entry. and betray. a son's quest for justice sometimes i feel like i'm following i meet are looking for an illusion. al-jazeera world goes in search of the truth about the 2 new zealand independence fighter less harshly to. follow al-jazeera. than. 2016 was the deadliest year on record for migrants and refugees attempting to get into europe. over 5000 people died between libya and italy or turkey and greece. the following film was 1st broadcast in 2007 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. to. get 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 500 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 so-to. spain has also cordoned it off from playing comparison with another war in another place so your me. but i see that. the list of. 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. but 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 off moroccan to send. the town of so to is a geographical anomaly. of mainland africa 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 $1099.00. out. of all 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. as 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 gate of europe. africa. can feel the local color take a 2nd think that the little problematic. what the migrants find is a double fence. most of it paid for by the european union. 4 meters high 6 kilometers long. cable dental balance on the said. in this article the only. effective are they are they not of their own model i mean if you really go. to church what the migrants also find is a holding center or their status as refugees is decided that typically takes

months it's not a frozen but there are straight. through to museum she. wants to longest walk. to commute city of. him or lose more yet because you see. him off the path to. suit our city to city as we see is if. you. google enough to look good or merely. remove the market. for those who arrive often come from far further afield from other continents even. a game.

because. 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 15th century which for some gives the issue a religious dimension. and yet. here is a. little bit. you know a little. north and. gallant. in the meantime.

we're going to be the most you know one of them when there's you know. they want to come in. on the surface say it sure appears to be yes cosmopolis in the city. but through the middle of it runs a mile below. the invisible. divides it's $70000.00 inhabitants along religious lines. and the let's see. a shot for them of the that's a. beautiful souls and then. you.

see 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 well hard to say which is muslims live. and those muslims who feel marginalized make no secret of where their allegiances lie. they pray for the health and prosperity of the king. the king of rock and.

roll all over. television was leaving the scene and that's. a look at the world who work. full time in new amman who are still. videophone i know whom. i met. with the think i'll see the thoughts of us or may not be buffeted here in europe on a home. part of a home i'll. feel heavier medina at any corner. and the thought i thought than a city here here let's talk for i'll tell you have many units that will see me i let you know you know. there was the moment.

it's a scene of 1st communion or often played out in mainland spain the priest officiating doesn't see any divisions between same as christians and muslims. no no you have to come to that if you're going to get a lot of life you need so many people sitting in the door sort of thing will manage it all all that he and they have been a lot of that i think into only that it some we go to the island in the morning dorian i could you get a more of that in august you know this i will add nothing that i have not been to the moment about maceda you know what i feel what happened in the last you know all that is what i mean you know my mind on the bad you know the fat intake of a low income which i'm out of money that you know i you and i you know it but i still favor vessel faith but of which one of the money that i that i think that would be better than. the city of souter. 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 berwyn war. while those walls relied on heights and guards to keep outsiders and 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. under words. i'm. doing.

right here i wonder. if my being. still rather. difficult is. those who still chomps 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. sort of what i meant that he meant until i say before going to. it because i don't think i think i said that he said i go there so i said but i go ahead what i mean on that i feel that they would like that and that is the stability of the superb bicycle nothing i gave you that book on the good things that we have so by sea.

level data i do a little bit on what quality can that be if it is. placed on me in there because music a thought i want to let other time in. 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 card is. that on the 25th of october 2003 local man was shocked by the sight of 35 male corpses

washed ashore close to his home 12 of them were from the same rockabilly. to see. the corpse of young people. here in the fistfight. for 4 hours for it was a very. heavy experience. when we found that people we take our cars with our own money and we went to morrow we were to find their people of france how they are in bed he 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 ever to shim tame data he took courses back.

to get me for the man. who is a schoolteacher decided to take action if found it a charity. so only that he that 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. easily that you have your town we all are volunteers we're spending our own money we put our cars at our own work we don't have theft of. money public money because we've seen that people have to shamed inside when people are chained inside it is able to change the world.

and the change that rafael 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 perils. even know when. to cross a router it was very dangerous and that many of their friends and parents were dead because of that sound of their young people from one salah wanted to cross browser 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 2000 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 that others can emulate we wanted to make from their home seller they are good places to leave because it is how good the place is. only if. we are started building a small clinic or classroom for the children. we have started to give in the. grassroots in order to avoid to adopt the little children work in the in the country because we are there to pick up this birth turned up a little she and remain in the school again because if they are working in the country here 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 governments of europe. souter's barbed wire barrier may for a time at least stop the flow. but it does nothing to remove the injury underlying causes. a different gear as. far as something artificial. and at the end it is not going to a stop people it is not going to stop or even ration it is can control illegal immigration but it is not going to a stop. in order to stop illegal immigration we have to shane our mentality. the mentality have to shane too in africa

because they are in africa they have to understand that they have to work in protecting their all me interested in developing their own economies. is a radical show. shift enough thinking realize ation the wars. sooner or later the difference in so far is going down sooner or later because france fancies a top people. from many years i go up to no people they may break. easy going to hop in their time in the future so france is. not to the. east to all crime i work hard because mainframes it's place on the inside.

the film you've just seen was 1st brought cost almost 10 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 bodies of african migrants began washing ashore on the tourist beaches of the spanish canary i lose. your. response was to stiffen its border security but despite all the effort and expense spent on beefing up its buddhas 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 you 102014 at least 14 african migrants drowned when trying to swim their way from morocco to spain. these pictures show spanish buddha gods firing rubber bullets and smoke canisters to would survive this as they swim across the border. those who made it a life were to put it 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 claim their response was proportional. today this is no longer an issue isolated in a faraway 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 attesting europe's buddhas by the sea from libya to italy and from taki to greece and then continuing overland to europe's more affluent countries. these scenes of from hungary as refugees attempt to travel west we are humans where the humanity where the world to see us look everyone here they are fatherless we don't need anything just a troll it's. not. just good luck on evil it's a. good joke. in response europe is building moves today there are 5 existing fences across the continent with at least one of the 6 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. there are more refugees and migrants traveling around the ward 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 world 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 the border in the sea i was standing on one leg and raising my son on the other while still in order to get him up from the water because the water was still here.

for the. fields and for me to the poles good kids are renowned for their courage on the final. one finds out what it types to join the elite brigade. on al-jazeera. to his supporters hungary's prime minister is a guardian of europe's borders manning the ramparts against migrant holds. to others viktor orban is an authoritarian demagogue whose far right agenda poses

a significant threat to democratic values people in power investigates the leader taking his country to extremes hungary europe's bad boy on a. battle in doha with a look at our main stories here on al-jazeera the united states has recorded the world's worst single day of the coronavirus spend demick with close to 1200 deaths on thursday at the same time more than 30000 new cases where recorded wartime powers are now being used to get urgently needed equipment out to desperate hospitals present donald trump signed a defense production act ordering private companies to make masks ventilators and other medical gear new york's mayor is urging people to wear.