it is around the world must be inspired by the catherine struggle for democracy. the white house says president donald trump has not yet decided on whether he'll back a deal to avoid another government shutdown that's according to the which is news agency republicans and democrats have hammered out the agreement which reportedly includes more than one billion dollars in funds for border security but it's well short of the five point seven billion dollars trump has been demanding for a wall along the mexican border and the seventeen people fleeing the u.s. led airstrikes have reportedly been killed in eastern syria including seven children hundreds of civilians are trapped as the kurdish led syrian democratic forces battle eisel fighters u.s. backed coalition says the s.d.f. is making progress against arsenal which is clinging on to its last remaining enclave on the border with iraq coming up a young liberians journey across the sahara in pursuit of a better life rewind is up next more news for you after that i phone or.

hello welcome to rewind 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 hope of a 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. and we're you know yeah this is a green truck you're hearing from the green jug you can see you. know that's just you pseudocode just. as you did this superstore. now we're

on the right we need to. do this. after two years of i first met joseph blamo while covering a story on illegal immigration that was a chance encounter two years ago little did i know that joseph 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 in the northeast 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. 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 tell the jury and then on to libya and some even to your oh. 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. a stop it will even though better

him a present. of migrant yes yes migrants. no no what. about it what often 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 regional jury 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 the beast. we don't know how those were real actual migrants. i don't one but i was foreign concerns were very vicious to do with migrants. 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 it was i knew i would see that. no i but he would see that money or that done got me some and i'll come back. to life. mr and mrs blah move were upset with their son and hadn't even told them where he was going and you know what they would. have bought at the end of.

his rule is that it won't cost to the one i want with bill. and with him think about this let me give you 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 you don't know and then i doubt. you know. joseph 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.

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 u.s. to sift can be a vital life to his father's household of fifteen people. that you go what is the atheist who said thank you for all what they do is. pull out but. i will find out who over. again oh oh it was.

now i'm feeling what fox it was my mom was a kid. i'm in love. with them to go to. a few steps away is the american embassy in the interview that could change use of slightly. 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. what are the chances. better than he ever could have imagined. there you go out there. but. they were. doing. well we could just see myself getting never to. gamble if the walking going 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. was going to. be that you. don't like to think. of the young man who. doesn't. like a bad. rabbit you know who you're going to. get was. over. with. but i

know what. 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. you want. us let's hope. we all used those up as well. and i welcome you to do you all and i would show all the bad guys keep that in your back you got to get up and go forward thinking or to say. 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. you have an acquaintance who lives on staten island there's a good bit. from my childhood days i'll smallville watching the news to see.

on screen so i'm very much hoping the little famo set in the. home. nobody talked to. but i think doesn't without you i have my sister in pennsylvania . oh good truck route i'm. ok what i'm going to do when i cross a bridge i'm going to call you back. but i did this. to us i thought of this moment you know i'm over you have what i would do is good your. truck on is also from liberia and they knew each other through a friend back home.

bob. walker is the son known. as well they are 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 can. possible for one of the differences numbers. wise. this is why. 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 a. drive by.

the good news paul. needed. and i missed. the news. is jam packed to capacity it is the cycles of. the intervening come together and little sleep and then the wheels with even when people seem to say yes. to all the good will not make you are going to vote 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 like perience who have been in the us for years in 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 have to come out of you. to. tell 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 there was a park 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 a party. to see if it isn't in danger but he doesn't want trouble. but my god he. was a good god. was . 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 are the. people in the present. is that. you still hear that perfect. credit for job. once again shows it 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 at me she would say and where you she told you she said nothing that you maybe you can do to me if you come and they say grazie advice i was ok i don't know. that you know the only a. few. of her but 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 easy you. just don't feel i'm even. thinking about you so far down the aisle can just sit down you can just sit. here and speak. enjoy doing your. report on how the little you doing that does 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 has moved on from joseph since we last saw.

akin to you he tells you to. join in the summertime it was nice first game 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 don't start you know what in the winter new film or dissimilar. 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 first time.

our first game ah how good i was there in the book and. things were a little bit difficult you know from 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 kids better than before. know how to judge a revive see you're still living living good lives living the american dream yes or everything is good. and they will good thing how to bring a movie. out memorable. thing that's only one of the best thing at the. following. my mom little was in the house with all the kids

things were going by. because she stayed a long time will not follow the marvel of forty years. i only used to talk to on the phone while i really miss and i wanted to see if i wanted to come and see it without. you know the how about life experience to. only want to sell the war. to the house well. my mom. did well up front so says what he's doing ten years ago. and women take their only took two of them. to smoke

each. dining room. and. it 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 under any circumstances i'll stick with upcoming a week. just coming. out just. so that's why i believe. that's why i got into it and i was reminded every day well look up in the morning legs while. i see you only don't believe. when i get out above my head i'd be the most. justice from like area this is the

second attempt to cross the border this. is the first to. do them around of course one of the most so. and on to your bow once you get it in your book. a few. of the sources on the progress that's not. being here you're miracle i'm sitting now i'm settled down. i get a house i've got a job i've got a car. and. the struggle to struggle continues but i leave. a huge distance from but i did. of course huge histories. that's it for this week you can find out more about joseph incredible story and watch other films from the series by going to the rewind page

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