are you. in the eye of climate change. for a cosmic. what's in store. for the future. c.w. narcotics are going to make a series of the multimedia inside. counter. they hit and healthy and move within just a passing trained superfoods. that's it for me super food means what does you good because super foods are super for my body was. king one berries and cheese seeds just 3 of the countless super foods in big demand due to their nutritional credentials is going to leave the point as what a person needs to have there's complete confusion on that issue and now you see

these products where we're told you need this if you eat this you'll get well or you won't get sick of it but it's not really true with them so much. how does super food hype impact on local people in countries where the products are actually grown . sons the continued increase in demand has the potential to even destroy entire ecosystems. bensington were on the road to disaster here if something doesn't change and the region will turn into a desert. the soup of food craze started as his so often the case in the u.s. and now see the food restaurants on a time in cities around the world they sit dishes with exotic ingredients such as a cottage chia and. seen one which come with the promise of making new slim healthy

and happy. customers in this restaurant in bochum germany like it. prime designed hours and looks healthy and you know you're doing something good for your body just. i like to be a lot but i like to eat healthy too this is a perfect mix with this lots of healthy stuff here and it's good to have a change from cafeterias other places in town and. jordan plan recognized in asia and opened his business about a year ago. he came up with the recipes himself. his aim is to offer a healthy alternative to fresh found food. yes this is another one of the reasons why we're here is because it's much easier to eat stuff that's bad for you than eating a healthy way and we want to change that and with the term super food you attract more customers and if you call yourself for healthy food and. food here it is

served in special bowls warming greens to combined with cold months most of the rule the food is supposed to look tasty and tap and it's not. assured by the nice thing about a bowl like this is that there are a lot of individual foods in it a that makes it nice and colorful and being it's good for your body because each individual ingredient contains the minerals and vitamins from but it's now stuff spectrum that makes it a perfect meal effect months will be in these are our kidney bean balls. chickpeas. yam and in fine here we have kenya in ancient inca grain from south america. that america is it's a grain that is cooked with water and contains loads of healthy proteins in the nest oftentimes about food because in the part that you know but a lawsuit if it's really all they cracked up to be the protein content of kenya for

example is comparable to every j. millet's. team or how small fine about. 15 minutes has more than twice as much ion. fluorine club as a lot of you seem gradients at the balkan wholesale market which costs local products and farm products like sweet potatoes to as always quality flash inside the freshness of the products is important to flow. and when he shopping. i need to herbs like thing goes. you have come to the right place. the mix is key to florence menu he combines local fruits and veggies with foods from faraway lands. to see this can every for investable has its own nutritional composition that's why it's so nice to combine the local with

the exotic because many diverse nutrients vitamins and minerals come together and they form a very complex meal so and that's great for the body but in cup i suppose. but healthy doesn't necessarily mean sustainable this is super food served up in germany come from countries thousands of kilometers away. again why is a good example among the major producers is bolivia the actually good cells based in germany came right out of its harvested on salt flats. the indigenous peoples of the south american and his highlands were already farming cane was 6000 years ago a new tree in which grain has always been a staple food here. you are you know this is sustainable farming consultant for years he's been watching how kamal cultivation has developed in the region. after

using it at least so i've heard on these relatively sailing in poor soils with little rainfall we find our crop victim deliver fantastic eels. doesn't fit in with the llamas it's an ingenious or ideal form of production and it's good for the region's economy was here for these are doing. the tax changing shops used to provide food for the llamas and protect the soil from the road. after the harvest the animals came to graze llama dung provided fresh nutrients since the king want them started farmers have been pushing for maximum yields scrap land has been cleaned just. proved i was shocked by the fact that 152200000 hectares of llama grazing land has been ploughed up for king one.

there are now kenya fields as far as the eye can see runs into man and has led to massive expansion in the plants cultivation tearing the fields has left the soil without the vegetation that it protected it from when devotion. and when you walk along here you only see annual wage growing now they're completely unprotected. alternately what we're doing is promoting the development of high land deserts. on the farmers won't have the conditions they need to produce here so people have to go elsewhere. that change is already making itself felt with crop yields declining some farmers have already given up and gone to the cities to make a living as unskilled laborers and bolivia is just one place where superfood monoculture has left the land scott. was just. you

know was in this is the problem we see here with keen what is basically going on everywhere around the world to do it's own in the moment. take the avocado for example as a super food it's grown as a monoculture on large farmers but. once profits become the priority short term economic interests override everything else just in. but hardly anyone really thinks about what will become of these ecosystems. people also live. massive demand for avocados has led to problems in countries that grow the fruit just as it has with king what he did in bolivia within a decade the area of land used to grow avocados increased by 30 percent with 1500 liters of water now needed per kilo vegetables in germany such as lettuce and

