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drugs money laundering forgery smuggling faffed cyber crime when it comes to organized crime business is booming with revenues of more than $800000000000.00 euros a year according to the latest report by the european police authority europol the report also says there are around 5000 transnational criminal groups operating in europe one of the most lucrative criminal activities is people trafficking this particularly affects women from nigeria many of whom a forced into prostitution in europe and. in italy according to united nations estimates as many as 80 percent of nigerian migrant women arriving in the country are at risk of sex trafficking. and those behind it are often nigerian.

womenomics. the nigerian mafia stronghold in europe is the small town of cust oval torino just outside naples this is nigeria. college. this is the italian coastal community of custer voto no new naples once an upscale resort now a wasteland we visited before the coronavirus pandemic i suspect it does the someone not the nigerian mafia has taken really tear them down to this former member tells us how his countrymen make millions in people smuggling drugs running and prostitution he wishes to remain anonymous so we'll simply call him duffy did he change signs to work with the italian authorities and now his life's in danger is good. because i want to know it is a big headquarters. for the ledger my fears because these the

only place it goes through here. without going for it there are many in the boosters here government. where the guy there are things and become do everything they want without. notifying this the or the. deputy used to work as a drug career for the nigerian mafia he would swallow sealed pellets containing cocaine and then smuggle them across international borders to italy. or i go swallow up 1.2 kilos you cannot get enough so you have to move the food if you go a lot to like him ok and the red or yellow if you mix it and drink it you come up to you you just start everything. you say news media. many of the drug couriers dying in the process says radiologists marianna. scully

owning if just one packet of cocaine has a leak or tears open inside their intestines the result is almost certain death. the owner has teamed up with the italian authorities to crack down on the practice . leaving the helots you can see or in the intestine. there are 20 to 30 here. each about 7 or 8 centimeters long. close together it's an incredible quantity of cocaine in. the very nasty brother. and as the radiologist explains many countries lack the technical means to detect this form of smuggling. a pretty same gun condom cocaine wrapped up in a condom will not show up in a normal x. ray. the smugglers now use new materials to avoid detection and prosecution.

the same but anything that sometimes it's hard for us to distinguish between these pellets and food being digested. the. value in jail i remember thinking one time they could easily be knocking. somebody korea in from somewhere like. cutting drugs i've been in new delhi. a lot of this child didn't realize they were just. on the ground. and with for the person today then they think oh he was going to have is the more important in the case of the value of human being. completely 0. then there's prostitution here 2 people are disposable. it's another market dominated by the nigerians in a region that's traditionally the stronghold of an italian mafia clan as we're told

by a local prosecutor. decades the crystal ball tour the region has been controlled by a very dangerous and powerful camorra clan because releases. but even so the nigerian mafia have managed to expand in the area. that was the 1st time and i'm sure these 2 criminal organizations have come to some kind of arrangement or pact. blessing is one of the many women who fell victim to the criminals the nigerian computer scientist was lured to europe with the promise of a high paying job she came to italy via spain with all the right paperwork and perfectly legal but like thousands of other nigerian women was forced into prostitution one bore hole i got scared when they took away my phone. the next they told me i owe them 65000 euros.

only then did i realize i was at the mercy of people traffickers and the traffic on thing. the found the courage to escape from her fellow nigerian tormentors she went to the police and was taken in by nuns it's amazing she managed to get out alive. when they put you on the street they're always spying on you watching you. if a car comes by a customer they keep a list and check your earnings later that evening. because you could be hiding money. if you get pregnant they give you some abortion drugs and then lock you up at home for 3 days despite bleeding. or. most of these illegal activities happen in what the nigerian mafia calls connection houses during one raid italian authorities found weapons drugs and evidence of prostitution the mafia bosses hold absolute power those found to be breaking the

rules are simply put to death. and do give you 2 in a member of the group to go and try it in the forest so if the body is. surely one of countries and know what there's a hope also that. the nigerian mafia has practically free reign here david recalls brazen drug deliveries conducted by boat we see the signal on the sea with 10 o'clock in the night then we would be sure. to be brought to the end of the boat i see. it's not officially boarded if you can. or before. because i've got about

what is happening. but especially there might be some. as david explains italy has a problem with not just one but many criminal organizations and their influence extends well into officialdom he wants to do all he can to expose and minimize that . the chinese government is notoriously intolerant of dissent something for testers in hong kong in recent months know only too well. and to ensure dissent tremaine slow in mainland china the party is extending its influence in the lives of 100000000 primary school children. lola starts her day at 7 in the morning with her skipping rope 130 jumps minimum that'll learn her bonus points from her teacher. who was 9 years old she stopped going to school in january because of the corona virus outbreak. it'll stay that

