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w africa. every 2 seconds a person is forced to flee that home nearly 71000000 people around the world have been forcibly displaced more than ever before one is marion saudia who now lives in berlin every month she sends money to venezuela so that her family doesn't go hungry. i am. moving to follow. all. that i know messi go. on. well i know what i have to say and i want to stick up like i said get out at

least i mean. i don't i mean that i could be one of the by the book that the money is going to bankrupt but. let's have all. known do nothing well so i know you care don't have one to go but it's a market out. ok but i'm going i'm going to see. ok. millions of venezuelans have left the country fleeing poverty and despair even though venezuela has the largest proven petroleum reserves in the world. venezuela was once south america's richest nation now it's a commie has collapsed sparking one of the worst migrant crises of recent yes.

i know i. 'd say so but he is a venezuelan journalist who's been documenting the crisis. over the lot of people are going to jump on their head come out of orbit on whatever level they're all in on a level that got them in the very thing they want to and and. oh yes yeah they're your own you know the next morning the

level of thing and you know they are an advantage of. a kilo of meat 430000 believe us more than twice the country's average monthly wage many people are angry and afraid protests have swept the country in the capital caracas and elsewhere security forces have responded with violence hundreds of people killed. last. we are able to determine that some people were killed because their names were on the government's food assistance list but if the people in charge of those lists inform the security authorities that they taking part in anti-government protests. but if. it's very worrying. the lists are a form of social control they determine who has

a right to food. and they determine who's for or against moderates government. then if. they want to. say so but this is embodied in us the state in the northwest of the country as editor of the online news site and he's taken on a powerful opponent the government of president nicolas maduro. in thrall to money and greed the country's oil riches have proven to be a cuss. all across refinery is 300 kilometers east of caracas the country's abundant oil reserves are belied by the desolation here venezuela is not alone in this paradox

other nations original oil such as nigeria and golan sudan are ruled by a corrupt elite while ordinary people live in better poverty corruption and mismanagement helped fuel the instability that drives people to flee countries in the top 10 of transparency international's corruption perceptions and next major contributors to the international migrant crisis places like afghanistan syria south sudan and somalia. in venezuela where the crisis has reached. stunna same time mentions poverty has always been a fact of life here but when oil prices were high then president chavez launched ambitious social programs awash in petro dollars the country also continue to take on debt corruption further drain the public coffers. crash of 24 team was the final blow. thanks it's the most vulnerable who have

suffered the most. her. lives with her 7 children in a slum on venezuela's caribbean coast her. whole you. also it's a. battle my husband went to peru because of the crisis where you are that he went there to send us help the rebellion. if he hadn't gone there we would have died of hunger. than they were on one of them we would have starved to death that sunday when a lot of them. cut up. i . see a little lost some money when he has no work for

a week he can't send me any money. but as in we have only one meal a day i try to feed the children at 2 in the afternoon. and they spend the rest of the day sleeping. pill me and i get nothing when they ask me for food. but they understand when i tell them we don't have any money there sometimes they cry. it's not easy when your children beg you for food but you have nothing to give them. that it's hard really hard. place. the united nations food and agriculture organization has warned that venezuela may be on the brink of famine and. like many in the country may leckie hard as children

haven't been to school in months they can't afford the bus fare. near leckie hut i goes to the supermarket once a week but only when her husband has sent money from peru. she can only get the banas sesa g.'s. others in venezuela can't afford food at all. people with family abroad are the lucky ones it's a better irony the more venezuelans flee abroad the more money flows back home. that's been a boon for president nicolas maduro. his government needs hard cash. all accounts belonging to the state owned oil company gave a son in the united states have been frozen deep to sanctions.

then without the remittances sent by migrants the state would be unable to import even basic foodstuffs and medicines. then as well and so believing in drugs being hungover collapse of the health care system and soaring child mortality goes with. travel documents across the border to colombia illegally the brain drain is an especially better blow for many of those fleeing are doctors lawyers and teachers highly educated people that are badly needed at home.

