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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 guard. when that happens they also into detention scientists in libya while that 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 are safe 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 this year 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 by a messaging services they have been interred in a libyan migrant camp for 2 years they talk to us by voice message we change their voices for their own protection. we have been tortured with skid with suffering and dying from various diseases. we were kidnapped we became victims of violence where starving people have died 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 amina to increase the pressure her parents were forced to listen to it on the phone. the whole what. they changed me up hung me up and tortured me with electric shocks. they tortured men with electric shocks to their genitals and women of with shocks to their press pts until they cried and screamed loudly. they did it so they would get the money faster than had established as a possible floor. the torture 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 again he says when he was in prison he was sort of 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. horrific stories we've been hearing from refugees inside this. they've seen and experienced things they're going to have imagined before now here they are the 1st time that life is not easy here to hope for the greatness that. many hope to reach . we managed to meet someone who profits from the refugees suffering he calls

himself of the lizzie's occupation my grandmother 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. when was it the women they say i spent money on you what am i supposed to do when i want my money back and i want to profit on top of that that was when they 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. mariel who you just saw in that report is with me now good to have you here. you met refugees in this you would spend time in libya tell me what those of qantas was like what struck you most truck me of the more impressed me

a rather the resilience and the strength of the refugees that i am and most of them already in the home countries they endured physical and so called logical abuse a woman that i talked to as 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 in a sea these people and they told me all the stories you know over at interviews

over i don't know one on one and a half hours and you know then you have this feeling well 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 the for what we're hearing it's a safe haven because it's the brutality we people experience in libya is seemingly not there but what is it like in the in the camps initiate 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 they are now for 2 years they are the 1st evacuees in 2017 the program start of 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 hard 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 the basics like food and clean water the medical treatment is as lacking so i met a woman who was raped 4 months ago and libya and she's still bleeding she still didn't see a doctor because their 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. people just thinking wait it out here and then get to europe is anybody think about maybe heading back home to the country at the coming from no because most of them come from you know from countries where they can't go back because this war was violence so the only option is to wait for european countries or also canada and the u.s. these are the countries the un is cooperating with in this program and they wait for these countries to offer

a capacity for peace so i guess 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 miller thank you for that reporting. our next story 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 of granma. for auction ojt try 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. and if that wasn't enough she found out that her eggs husband infected with hiv for i didn't have the inner strength to go on a mother sent her to. them barbarians affectionately call their grandmothers. sit on so-called friendship benches and just listen to people one of them is google 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 burned recognize their potential and started to train a few of them every community in africa is in fact every community in the world has 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 to thousands millions of people the grandmothers on the benches don't wait for patients to ekta flee seek out people in their community who need help 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 her 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 is the go go on the bench saved her life the go go help for right except the situation and find ways to cope with it successfully and he said i'm going out i've been a widow 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 the go-go's as 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 being a sceptic as always you can catch all stories on our website and facebook page now this here behind senegal's stunning new mosque it seats 60000 people say to be in

august and west africa will be inaugurated on friday so we gave you lots of images off it despite our. welcome to the what is the game here for a dull the talk about some of the soldiers that's a whole. you don't want.

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american are his tom sachs has a major retrospective on in germany with the spotlight on his cell service and his d.i.y. methods. october 1st is in full swing and we stopped by the visa in munich to check out one of the oldest attractions there the shish 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 1969 it 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.