you're free to march for justice. starts november. w. . this is d w news live from berlin migrant workers exploited on italian farms do you view investigates the dark side of the country's vast fruit and vegetable industry workers from india are scared to speak out but charities say that middle men are craving off their wages and that many pickers take drugs to survive the punishing gore condition and it's also coming up washington revoked the visa of suspects in

the death of the journalist jamal khashoggi meanwhile the saudis rulers offer condolences to construct the son despite allegations that they ordered the killing . in the champions league a job well done for by or munich in greece they were turned to winning ways in europe beating a ek athens to nil to go joint top of their group we'll tell you more about this and the rest of last night's matches. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program if you've bought fresh produce in europe there's a strong chance that it may have come from an italian farm but there's a dark side to the juicy plums and ripe tomatoes that many of us enjoy on a regular basis d.w. has spoken to migrant workers in the latina area there we found exhausting work

conditions poor pay and allegations that organized crime gangs are preying on pickers in india. the now and a half from rome the villas hidden behind these high walls and hedges are vacation homes for well off italians but there's also shadow side to this fertile region the projects grown here is sold in supermarkets throughout europe but the laborers who harvest the fruits and vegetables then only a few euros per hour some of them have come from as far away as india. singh has been working in latina for twelve years he's one of nearly eight hundred thousand sikhs from punjab working in this region friends from his village back home who told him he could earn good money in italy's agriculture sector he knew life here wouldn't be easy but he found it so challenging at the beginning but he often considered returned to india. called

gold jewelry belonged to my wife and sister to pay for the trip here. i thought i'd earn the money back quickly and retrieve the jewelry. to pay off the loan we had to sell the gold instead. almost everyone who comes here goes through the same thing. reality is very different from what we expected. in. the living and working conditions often miserable the official minimum wage is about nine euros the farmers pay less than a third of that many indians work seven days a week during harvest time up to twelve to thirteen hours a day. we were free in india i had my own business. so i could come to work late and go home early if i had better things to do here

it's different here you're only paid for the areas you work. but i'm doing better than others. she actually seeing has paid off his debts so he no longer has to share a small flat with four or five other workers as he did before most are too afraid to speak on camera investigators say the laborers are trapped in their illegal jobs at the mercy of criminal gangs a majority of them have paid thousands of euros to people smugglers in exchange for forged papers and passage to italy as a result many end up as one of the laborers who need years to get out of debt analysts say this practice is widespread throughout italy where. the farm workers take drugs like amphetamines opium and muscle relaxants especially at the beginning to cope with the punishing work conditions. you are in place prostitution people are trying to imagine being bent over picking radishes for fourteen hours

a day with a boss standing over you saying you know work work or work and you've got all your . contribution. your body and soul would burn out pretty fast main page investigators say the racket involves middlemen who seek out laborers in key part of their wages and dictate their work hours all of which is illegal in italy. and there's hardly a business in the agricultural sector that isn't part of the system one of the biggest radish producers in europe allowed us to film on their premises we confront the head of the company with the allegations about the middlemen and the exploitation of their workers. to none of that's true that contradicts our company philosophy. if we found anyone was doing this we would fire them immediately because i mean we're not among the firms that exploit their workers it's. not proper benefits or even. the union workers

insist that this company also pays its laborers below the minimum wage. and that middle men act if they're too it's one person's word against another the workers themselves won't comment they want to keep their job. singh was able to bring his wife and children to italy a few months ago in the evenings of the labor has come for dinner including men who've lived here for years in the hope of bringing these here despite the difficulties they say they're determined to stay because the money they earn in italy is still far more than what they'd be paying in india. and that's a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world hurricane wilma has hit the pacific coast of mexico as a category three storm packing winds of nearly two hundred kilometers per hour towns in the storm's path were mostly evacuated as it closed in but some people

were forced to seek shelter in public buildings the storm is expected to bring torrential rains as it moves further inland. at least twenty people many of them football fans have been hurt after an escalator in the row metro collapse at talian police say that most of the injured were c.s.k. in moscow fans heading to their team's champions league game against a u.s. roma fire officials say that the accident happened about an hour before kickoff. there could be at least one winner of the world's largest lottery prize in the u.s. state of south carolina lottery officials report one ticket being sold with the exact numbers to win the jackpot of more than one point six billion dollars so far no one has come forward to claim the grand prize and there could be additional winning tickets sold in other states. the united states says that it will revoke origin i visas of twenty one saudis who it has linked to the killing of