tomatoes require far less. enormous single crop farms especially in dry regions only ensure a short term high yields raising cain one of the traditional why is based on a different principle using less land yielding better quality. kalani farms a small plot of land it takes a 2 weeks to harvest the fields by hand since tractors are now used to grow clean water more easily everywhere in the flatlands there are a few people left she want to toil away on hill farms yet this is the final of cultivation. i mean most of what. this is the way does work the fields back then. our grandparents towards our parents and our parents taught us. that we have to plough this up every

year are these key members. yes exactly the old roots and you leave these twigs here. and yes we rake them using tools like this. i think that's a way of working the soil you don't have the. bit . it's a traditional system that's been practiced for centuries that's your truth why now here for even here there is room for. meant in terms of sustainability. but compared to a mechanized farming town in the lower than plain stream that this is more environmentally friendly recall august underpass than. the soil has time to regenerate between the 2 harvests he on the hillsides the plants a large the individual kernels plump. years at the end

in march and the union for see this close here it's yielding really well. look at the seed heads the kernels are nice and ripe but our standards these are the best grains we store them and use them as seeds are the same in. your community has brought along some keen march from a german supermarket. he wants to show the farmers how the grain they grow here is sold in consumed in europe. the commerce of posts it is clear how do you feel about germany and europe suddenly discovering keen was a superfood was you know you may have to suppress a prayer because. the measure of product of good law is that ok product didn't used to be well known. to me a word hadn't got around yet about how much protein it has. if used to cost less than rice and pasta. like you know or not this year and they said king well wasn't

worth that much rush back in our. product line as i was on the other i knew there were more in the air. i had to do for the farmers compare the kenya from the german supermarket with what they've just harvested from their own field farm is we're a little proud that kim was now known all over the world. the result is the premier of the box says class one but even our class 2 is bigger than their victims of this reform and. yeah i'd say it's class 3 of the. engineers and these little ones here they're nothing that's a chicken feed. the reason is the. pope is dr king one that needs harvesting. get. done with this field for today further up the hillside she has another plot of.

when the super food being started in 24 change the price fixing what went through the roof back then even small villages like sierra grounded profited from this trend. it's home to just 7 families. they were able to buy new equipment such as a small grain sorting machine. that made work easier in 2015 just a year later the market price collapsed again. how much would you have to earn from keene was grown on the hillside for it to pay off. they'd have to pay us a lot more for our production costs to be covered. plus we need to feed our families because you know. the development of the price. looks like a roller coaster ride in 2014

a piece for $3000.00 to tom but only 3 years later it plummeted to a lower value and before the game began. the critic you see. the expansion of kenya farming on the plains can also lead to major fluctuations in its price. and the hill farmer suffer because they can't compete and don't get paid more despite the additional effort involved in working on the hillsides. the farming is sustainable with high quality yields but this way of working the land is at risk of dying out european consumers are relatively unaware of the farmers' problems while the super food selections in a supermarkets keeps on growing between 20142016 the turnover generated by super foods in germany rose from 1400000 to 42600000 euros the best seller

is chia which accounts for 62 percent of sales but what's best to buy from such a large selection. consumed meant as a must consume or is are completely confused so they're vulnerable to advertising based on faith and sports often it's like religion. if i show up promising a miracle and people in need of orientation are ready to believe it that's the concept behind super foods from super fast. doctor and new traditions specialist mathias riedel inspects the super foods on the shelves of the hamburg supermarket ginger tried berries shia customers find a wide variety of supposedly healthy products here the list of ingredients shows what's really inside. and. you can think this is the natural food section. 0 but here we have cranberries. you don't see it right away but they have

an extra 40 percent sugar portents and sunflower oil which isn't the best oil. so this bag of cranberries has more sugar in it than a bar of chocolate almost 70 percent of it as well so there are anything but healthy as i was under that's good. chia seeds do contain in the very best nutrients but they usually consumed in very small quantities is a lincoln from super foods are just a diversion from the real problem. the german diet isn't healthy enough and adding 15 grams of chia seeds daily won't change it but that's exactly what happens she has seeds or something of an alibi food to make up for an otherwise unhealthy diet . 15 grams provide even less omega 3 fatty