by june 2019 some 4000000 venezuelans had left the country out of a total population of just 30000000. venezuela was once considered a beacon of prosperity caracas its glittering modern capital. corruption didn't begin with president chavez who died in 20 for a teen but in the 20 years since chavez 1st took office corruption and mismanagement of spiraled out of control. one of the lynchpins of the system was rafael ramirez he served as minister of energy on the chavez and at the same time as president of the p.t. this up oil company for years his loyalty to chavez allowed the president to dip into the country's petro dollars at will without parliamentary oversight or

accountability. java's had nearly unchecked access to oil revenues. some went to fund far reaching social programs but billions also vanished into private coffers. today and the editing as both his friends and foes called him has gone into hiding in exile. me he must soon as you said the simple i just met the petroleum exports brought in about 700. 1000000 dollars over the 10 years i was in office ok let went the good thing by my calculation 480000000000 of that even from taxes we got the rest from the beer davis's petroleum sales bill that is on the 700000000000 is it this is me the big question is you number one of the state do with that money and that's the big question boys are. going to prove that it's

a question say so but he's has also asked himself he's a neighboring colombia to carry out the research for nearly a quarter of venezuelan refugees more than a 1000000 people have ended up in the country. the. the word of. the *. law was. the the. oh. the venezuelan government sometimes blocks access to the border some young venezuelans have gathered in colombia under one of the border bridges. venezuelan state media has a blackout on stories like this but says up the ts will report on it. i do with the

issue not just their freedom of expression no which i'm told we fight to preserve it every day day risking that our websites will be blocked no he's shooting and without that will be publicly insulted yeah i mean threatened with jail in up before have our passports confiscated at the airport when the woman has any applauded but. verret spills over the young people launch an attack against makoto security forces . they throw rocks and a metal tear gas and rubber bullets 2 . but what do you think of that. particular i didn't think it would. but he's goes to meet with one of the duros opponents.

these exiles know the system from within and are important sources. one man here used to be a close friend of the child his family will met us one day. that person is what he was the systematic persecution again the very same day i submitted evidence of a child this family's corruption to parliament i was somebody had asked not to look for me we're going to see a child we have evidence that more than 30 forming a students were involved in that corruption. later on but i was and if you believe that the parliamentary audit committee. beyond the last year i was jailed and 2010 . out of my family was persecuted and being my brother died in 2000 i. am on a meal for years it came away with 5 years ago how did he die you know he was shot one of these murdered yesterday now. see.

for us these. things self self. in my eyes. it's. been 2017 when the us was a was sent to prison for more than a year. the opposition all make it was only one of countless political prisoners. like about 30 other parliamentarians aswat they had no choice but to flee. this video was taken by prison guards who sent it to us while his family in order to help care for us. it's not all state employees a loyal to my do it all. for you. on this one only tell me this mayor is a criminal state and it has a society of accomplices school b.c. and this is diety includes many civilian and military accomplices. and they are all

corrupt. and they're all in it together in that. venezuela's political decline began under president chavez. his economic policies paved the way to a morass of corruption. the country's strict currency exchange system in particular opened the door to massive fraud. business elites politicians and state officials obtain state subsidized dollars through the central bank. these dollars were then sold at a huge profit on the black market want to positive directly in foreign bank accounts. the state of ministration remains riddled with corruption. billions in public revenues have gone missing. in the industrial.