journalist jamal. it's an embarrassing turnaround for washington after president trump at first took pains to defend its key ally in the middle east but as turkey revealed more details about the murder in istanbul the u.s. has been forced to change track. surrounded by lawmakers in the oval office about the killing of jamal khashoggi the u.s. president. so what he really messed up. and they had the worst cover up ever. and word should have stopped is at the deal standpoint when they thought about it because whoever thought of that idea. i think is in big trouble. the u.s. says it's putting together its own intelligence about the killing and has identified some individuals behind it it's barring entry to twenty one suspects

from the saudi government secret services and royal court but washington remains reluctant to get tough on a key ally and a major economic partner in particular trump is worried about losing a saudi arms deal to competitors i will tell you that russia and china would love to have that military order and i can say to my democrat friends do they would love this is one hundred ten billion dollars worth of military. yet some are taking a stand over his murder many western firms boycotted the kingdom's premier investment event which began on tuesday despite the brave face put on by crime prince mohammed bin salman these are difficult days for the saudis. we are going through. a crisis of short resulted for. a. very

good actor or an incident that took place in turkey nobody in the kingdom. justified or explained. earlier saudi media released extraordinary images the crown prince and king solomon meeting face to face with brother sun independent sources say the same son has been barred from leaving the kingdom since last year as a result of his father's writing and many of directly linking the crown prince with the general staff. chief among the kingdom's critics the turkish president. he told parliament that turkey has strong evidence the murder in the saudi consulate in istanbul was premeditated and savage he called for the highest ranking of those responsible to face justice. and for more let's bring in

correspondent dorian jones who is standing by in istanbul dorian as we just heard president said that the killing was premeditated that they have strong evidence to support that why didn't he put forward though more evidence yesterday like the alleged audiotape for example what could the strategy be. well indeed but i think the president did just enough he lay out what they say is powerful circumstantial evidence these three teams that were involved in the killing of sean g. and the careful preparations ahead of that which indicated this was a carefully premeditated planned and in fact for now at least does have the it appears the international community behind them in their in their narrative of events isolating riyadh but he didn't use the nuclear option this talk of these audio and elated video tape recording the last minutes of khashoggi which according to turkish investigators show that he was tortured executed and then his body

dismembered this is in many ways turkey's most powerful piece of leverage at the same time releasing it would possibly compromise its intelligence services and on the line that it was surveilling possibly the saudi consulate so encore is keeping that back in its back pocket knows it's a very powerful piece of leverage not only on riyadh but also on washington and for now it doesn't feel it needs to use that car and is it carefully this carefully corporal for i plan to further isolate. and to extract the most concessions and to get to the bottom of the truth when it comes to the approach of washington dorian and we know the cia director now in istanbul but it looks like the u.s. generally speaking is taking a slower approach it's been said that they're still in the fact finding stage is there potential for conflict here. i think quite the opposite i think what we're slowly seeing now is that washington and slowly coming together the fact that the cia chief came to a just ahead of the one speech one delivered what many was forced people consider

was quite a restrained speech he didn't target the crown prince mohammed bin solomon by name that will be a relief to washington in particular but the same time we see now the trunk does appear to be moving closer to uncle stance he's talking about this being the worst cover up he said that people should be held to a. i'm going to interview with the wall street journal on tuesday for the first time he indicated the idea that he the mohamed bin some of the crown prince could have been involved in the killing that will be seen as very significant on uncross side this is a long term plan on chords play of isolating reality getting washington on its side and passed and also seeing the benefits of. crushing riyadh and the building closer ties with washington at the same time washing uncle really believes it's in the driving seat at the moment daryn jones in istanbul with the very latest thank you. for more than four years into the simmering conflict in eastern ukraine nearly two

thousand people have been killed by landmines alone no one knows how many mines were laid in the chaotic early stages of the fighting today the country sees more casualties from mines than almost anywhere else on earth it's a problem that is expected to get worse as displaced people slowly return to their homes our correspondent nick connelly has been to meet the people behind efforts to clear those mines. it may look calm now but just a few years ago these fields so intense fighting between ukrainian government troops and russian backed separatists. over and over again the front lines shifted each time the retreating troops left mines and booby traps behind them. it's now up to civilians to pick up the pieces payload trust is an international ngo and the world's largest humanitarian mine clearance organization the challenge faces in ukraine are unlike any other conflict. so business it's not just on the i don't

know what makes you queen different is that we have a real problem with tripwire traps our organisation hasn't come across anything like them in other countries are experts have had to come up with new ways of dealing with them. it's back breaking work. a grenade and a trip wire that's all it takes a few summers after the traps were laid the weeds have grown tall making them almost impossible to spot clearing these traps is as much about touch as it is about sight. there's no way of predicting how far you'll get in there it all depends on the vegetation. sometimes your minutes twenty meters in a day sometimes it will be just ten fifty years our priority and all of this in the distance the shooting continues the current frontline is just a few kilometers away. these people are searching for anti-tank