acids than for example a generous portion of walnuts. i understand. flax seeds could be another alternative to chia it has more protein and about the same proportion of polyunsaturated fatty acids although when it comes to count flax seed comes complete. big industry is eager to join this superfine trend even long term staples such as ready to serve cereals and now being supplemented with exotic grains and berries that isn't why here are 2 examples of what's going wrong. if they've got far too much sugar and just a smidgen of cranberry to let the consumer know look it's got fruit and forked ish the percentage of cranberries is well below 5 percent or so negligible. the key here is the high level of sugar it's unhealthy and neutralizes anything beneficial

the dried cranberries contribute cranberry for. lingonberries are an alternative to try and bridge that growing for example the sugar content in cranberries is low bad juju in a relatively sour taste. to the dried version. superfood isn't a registered trademark but it does suggest a positive effect on consuming health that's not always the case. here's a nice example 100. natural doesn't mean 100 percent healthy this small portion for 2 euro's gives you 47 grams of sugar per 100 grams of product for the size that isn't so eating this little bad phone means nearly 25 grams of sugar. that's the world health organizations maximum daily intake recommendation or so that's pretty much it for the day if you look at some cons of. trish an expert advises people in

germany to eat local fruits and vegetables even if their lives trying. to help them are produce has an image problem and we need to inform people about how good these food colors are for us and the benefits of our local products and in high mission public now the alley always have a natural antiinflammatory a fact whether it's chives garlic or leak or. there are local alternatives in germany for many overseas foods and they don't have to be shipped thousands of kilometers to get to supermarket shelves and there is sound choice on the nutrients front. barry has 7 times more calories than the black cart. primarily because of the fullness high sugar content . and when it comes to vitamin c. the black current easily outstrips the goji. some

so-called super foods come from countries with farming regulations are not as strict as in germany sample measurements have shown that some may contain pesticides and heavy metals this lab in braman specializes in detecting hazardous substances in food and other products and has tested lots of goji berries. during pesticide screening we check for the presence of about $200.00 different pesticides these include insecticides fungicides and her body. sides we also screen for for heavy metals cadmium arsenic and mercury in them correctly laughton we primarily found insecticides in higher concentrations. and not just in goat you berries samples from other institutes of indicated the presence of pesticides and mineral oil in rural cocoa she is see and the ring of

power. the pesticide issue isn't a problem with keen watch maker juices have organic certification but that doesn't make the farming sustainable tractors churn up the dry soil and with demand growing the land being farms now stretches from the hills to the flat lands with no end in sight. is concerned that if things go on like this there won't be any more growing he won then the farmers are already telling him that the yields a shrinking from year to year. conclusions that could be drawn from this aren't being made that people need to ask above all what can we actually do differently instead of saying ok stop ploughing all that up to the message should be how can we produce keen wads without destroying the whole

region here when. you walk in wales is headed for the community of fruit but they also crikey why in the flatlands using making nice to farming. they came up and revived this village and many locals returned from the big cities because they could make a living here again houses will rebuild and a modest level of affluence developed in the form of assets like tractors and other machines. and the villages went back to fostering local customs such as traditional music and rituals. and then the big demand for keen one has had a really positive effect on our community. with the money in our standard of living and our quality of life have improved enormously mostly. in the way they grow qinghai and really needs to change fundamentally if they are to maintain that the clock is farmed according to organic standards that natural

vegetation is still being largely cleared that we consume quality. but where you. have a look at this tall a plant and the way its root system is formed. the roots are still firmly anchored in the soil i go several metres down into the ground. that extreme talking to your this is one of the most important species to maintain fertility in this extremely dry region. it stops winter so hard. if the decline in soil quality continues soon it will no longer be worth the pharmacy if it. talks to the pharmacy about ways to ensure decent harvests in the long term. the soil is beautifully fertile here because of these here. we must produce the keen while with this it's like

fertilizer. this is the same time it's food for llamas right. that's the best thing for the keen want we just have to take all these would be bits and sprinkle them on the field when we sow we should try that. process we need to produce everything biomass fertilizer on the piece of land itself this is not then it's sustainable and at the same time we also have to reforest. these people are quite skeptical but that's always the case or something new. but people are listening. to this that's a place like this makes me optimistic that something can be done this replacement the most modern cars. in the small town of salinas preparations are underway for a market finish with a regional kima farmers will be able to present it when it's all the towns in the

surrounding area are represented in a showcase of the food that is so vital for the region. you know this wants to speak to the exhibit says many export their crops to europe and most produce according to ogunnaike standards. they have going on this is hoping that gemma consumers will soon not chinese want chemo that is found organically but sustainably as well. as they are. worth only so for those not to be good if this demand could be used to change farming practices. we have to make it clear that the organic requirements are not nearly enough to produce a keen watch sustainably over through. sustainability has to become a key more farming stand it if the ecosystem is in bolivia highlands to remain intact and offer the human and animal inhabitants a viable long term future. at

