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hello i'm christine want to welcome to news africa it's good to have you along many migrants trying to get to europe have boarded boats distant for the continent only to be intercepted by the libyan coast. when that happens they are sent to detention scientists in libya while better arrangement is part of a deal signed between the e.u. and libya in short the europeans are paying the libyans to hold migrants back now the conditions in those libyan detention camps all set to be inhumane with reports off torture and rape some who've escaped the libya detention centers and indeed the country end up hitting celts to initiate it's said to be the safest neighboring country that is receptive to migrants recently visited refugees in their share a warning that the next report on tales footage that some may find distressing. these images were recorded by refugees in different camps in libya they show appalling conditions human rights activists say the images are credible we came

into direct contact with 2 refugees i am messaging services they have been interred in a libyan migrant camp for 2 years they talk to us by a voice message we change their voices for their own protection. we've been tortured with scared we're suffering and dying from various diseases. we were kidnapped we became victims of violence we're starving people have died our lives are disgusting so we appeal for a voiceless voice to be heard. we are innocent refugees living in a land of hell. in using our we speak to refugees who went through this hell. one of them is 18 years old we call her a mina she was kidnapped while fleeing from somalia and taken to a hidden building in the libyan desert many other star on the journey across the

sahara i mean us kidnappers demanded $8000.00 for her release they tortured emina to increase the pressure at parents by forced to listen to it on the phone. they changed me up hung me up and tortured me with electric shocks. they tortured men with electric shocks to their genitals and women and with shocks to their pressed until they cried and screamed loudly. they did it so they would get the money faster than how to stand she. the torch a systematic many other refugees describe similar methods. about 1600 refugees live in this camp salt of the sahara they were all rescued from libya. this man from sudan doesn't want to reveal his true identity either and

asks that we call him he says when he was in prison he will sort the good. people came and bought us like slaves. and they said we let you work and you get money for so. that in the end you didn't get any money. they said you're a slave you're a black man they even woke us up in the middle of the not to torture us to go with . the horrific stories we're hearing from refugees inside these. they've seen and experienced things they're going to have imagined before now here they are the 1st time that life's not easy here too all they hope for is a quick reset and. many hope to. we managed to meet someone who profits from the refugees suffering he calls himself of the lousiest occupation migrants model for $500.00 he brings migrants across the sahara to libya but if

they can't pay the driver sell them to torture chambers adela's use understands why they do that. or not is it the women they say i spent money on duty what am i supposed to do i want my money back and i want profit on top of that that was when i started torturing people. we often hear refugees say that they're not put off by stories like this the smugglers other only hope and they're prepared to pay any price even if it means risking their lives. you just saw in that report is with me now good to have you here. you met refugees in asia who had spent time in libya tell me what those of qantas were like what struck you most struck me that or impressed me a rather the resilience and the strength of the refugees that i meant most of them already in the home countries they endured physical and psychological abuse

a woman that i talked to she was from darfur in sudan and she had to witness the the execution of her husband and she decided to flee so she traveled through through those charges that she saw people dying falling off the cars because the cars have to move very fast through the desert she saw people dying of thirst she ended up in a torture chamber where she was tortured and raped for over months after she got out of that she was finally on a rubber dinghy on her way to you know over the mediterranean to europe she thought and then the boat was intercepted by the libyan coast guards which are actually trained and financed by the european union so she was brought back to libya in a detention center and then finally after months again she was she was evacuated by united say are tunisia there so when i see these people and they tell me all the stories you know over at interviews over i don't know one and one and a half hours and you know then you have this feeling all this person a so strong because she still has hope she still is striving for better life that