most factories lie a band less than 20 percent of factories in venezuela are still in operation industry has been driven into ruin. under chavez numerous companies were expropriated or nationalized and then were driven into the ground by mismanagement rather than support private industry chavez used petro dollars to import goods from abroad this how to redistribute wealth and power away from the old business elite and increase ordinary people's dependency. in the government venezuela is not entirely reliant on the export of petroleum gold and call time almost all necessities have to be imported. and as rough ale i mean it is admits the country made another fateful economic era. him a little blissfully looted us. installed his military friends and to keep positions in industries that look even to the man who heads the petroleum industry is

a general there is general could be the c.e.o. in 20142017 order the crushing of the protests that is sort of but it's all this is here for a little bit now he's head of the petroleum industry. and knows nothing about it we see my duros installed military people in all key industry positions as well yet for them they have no idea how to run an oil industry or be a good muslim and have a little bit to the. point of production has collapsed due to mismanagement output is now the same as it was in 1945 along with the oil industry the military also controls the black market in gasoline state subsidized gasoline in venezuela is cheap a bottle of water costs more than a 1000 liters of gasoline sold on the black market in colombia it's worth a fortune. but i think that i mean as

a witness this corruption from the inside and who knows whether it is way down at leeds have stashed that debt he money. to keep on the left in seed but to use the bottom line is. i believe that at least 30 percent of government revenue has been lost to corruption. in federal mechanisms by which money is siphoned out of our country it's a middle of it and the base that money flowed into private bank accounts in major industrial nations it's not in zimbabwe it's in private accounts in europe and the united states. he stuck. a system of state sponsored terror is maintaining my doodles hold on power the collective voice of paramilitary gangs who help quell any signs of popular dissent they have a strict code of silence and the government turns

a blind eye in exchange for that loyalty. commandante chavez called as. a kind of urban guerrillas troop. when charges came to power the color t.v. shows were street fighters who were supposed to keep the opposition in check. for. these so-called shock collect tivo was armed and deployed in case of civil unrest or the like. to suppress people who oppose the revolution. i. might do those support has been doing but not among the collective peoples. they also still defend the socialist revolution chavez proclaimed in 1908.

what we're going to do. there's one man in this country who wants to improve faces and look at the maduro. but no one's listening to him he gives an order and everyone does what they want. how can anyone rebuild a country that way. and make a mess of banks i never imagined i'd have to live venezuela one day and i had a career that allowed me to support my family leave here we could buy what we needed her opinion even if it wasn't easy for us and you know let us say then it went downhill and we had no food we didn't live well welcome you know maybe i will grant that when marian soria still lived at home in venezuela she was

a member of an elite unit of police called fi yes which is going to reputation as a government death squad. according to. u.n. report they've carried out thousands of extrajudicial killings they target criminal gangs as well as ordinary people who've taken part in protests. many young was recruited after she graduated from university she spent 12 months with us before deciding to quit after witnessing an extrajudicial killing. perez and out and at the time there was a search underway for us got pez by the state because he was an opponent of nicolas maduro and was plotting to overthrow him. as i don't buy that that's why he was

officially designated a terrorist they know me know that already. you know sadly. this was a former elite police officer who commandeered a military helicopter and dropped 2 stun grenades over the supreme court in caracas no one was injured perez had hoped to spark a military coup and free the country from corruption but his cool for an uprising went nowhere. everyone was looking for us got paris so we received information that he was somewhere near el cerrito. when we went to his hideout. then we began our raid. saying at 3 in the morning on january 14th 2018 the torso then nato and then bombing the i.c.u. itself. you're all.

ok. as a member of marian so he witnessed what happened when paris was tracked down. we're going to i'm going to you know i know gay really are going to do you know get out the guy. who 1st said hey i finally know this scene oh ok that was the day when i realized i didn't belong there you know why i had a nervous breakdown. and i cried all the time and said that's it for me i couldn't see why should i be involved in things like this he i didn't go to university to kill people and we don't get them or to have my boss come to me and tell me to kill someone and if i don't they'll kill me if everything in any doubt might that look

you say oh my pulling my gun on me. i. was. leaving her daughter behind with the parents in venezuela was the price she had to pay for survival. the state tara brightest doesn't treat those who turn their back on it kindly. one day a staple so when you leave a state institution you have information about people you worked with seattle but that's not a risk they want to take that people who quit but especially who quit 5 people

