is finally content. just as johnny an incredible insight into one my parents pursuit of the american dream that was more than eight years ago now and i'm sure wondering whatever happened to. rewind went

back recently to arion pennsylvania to find out how life is new don for joseph since we last saw. i came to you he tells you to. join in the summertime 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 i thought it was going to be hard for me to get started. at the end of the year we know started you know what in the winter no very much similar. flies 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. are no excuse that it was surprising to me that i was

a five star little while we knew i was and why. this news just out of fall fall for it was so amazing to me joy of a first time. my first game ah how good i was there in the book and. things were a little bit difficult you know full starting point as time progressed to sterling getting better of both joe starr working as an immigrant although good food costs. will live the american dream you know and i believe i'm living american dream because it is better then before you. know how a job can revive see you're still living living good lives living american dream yes or everything is good good. good thing how to bring a move. out of memorial. thing that's only one of the best thing

a bit. of fog and. my mom. was in the house with all of the kids things were going bad. because she still lawn towel to file a marvel or forty years. i only used to talk to on the phone while i really miss and i wanted to see you all i wanted to come and see without. you know the how about life experience. on the other side of the war. is my house well.

you did well. so says but what he's doing ten years ago. unlimited you're only get two of. these markets. isn't there any room. and. it will move. and there's more room. he must sell document you can do anything that i won't do to see we've got a little in circumstances i'll stick with upcoming a week. just coming. out just. so that's why i believe. that's what i get only to do it does remind me

every day i want to look up in the morning like swap with a barber i see you only don't believe in i get out above my head believe. joseph is from liberia this is his second attempt to cross the border. the first new york. you know more above quote one of the must so. and do you know once you did you know. if you. saw the progress that's not. being you i'm sitting now i'm settled down. i get a house i've got a job i've got a car. and. a struggle the struggle continues but i leave. a huge distance from but i did. of course

huge histories. 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. rewind returns i can bring your people back to life i'm sorry with brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries in live i was the both of us and the like and the other student rewind continues with spirit child we do stories that have impacts on social sites. to make sure that the bad guys behind bad ass so many people have gone to jail as a result of my work rewind on al-jazeera and monday put it on. us and british

companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. billions of dollars have been stolen from malaysia meet the whistleblower who exposed the deals and criminal cover ups. when east investigates the world's biggest heist. on al-jazeera. newsstand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world.

al-jazeera desperate for mole we've heard news about your actions babies most of you want to take a week or two he said i need to work i need the money part of it i think it's humiliating because i thought i'd be somewhere else in my life and i'm not risking it all fifty dollars. for a better future i always saying yes to the house do you want to sleep on. on al-jazeera. venezuela's opposition leader. the military the blocking aid is a crime against humanity. his rival president nicolas maduro appears with loyal soldiers warning they're ready for any threats from enemies.

whole rahman you're watching al-jazeera live more headquarters here in doha coming up in the next thirty minutes with ice all squeezed out of syria we'll look at the threat it poses in afghanistan both on the battlefield and in the universities also warning that the world's insects are hurtling towards extinction threatening a global ecosystem catastrophe. welcome to the program russia and the u.s. have offered very different solutions to the crisis in venezuela both countries present a draft resolutions to the united nations security council washington back self declared interim president. its resolution calls for free and fair elections on the delivery of international aid moscow on the other hand it supports president nicolas maduro it's counterproposal criticizes any efforts to intervene in

venezuela's domestic issues and no date has been set for the vote now inside venezuela. efforts to block food and medicine from entering the almost almost genocidal tons of usaid remains stuck on the colombian border as well as military has so far refused to let it in under orders from president maduro he says the aid is part of the. u.s. ploy to remove him from power quieter says he'll use volunteers to open new routes into the country. i understand that they want to block the aid because that's what a victimizer does it makes them seem almost genocidal by their actions they're killing venezuelans killing children who are protesting killing fernando abandon opposition lawmaker i understand that they would want to deny this and not allowing the humanitarian aid the regime should know it this is a crime against humanity gentlemen of the armed forces. gracias.

one way to go and members of the opposition are getting ready for a week of what expected to be intense protests they're already calling for some groups to demonstrate on monday a massive demonstration in other parts of the country on tuesday other protests on wednesday the idea is to pressure the government to allow them to get aid into the country we already know that aid is arriving medicines and food to the border between venezuela and some type of other aid is also expected to try to enter the country in the world that brazil and venezuela and why the offset today also. could be i gather it has some caribbean island with the help of another land but it's not clear which is going to take place what we know is that many in venezuela are in desperate need there are shortages of food because of the prices mostly people cannot afford some of the basic items because of hyperinflation changing prices are

changing from one minute to be other there's also enormous forty off the medicines were in a hospital a few days ago where babies are dying because of lack of proper medicine to treat. for example so the situation is dire here but the government is saying that aid is being used politically by the opposition who is demanding precedent. for free and general elections for now. elections and won't be happening in venezuela anytime soon. we just maturing meanwhile insists his soldiers all ready to defend venezuela against the united states and the rest of its enemies state t.v. pictures all attending military exercises in the northern states. today the most important military exercises that are republican history recalls have been successfully initiated throughout the national territory the most important because of the situation we are living in of real threat from the