mines the empty personnel mine so characteristic of conflicts from yemen to mozambique a less widespread in ukraine. it takes one hundred fifty kilograms to set off this kind of tank mine person on foot wouldn't be enough. but a tractor very definitely would this may be a war zone but the rhythms of the farming year continue this is all that's left of the tractor the vessel of was using to plough back in twenty fifteen soldiers had told him that the field was safe. i lost consciousness when i came around i saw that i was on fire i tried to get out of the tractor but i couldn't they pulled me out through the back window and then put the fire out. what. have i done for you when i woke up in hospital they told me that only one mine had gone off that one more of them underneath me and when they came to get me out of the

tractor they had to drive over the mines to. but still sustained eighty percent burns on his legs three years and several operations later he's still in chronic pain it's not clear whether or not he'll ever be able to work again. back at the sites they found a grenade that's failed to go off n.g.o.s like halo trust aren't allowed to dispose of ordinance themselves instead they must wait for the military to collect them and that can take weeks. ten twenty or sometimes just five meters a day the progress here is painstaking no one can say with any certainty how long it will take to find all the mines that were laid in the chaos of the early stages of the war but left untouched these mines have the potential to maim and kill the people of this region for decades to go. sports news the champions league returned on tuesday night and to take us through all of the drama ed mccambridge

from sports we have to talk about buying the winning in athens let's begin with that does it mean the mini crisis is over well personally i don't think they're out of the woods just yet their problems haven't really been so much in europe this season of struggle domestically. and they were actually on a six game unbeaten streak away in europe and they made it seven last night against a pretty poor inside to be perfectly honest i mean it's always a pretty fiery atmosphere in the stadium but they and they struggled a little bit at the start but they made the breakthrough in the end i made it seven seven wins in a series seven games in a row away in europe and they actually put in joint top of their group with like i say it's been going ok for them in europe so far this season but what they do next domestically will be the real test of the crisis that was only one of the matches last night we know that there were seven others talk about you know a lot of flipping the channels there what was your pick of the evening what were some big stories going into the into the match day so christiane and all those returned to old trafford with the events as was one of the big stories they won one

nil he didn't actually go to school she himself elsewhere of course holders reale. well in action as well they got a two one win but it was actually a another boom is leading a club hoffenheim which provided most of the thrills last night three all draw on courtesy of some pretty slapstick defending. as we can see there in the pictures but managed to get two of the goals and put them up to one after a pretty poor start but in the lead on fight back got them back on the front foot and it was only a very very late goal from show in town which actually rescued a point at the end of the game and it was funny actually because you know all those men said that despite the fact that he thought they were basically three own goals of his i conceded they were absolutely awful but he was really really angry with the referee at the end and said they should get a bit more time because of the number of goals because you think they could have actually gone on and won that for three ok so let's look forward at that to go madrid facing off what's expected there well this is a really tasty time and i think a lot of football fans can be really excited for tonight dortmund of course one of

the form teams in europe but up against that same with real pedigree in a flood to come adrift they've done very well in the tournament in recent years and we're actually going to hear from the dortmund coach lucien farber here he thinks he's got a tough task tonight for his team. and mexico has been one of the best teams in europe for the last seven or eight years they were always among the first three in a spanish league that even won the title once they've reached the champions league final twice they're always up there they're always competing does sides even. so i mean he seems wary there of the troubles that atletico can cause them he is of course and he should be because i feel very good team with some of the world's best players the likes of and swann greaseman a short to cause i'm a bit of trouble but i think it was actually going to be quietly confident tonight like i say his team has really been on fire domestically at least so far this season they've got the likes of mark arroyo and jane sanchez firing goals in on the regular and i'd like to say it's going to be really tasty taranaki expect a lot of goals we'll see how they deal i know you'll be watching mccambridge thank

you so much. environmental ists have long warned of the problems with plastic waste and the danger that could eventually wind up in the food chain well now scientists from austria say that they have detected micro plastics in human waste samples what isn't clear yet is what effect if any the particles can have on our bodies. the impact of plastic waste on the world's oceans and as a consequence on the global food chain is so broad in scope that there is no end in sight but one thing's clear micro plastics are taking up what appears to be a long term residence in human beings that's what scientists have concluded in a study they presented at a medical conference in vienna eight volunteers from europe in asia who took part in a study spent a week subsisting on food packed in plastic and drinks from plastic bottles they