usually leave venezuela fact and otherwise they'll be killed also because they'll just say you were killed during a robbery and also they're saying that all at all after. joe i mean. i send my mother money every week or 2 it depends sometimes they need something unexpected like medicine and medicine is very expensive also put up on the door one lot of money but normally what i send them every 2 weeks is enough for food and for daycare. you know the media. has been living with her grandparents since january 28th like many other venezuelan

children whose parents have fled. and a 100 doesn't have a passport and obtaining one is difficult in venezuela at the moment as a result maddy on hasn't yet been able to bring her daughter to germany. meanwhile marion's father is dealing with his own problems. but i hope. for all the daughters are getting a good top for the daughter they call i'm a coconut farmer did he buy liverpool all coconut producers in this region have to pay protection money jonathan go out on the walk out if we refuse they threaten us and sailors like you allowed on our farts in the. end of the don't tell us why we don't go there anymore. it's just abandonment then in the bin to the

on the not a. little but that harvest was how we earned a living those who went to more like what are we supposed to do know is an offical what will happen there are no longer able to work our land and to harvest our crops they name on the proles the. criminal gangs are now in charge of his farm they sell his coconuts by the truckload mainly in colombia where they fetch a better price. there's . no harm in it i didn't know. carlos trapani is a human rights lawyer. but the rule of law has eroded and obtaining a hearing in the venezuelan courts is next to impossible.

to know if this is the call to 9 o 5 distributes it would have to agree and. data from 192012 find out how many children and young people were killed by gun violence is more of the relevance and of all the districts we looked at the group most and this was one of the most dangerous ones are those. top army is on his way to give a workshop us a catholic school he's a determined advocate especially on behalf of children to want to go what does he enjoy doing it with us and painting music or art what is he like and they want us will draw up a plan for him completely does he like to draw seeing sketch work of clay that's the best way up what are you really. going to be done for some of them for someone to come. to.

our. land to make them come and. go. and i. won't. commit to the for. you so much. a sequel to

come once. most sane ways through the little. good looking little move to those who love. the mickey ollie. deal could do without. question to me this woman she she would. love. to function also called me to. be or rather to give up on step closer but on top. of my day you'll. do something more. dignified derecho tallest to put your feet up if i. feel the same way as some of us who can simple also can not. even look unlike you.

i'm not quite far enough. from. both. the spirit. of the coffee and. make up coming off with venezuelans up bombarded with propaganda on state radio and t.v. . preserve the hope going to last forever i don't see to it that they're going to the other one of us really. quick yes we're going for. the real name of love both of them talk as. if they thought oh my god. i think. coming out there live we're going to see

a lot of story on the internet but i guess lane is free so unreal just so for the currency reevaluation it cost $150.00. all of us today that would be 0.015 all of us cents this area as a monetary unit that doesn't even exist so gasoline is basically given away here so i could have paid for that tank of gas with a cook up. by dollar. if that was going on. there along the lines of the banks people can only withdraw the equivalent of 50 us cents a week from their accounts. venezuela has the world's highest inflation rate manoora has continued to print money to finance the deficit . even among the top 5 venezuela's runaway hyperinflation is high water and.

in any one of the lack of. any is being interviewed at a private radio station there are only a few independent media outlets left in the country trapani is careful with his criticism. of the sanctions are not to blame for all the problems with the children of money funding and these problems have been around for a long time to get out of minutes after 2007 something got much worse for the child mortality was increasing year by year even before the sanctions and as i think an outlook on the not be a sponsor on. for a long time i do rose regime tonight there was a crisis after the united states imposed sanctions that changed and now news of the crisis is everywhere. carlos trapani is listening to a speech by the prosecutor general on state television. and you get the new

british leader i think that you know if there's a war after you can get out of court threw everything down. well i get why you. think. ok. but if i did i don't. know but i thought i did it there are a. lot of. them out. carlos refuses to flee he wants to stay with his family and continue to work for change even though that's often a discouraging prospect. who can really i watch a mature son not only so that i can be a journalist without fear of him but so that my children can live in