way until september that means 7 months of home schooling and skipping rope every morning. in the ocean i like it and exercise keeps me healthy and i can share some extra points in sports the exact. their lives on a tight schedule like most people in this housing estate in northern beijing 100000 people live here every morning the residents meet in the small park to do tight. martial art of focuses on balance and harmony between the inner self and what lies outside. before lola can relax she has to complete certain tasks chinese society demands good grades and obedience from children sport plays a part and there are reasons for that. family saying that the other children need to develop 5 basic principles of virtue intelligence body is that accent work all

these things are taken into account for the sports great as well if a child is too fat or too thin this impacts the grade so children should not be too fat or too thin and should keep their b.m.i. in balance. at 8 o'clock in the morning there are online lessons math and english all mine year olds throughout china are stuck at home in front of their screens grappling with the material the central government is keen on home schooling it makes it even easier to enforce conformity. in the past little always wished she could be at home now things are different she feels lonely for months she's been sitting alone on the sofa doing her schoolwork above all she's afraid she won't be able to keep up the role. if i don't learn well now that that you are grow up and know nothing. and this ignorance will prevent me

from becoming a good member. scientists found. the pressure to perform in china's schools is extremely high the learning culture is based on discipline routine competition and performance. sitting still singing the national anthem rote learning from an early age children learn that the most important thing is the motherland as they call it here and the communist party indoctrination is also integrated into their homework. on labor day and party day children are asked to say something about our motherland. they're told to express what they think and what they want to do as adults for their motherland. layla's mother shows is the homework from july the 1st the founding day of the communist party the online answer reads like it was written by lolo's parents melodrama without the party there would be no new china the party let us and the

people founded the new china and made it strong without generations of party members this would not be possible. but 80 kilometers away aside beijing's 5th ring road in the south of the city was also on his computer is the same lessons as all of the 17 and 18 year olds throughout china specializing in art he says he finds the coronavirus and home schooling annoying. well there are 4 of us sometimes 5 in a single house and for more than half a year now he gets on your nerves. so now and his twin sisters are trying to get along as best they can before the pandemic the sisters attended a sports boarding school and came home only on weekends so now was at an art boarding school and was home only once a month. what are you joys now is less homework and more time for creative art

independent thinking is not something you're supposed to do at school. she wouldn't have got to go far this picture contains all the standards that an art student has to show at the graduation exam. you are only allowed to paint a portrait in this style not any other and you'll only be accepted by a prestigious art university in china if you draw exactly like this. painting on the garden wall helps on our lessons creativity run free he doesn't hold back with his criticism of the fix mindset in china especially about art he's worried about the high school graduation exam the dreaded where conformity is fully enforced. so will the chinese education from its earliest days has always sought answers that conform to the norms or there's a uniform curriculum u.s. that procedure and the standard answer there is no room for diversity and individuality. china's school children spend an average 12

hours a day studying. as mother invests an additional $6000.00 euros a year towards her daughter's education. what she likes best she tells is painting and dancing. then she focuses on her 3 hours of private lessons in english which will go on until 8 pm. no other part of africa is affected by climate change as the sun how the region south of the sahara the population is growing and at the same time arab a land is being destroyed by erosion and drought and the result conflict leading to violence and displacement peace could come in the form of the great green wall though a wall of trees set to stretch almost 8000 kilometers from senegal to ethiopia by

2030. finally teach you how can cut the grass for hay for weeks none of the local farmers were allowed to graze their livestock here the grass has grown very long now they can harvest hay to use for animal feed in the coming months when there will be little rain in the morning we're happy that things are getting greener again we use the grass to feed our animals and make roofs for our homes in the past it was more barren here and now it's better. trees have also been planted to combat the deforestation of the region a strip of green has now grown up designed to ensure a better microclimate stonewalls and terrorising help stop the erosion of the land beehives have been brought in to help with pollination.