is striking and i want to talk about the conditions in the camp in. what we're hearing it's a safe haven because it's the brutality we people experience in the view is seemingly not there but what is it like in the in the camps in asia these camps are run by the aid agencies yes. so 1st of course the refugees are relieved they are in safety finally but then of course some of them there are there are now for 2 years they are the 1st evacuees in 2017 the program started and they are disappointed because they were told in 3 months the process will be over you will be rest resettled to a safe country but this didn't happen only happened for some of them. but the conditions are not very comfortable it's super hot it's up to 50 degrees in the town so people are trying to find shadow outside in the desert that's not easy of course there are basics like food and clean water the medical treatment is as lacking so i met a woman who was raped or months ago in libya and she's still bleeding she still

didn't see a doctor because they only male doctors and she wouldn't you know examine her in a proper way so these are problems actually that they're facing in their everyday life ok so i mean the conditions they are far from from ideal but talk to me about what happens often is she as you've already hinted some people were told you would leave off for 3 months they're still in the camps of people just thinking wait it out here and then get to europe is anybody think about maybe heading back home to the country that they coming from no because most of them come from you know from countries where they can't go back because there's war why violence so the only option is to wait for european countries or also canada and the u.s. these other countries the u.n. is cooperating with in this program and they wait for these countries to offer a capacity for these so yes there were some countries in europe who offered that but only hundreds of for hundreds of people right but it's not enough ok mario

loyola thank you for that reporting. an extraordinary is in zimbabwe where one in 4 people suffer from depression and anxiety now there are only 10 psychiatrists in the country of 13000000 people so how does such a country pioneer a mental health program that's been adopted in other countries all i'll say is it involves a bench and a team off grandmother. for auction oid tried to kill herself 4 times she was desperate it all happened a few years ago when her life spun out of control. and my husband threw me out of the house i had moved back in with my mother when i arrived here i was unhappy then my younger sister died and i became responsible for her 2 kids. that was too much

for me. running. the food and if that wasn't enough she found out that her ex-husband infected with hiv for i didn't have the inner strength to go on a mother center to. zimbabwe and affectionately call their grandmothers. sit on so-called friendship benches and just listen to people one of them is go go beauty america she helps people in the motion of the stress free of charge. for them i don't tell them what they should do. i encourage them to reflect to think about their situation. and then together we find a way to solve their problem. real therapists are hard to come by in crisis ridden zimbabwe but there are lots of grandmothers they have time on their hands and can

help with their wisdom and patience. psychotherapist dixon she recognized their potential and started to train a few of them every community in africa was in fact every community in the world as goggles imagine if we could just tap into that population really empower them with the necessary skills and provide them with the support they could reach out to thousands millions of people the grandmothers on the benches don't wait for patients the eck to flee seek out people in the community who need help she been there realized how important that is after one of his patients committed suicide when i spoke to erica's mother on over the phone you know when she told me that erica taken her own life by suicide i asked why they hadn't come to see me at the hospital and erica his mother responded by saying they didn't have you know the $15.00 for bus fare to come to see me for rice's the go go

on the bench saved her life the go go help for a ride to accept a situation and find ways to cope with it successfully and he said don't bring out i don't know we know today i'm not ashamed anymore when i go to the hospital to get my h.i.v. vincent. and as far as my sister's children are concerned i accept the fact that they're mentally disabled it's ok now to go goods are so successful that the concept is now being exported the 1st benches have already been set up in new york city. remarkable isn't it all that is it for now from africa as always you can catch all stories on our website and facebook page now this here behind senate stunning new mosque it seats 30000 people say to be in august in west africa it will be an old arrangement on friday so we gave you lots of images to expect out.

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d.i.y. methods. october fest is in full swing and we stopped by the visa in munich to check out one of the oldest attractions there the show variety theater marquee. well it was exactly 50 years ago on thursday that the iconic beatles album abbey road was released and people were celebrating today in london to commemorate an album that many people feel was the beatles greatest. back in 1998 shot to number one in the u.k. where it proceeded to spend a total of 17 weeks hit songs that still resonate today. and my colleague melissa holroyd has joined me in the studio thanks for coming in melissa to tell us some more big occasion for music fans obviously what's happening for this that the 1st 3 well at abbey road studios itself at the.