a more peaceful country. and so that my family can live well and in peace with this in particular so that friends and family who have left the country come back again with me of course i want change he can always he can. say somebody else is taking his children to school many critical journalists have been forced into exile so far he's been sped up in the lead up to the lead of don't give me the freedom to come you know here but i just look at the top of the didn't feel good. the most valuable pieces some of them beaten down a bit of. work. but i want to come up with much money to. william a little name a little. bit but a lot of them is that i don't need a lot of. people. this vision of a pluri polo world has become

a reality but not in the way that chavez had imagined today venezuela has become the play. a thing of international interests. in february 29000 the united states sent humanitarian aid food delivery to venezuela says up by piece witnessed what happened. the 1st aid trucks were greeted with euphoria but soon the border crossing at the bridge became the scene of a propaganda showdown but due to shock the border trucks full of food and medicine were unable to pass protesters clashed with venezuelan security forces in the end 2 trucks went up in flames none of the aid reached venezuela i. am. i. 3 world powers are each pursuing their own names in venezuela the united states russia and china.

well yeah. yeah. yeah. yeah sure. oh yeah if you go to. like syria and ukraine venezuela has global strategic significance the united states and russia are jockeying for influence without russian intervention my daughter's regime would likely have collapsed. china has maintained its economic and trade ties to venezuela hoping to gain access to the country's vast natural resources. venezuela

has become a bargaining chip in a global game. and a number of countries are hoping to solve the crisis to that advantage. i spoke to before gene i went to china. i spoke with president rouhani of iran with president bush a flicker of algeria the gulf states i understand on oil and. i attended opec meetings for 12 years and i met minister and i am me and all the oil ministers my. little fracking the head but i knew it wasn't just fracking in the united states for a deadly confrontation between the gulf monarchies into iran you know. between the gulf states or russia. that would fracture the unity of all big states. you look at the deficit has overtaken libya and syria you know geo political terrain

has shifted africa and north africa and the mediterranean and oil is a key factor. yeah. the geo political terrain is shifting and in this new cold war new countries are becoming up battleground for competing interests. i don't know the citizens of those countries are being left to fend for themselves millions of people will continue to find themselves displaced forced to flee for their survival. i know. now this is. the height of the relevant not them not at the moment how they need no one to be on a different ukraine they're going. to be any. mere i know who you don't know it ass him be he 10 i would us and the little meat for me

yeah bam point so if with i think of the say for way hate yet there for a pair of the you'll say if was the council oh i see othello the angle this is how it is every day so my made actually never wants to talk to me is on my meter sink avoiding me as her way of telling me she misses me she tells me i'm tired i'm sleeping my gramma has told me to clean my room master did she send you away to clean your room you go and say yes bye bye i'm very busy the local pastor she's always looking for an excuse not to talk to me. and when she wants to it's too late over here it says again with that.

how illegal nellis are sucking the country dry. in spain there are more than 1000000 so-called moonlight wells they're dug illegally and in secret because intensive fruit and vegetable cultivation uses a lot of matter too much water this has drastic consequences for the environment to

span water probably. close up 90 minutes on d. w. . it is time to take one step further and face the loss of. time to such the. fight for the troops above target took over compound interest and come back to the us it's time for t.w. . coming up ahead. frankfurt to help launch international gateway into the best connection self in road and rail. located in the heart of europe you are connected to the world. experience outstanding shopping and dining offers and try our services. allan

gassed at frankfurt airport city managed by for. this is v.w. news live from berlin and china is carrying out an intense global attack on human rights that's according to human rights watch the group releasing its annual report in new york after being denied entry to hong kong accuses beijing of overseeing the most brutal and pervasive oppression in decades and of attacking human rights

globally also coming up. germany leads a new effort to end the fighting in libya chancellor merkel inviting key players to another peace coffee.