also consumed fish and seafood. the stool samples of the participants revealed particles of micro plastics but it's not clear whether they remain in the body that hasn't yet been determined. i can't say what kind of impact this is had on human health it's too early to make that call but there are studies on animals that clearly show micro plastics can be absorbed in an organism these were studies of fish and mammals that ingested micro plastics orally and the substances showed up in the animal's blood and in their livers. that leave enough rest but. it has long been suspected that plastic components that have entered the food chain can lead to inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract and possibly other harmful effects researchers say further studies are important. and on the same subject the e.u. parliament will be discussing single use plastics later today it's hoping to convince a u. member states to adopt tougher guidelines more on that later but as you can see the

standing next to me now and we're having a look at some shocking numbers actually coming out from germany's biggest lender true. as opposed to a sixty five percent decline year on year profits for the third quarter with earnings coming in at two hundred twenty nine million euros all of the banks divisions recorded lower yields with revenues in the particular important fixed income business that's government company bonds down fifteen percent nevertheless in a letter to the banks employees c.e.o. and their savings it was on track to a profitable year for the first time since twenty four team once one of europe's leading banks georgia has struggled since the financial crisis in the past ten years the banks says have lost around ninety percent of their value. the rather muted response from washington over the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi is drawing criticism faced with mounting calls for tough measures

by u.s. lawmakers across the political spectrum the state department that is now revoking the visas of twenty one saudi individuals donald trump referred to the killings killing as the worst cover up in the history of cover ups indicating that he has just come to me poor p.r. work after the. intent on protecting arms deals and economic times to saudi arabia president told trump says he's prepared to talk to congress about further sanctions against the kingdom. but i would prefer that we don't use as retribution cancelling one hundred ten billion dollars worth of work which means six hundred thousand jobs but as global outrage over the question actually killing mounts so do trumps numbers. i don't want to be. i don't want to lose one hundred ten billion dollars in terms of the past but it's really four hundred fifty billion if

you include other than military. so how many jobs is it and how much cash is from overstating because the silence is otherwise so deafening the u.s. is giving the impression that it's so dependent on saudi arabia it's simply can't afford to take any action at all. italian government wants to implement a citizen's wage next year it is a flagship policy of italian deputy prime minister luigi meyer's anti establishment five star movement which has governed its only with the right wing leader since june the basic income scheme is aimed at pulling the poorest italians of poverty and bolster the economy those eligible will receive a payout of up to seven hundred eighty euros per month without conditions attached critics fear the ten billion euro initiative will destabilize the economy because it is largely financed by debts. inside a job center in a poor naples neighborhood dozens of people are filling out the same form. a team

of five employees helps them but they use paper clips and piles of folders more than computers. soon the job centers will be launching a new welfare policy but no one's explained the details to local officials. to be able to see faculty by which it and we've met two or three times and labor minister luigi di maggio asked us to explain our difficulties and that but every region has different problems not getting all of these if they didn't explain anything about the basic income scheme or how it will be implemented in the job centers i mean got a. bit of a basis for the outside amount of our lives says he has no hope the job center will find him work on monday and it was the same for my father he was signed up here for more than thirty years and never received a phone call never i wouldn't mind. the unemployed greengrocer gets only

a few hundred euros per month but under the new scheme his benefits will be much more generous up to seven hundred eighty euros per month. the government plans include investing large sums into modernizing job centers which will verify that recipients are actively looking for work. but currently only three percent of job seekers find employment with the help of the centers for new policies designed to lift five million italians out of poverty it's part of italy's proposed big spending budget aimed at boosting private consumption economic growth and tax revenues. but if the scheme fails some observers warn it could trigger another euro zone financial crisis comes out. of business. news coming live from there's more news coming up at the top of the hour and in the meantime you can get all the latest news information. on our web site that's of.

course very much watching. and. with all the while becoming a city club in isolation is a megatrend. the numbers of people living in cities soaring and it challenges growing to how do you plan to make. the future transportation concepts feel like it is affordable living space for everyone on

a table. is faulty and all electric s.u.v. . smocks e.q. is small and stylish is it practical reply to electric runabout to the test. drive it sixteen it. was a human brain cataclysm. the first global disaster of the twentieth century. one . marks the hundredth anniversary of its

end. what is humankind learned from the great war. because it learned anything about. nineteen eighteen not forgotten in the w.'s november focus. welcome to global three thousand today we're going to take a look at life in cities have been sent his of booming particularly those in asia and africa. if the world's population now lives in cities

a figure that's focused to hit two thirds by twenty fifty and already there's a serious lack of decent affordable living space.