imperialist government of donald trump against the peace of venezuela the head of the empire has threatened us and that is generated indignation rejection by all the people of venezuela and of the world public opinion well as well as economic hardship has been especially painful for vulnerable elderly people in america to certainly see in human went to one home to see how residents coping. this is hill of hope western business well in old age home where destitute or abandoned senior citizens are meant to live out their last years with dignity. but as always in times of acute economic hardship it's the youngest and the oldest who suffer most in the absence of full time staff seventy nine year old. keeps the gate locked and helps those who can't walk because he still can. we help each other out

amongst ourselves like almost everyone he suffers from hypertension but there's no medicine here. until you could walk and see when he came here three years ago now he's blind from untreated cataracts can't walk and his tormentor by a hernia i think. last night i was in terrible pain. i cry from the pain. i am very. god knows how long i'll remain. sometimes there is nothing to eat we have no help from the government there is no one to help us. the home is a foundation that runs on donations but they've dried up so there are no nurses or doctors and very very little food. the cook says it wasn't always that

way. they used to throw away the food once there was abandoned. until the crisis came the crisis began six years ago she says most of the donors have left the country hyperinflation has led to widespread poverty and scarcity of almost everything. it's time for dinner and so on you have a c.e.o. who's confined to a wheelchair helps guide for the beneath this who's blind to the dining room and this is the dinner for the grandfathers as they're called it's corn flour boiled water because we're told it's been more than a year since they received any donations of milk and this will be the last thing they're going to eat until tomorrow. the cook and the cleaner will be leaving soon and they'll be left alone to put themselves to bed no later than six so they won't feel so hungry until breakfast. they are resigned they say to being forgotten in

a country with so many other desperate need. to see in human. in this way that. the u.s. military says it's likely to begin pulling troops out of syria in a few weeks but the top american commander in the middle east cautioned the big timing would depend on how things are going on the ground the trumpet ministration has been sending mixed messages on when the withdrawal will happen president trump surprised many of his allies in december when he announced all u.s. soldiers would be coming home immediately having defeat it. u.s. backed rebels have been making advances against deisel in what's being billed as the final battle to seize the armed groups last enclave the offensive by the kurdish led syrian democratic forces all the s.d.f. is focused on the eastern village of the hose there's been heavy fighting since the offensive began on saturday twenty thousand civilians have left the area but hundreds are still full to be inside one armed group affiliated with the s.d.f.

says it wants everyone out before they advance further. trump's also been talking about withdrawing troops from afghanistan and his administration is negotiating with the taliban and in fact acting u.s. a defense secretary patrick shanahan has just arrived in kabul for talks but eisel is making inroads there and it's attracting fighters pushed out of syria and iraq the reports from mountainous border regions near pakistan. in the wild and rugged areas of eastern afghanistan life is difficult at the best of times now it has become the main battleground against i saw a fight that i saw is not losing these militia know the capability of the men their fighting commander zeitoun knows better than most he was and i saw fighter this is video of him when he was with the armed group he joined for idealistic reasons he says he left when he witnessed the brutality that submitted the hubble mission um

and then i saw was very cruel to everyone they killed people slaughtered them they used bombs they did whatever they could i had to leave here survive three assassination attempts the last a few days ago when a magnet bomb was attached to his car in a crowded marketplace killing one of his men and badly injuring him people here are scarred and scared by eisel the group launches regular attacks from mountain hideouts and bloodshed is a constant fear to mohit goals nine sons were killed by eisel one was hacked to death with an ax. i don't have power to take my revenge otherwise i would have hammered him all over his body from head to toe i would keep him for a week and then let him die slowly because that is what he deserves. with the afghan army overstretched in the fight against the taliban militias are the first line of defense in one the hard province where some get theirs and i learned that they are tough and not far from here if we leave this area they will come back to

destroy this place again but we will fight again until we die then the other cues these militias have only basic arms and equipment they say is insufficient to really fight i still they need more and us air power alone is not enough to destroy eisel bases or prevent their operations that needs to happen on the ground the network of tunnels and i saw hideouts in the tora bora mountains are easy to defend and almost impossible to attack from the ground commander zeitoun points out the spot where the americans dropped their biggest non-nuclear bomb containing ten thousand kilos of explosives to try and destroy eisel positions the militias say it made no difference. if the u.s. paid the amount they spent on this mother of all bombs we could have finished deisel. local commanders say that eisel here has men from chechnya turkey and pakistan in its ranks but communities fear that if i saw he's pushed out of syria

it will rebase to afghanistan in the. desert and this was the foreign fighters are very cruel and don't have sympathy for anyone the local i saw have at least some feeling for afghans but foreign isolator cruel or their hearts are made of stone on the battlefield i still may be contained for now but it's taking ground in the propaganda war last week afghan security services arrested a cleric and a professor who are alleged to be eisel spies western diplomats report that afghan universities have become fertile ground for eisel recruitment one car university in jalalabad was closed for a time last year so recruiters and sympathizers could be cleared out. of this. but there's not people who are using illicit deal for politically thought against the guard and no one can bring that ideas to work again the interest of the country in the remote militia outpost facing eisel positions the hope is they get western support and weapons before they have to.