and then when we 1st started the farmers protested saying that this is their grazing land but we talked to them and the experts help them understand the principles behind what we're doing. this project in northern ethiopia is part of what's known as the great green wall a film made by the united nations reveals the huge scope of the initiative and the aim that 1st was to stop the sahara desert from spreading by planting a line of trees and on the edge of this hell region of the vision has since expanded the hell is one of the regions worst hit by climate change worldwide much of the land has been destroyed by over farming the great green wall initiative is designed to make it usable again as the african union's project coordinator explains it's about how to learn how to adapt the learn to climate change hard to use the learn to me to get. stuck up on how to use the learn to provide jobs

create wealth. in the communities where the program is being made. but there's concern that increasing levels of terrorism and ethnic conflict in the sahara region could threaten the success of the great clean war it's a patchwork of hundreds of different projects like the one in ethiopia facts but say that many of them are successful but point out that others are less effective we've got to change the basic concept of investing in the great green wall and fortunately we have massive success stories for. all of the countries in the sahara all but only need to be replicated and they depend only on the awareness and the inspiration of farmers in their villages seeing what works the great green wall initiative aims to restore 100000000 hector's of currently degraded land and create 10000000 jobs right now that's still a long way off. over the years we've become

hugely attached to dora the orangutan lady from sumatra is jungle school named 2014 a team from began following her journey back into the wilds. the school is run by the frankfurt so we're not equal society after years of living in captivity the iranian towns learn everything they need to meet independent lives in the rain forest dura in through all dark team of terror but it's easy to master the many challenges put before her before being released into the forest. after a 3 year break we were due to return to indonesia to the book it national park to see how the jungle school and its peoples are getting along but then came the pandemic. humans have to keep their distance from to even that much time. because both species are at risk

of contracting the new coronavirus. these a ring of tang's are under lockdown and have had to stay in their cages for months . if. you can train them to find it interesting. so we bring in the. right thank you very much. so they can learn it's their meals are delivered wrapped in leaves so they have to figure out how to get the food useful practice when they're later released into the wild. cages or disinfected twice a day. hygiene is of crucial importance. the teams who care for the animals rotate

every 3 weeks before they start work staff have their temperature taken another coronavirus precaution they shot the video for this report themselves we talked to the head of the project by video call. or. human wants you. to by a long time d.n.a. is 97 percent identical to the out of humans so they're extremely susceptible to all our diseases especially those affecting the risperidone tract. you know that's the main reason why we've imposed such a strict quarantine to make sure there's no transmission of a virus replicating in humans to a population in the wild. it would probably have no immunity or told to such a virus or now it's. the effects could be devastating. through has been reporting on this project for years 3 aim is to

prepare a rang a tank for survival in their natural jungle habitat in the. rainforest in central sumatra. many were rescued as orphans often held captive as pets under terrible conditions they had forgotten or had never learned how to move through the tree tops forage for food and build nests their keepers at the jungle school teach them all these skills usually out in the forest itself. i rang a tings enjoy piggyback rides many of them don't like to walk much this was before the coronavirus pandemic. so no exercises in the forest for now even though they have so much to learn things. probably the most important item on the curriculum of jungle school is learning about fruit trees what they look like and when they bear fruit. in which season arm which years. in order to survive every rung in town has to

develop a 4 dimensional map in their head covering space and time it takes time to learn all that but we've had to suspend the learning process where the trees and when do they bear fruit as the iraqi towns have to stay in their cages. the lockdown can only be relaxed once the pandemic has been contained this is not good for the animals their fitness deteriorates and they become bored even the not the best preconditions for release and survival in the wild. those that have already been set free currently lead better lives keepers go on patrol to check on them and provide extra food if need be. here to social distancing applies.

for. the school is located in the book it took up who rain forest and releases its graduates there it's a very remote location. so should any around it tanks here catch the coronavirus they won't pass it on to other ones in the wild. what's more they tend to be naturally self isolating creatures anyway and don't hang out in big groups. the team faces the challenge of protecting their wards from possible infection while also training them for release this video was shot a couple of years ago there is no guarantee that a self-sustaining population will emerge here again over the past half century 80 percent of the region's rain forests have been cut down to make way for vast plantations. on our last visit paid to prague to stress the importance of saving

the forest and teaching the orangutans survival skills. and you. if the orangutans are able to survive here and all the other animals in the rain forest animal community will be to the tigers elephants and old the other species that's why it's so important to protect them. the number of covert 1000 cases among humans in indonesia continues to rise. the project has a back up plan if the lock down goes on for too long it will release its orangutans into the wild before they've completed their schooling but will then provide them with longer term support out in the forest it's that way the irag attains will be able to settle and have offspring and their numbers can grow until the threat of extinction here is banished.

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