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this is news live from berlin we are forced to access german chancellor i got back to it she announces a holiday season shut down schools at most shops will close 5 gatherings will be limited and there will be battles on public alcohol consumption and the sale of fireworks but the government stopped short of imposing a full lockdown also coming up. brags that goes into overtime as the self-imposed deadline for an agreement expires to brussels and london say they're not done trying to avert and no deal scenarios that would badly hurt both sides. and

this latest club or a said dog once fired their head coach those him father after a devastating loss just took guts on saturday. i'm a call from his welcome to the program. german chancellor angela merkel has announced a raft of tough new lockdown measures she said they were necessary to bring down the spiraling numbers of new covert $900.00 cases let's break down for you what is set to change here and germany from wednesday on non-essential shops will have to close supermarkets pharmacies and banks will be allowed to remain open schools will be shut in principle until the 10th of january and employers are being encouraged to allow their staff to work from home as far as that's possible of course merkel also made an appeal for people to limit their social contacts during the holidays

the number of people allowed to meet indoors will remain restricted to 5 not including children under 14 and anticipation of new year's celebrations sales of fireworks are going to be banned as well the tough new measures set the table for a bleak holiday season. 4 months trying to longer the leaders of germany 16 federal states have been bickering about the measures that are necessary to contain the corona pandemic. pushed for hostile steps the regional leaders refused to follow her lead now they have finally reached a complete consensus views and some $100.00 will force to act and taking action now we have jointly decided that the regulations of the federal states will be valid until january 10th. for the time being. the goal remains to bring the infection rates down. across germany it has become clear

in recent weeks that large to restrictions imposed 6 weeks ago are not sufficient to control the pandemic and stared december has seen record infection numbers more and more people are dying with the virus and hospitals are approaching the limit of their intensive care. capacity. to meet all of my also hopes that the mother measures would have had a greater impact but now with the christmas shopping season the number of contacts has risen sharply once again. retail shops across the country will be most seriously affected by the new measures being shut down at the busiest and most lucrative time of the year and they are being given just 2 days notice the losses will be huge but the government is once again mobilizing billions to soften the blow. and it's wonderful if it comes to complete closure for a whole month we expect to spend over $11000000000.00 euros for that one month for

a new movement on that shows that this is a very generous support package. i want to say i think it is absolutely justified he does if you're absolutely. retailers and consumers snarl know what they are facing in these last couple of weeks of the year it will be an exceptionally quiet holiday season but the hope is that that will also be true for hospitals. germany pulling the emergency brake our political correspondent simon young has more simon welcome germany was long hailed as the poster child for endemic management here in europe this month we're seeing one grim milestone after another where did the country go wrong. well the call of course it's difficult to pinpoint an exact moment when the country perhaps took a wrong turning but certainly what we have seen is that infection numbers have surged in the last 6 to 8 weeks we always knew that autumn and winter the worse

weather would bring an increase in infections but it has been growing exponentially as the chancellor said today what's the reason well some laxity perhaps as it has crept in through the year in terms of following the rules some people have pointed out that there have been changing rules around germany and a patchwork of different regulations that may have confused some people there's also been some very determined opposition to following rules from a minority of people so all of that may have played a role germany's health care system remains pretty robust but it may be that it had luck in the spring when infections were lower and maybe that luck has now run out by many other countries stander if the new measures are still very far from a hard lock down why is the german government so reluctant to impose tight restrictions like curfews or restrictions on mobility. well i think perhaps they just don't think that will be the best way to deal with the problem but

a lot of people are talking now about a shutdown rather than a lot down that's to say retail is being shut down restaurants were already closed what's not happening as you say is that mandatory curfew is being imposed it's more of an appeal to people to with their contacts having said that the rules do say under this new plan where infections are high tougher measures should be imposed some states like the varian bart inverting bank of already said they will impose curfews at least limited ones overnight curfews allowing police to challenge people who are outside without good reason and so on and we may well see that kind of thing happening elsewhere in germany as well i mean young thank you very much. let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world some 400 nigerian students are still missing after a gunman armed with assault rifles attacked

a secondary school in the northwestern state of kut scene on friday officers are working with the army and air force to determine how many students exactly were kidnapped search parties continue to look for that. iran's foreign ministry has summoned the envoys of germany and france after the european union condemned the execution of an opposition figure around described it as unacceptable interference in its domestic affairs. was hanged on saturday over his role and protests 3 years ago. thousands of people have taken to the streets of poland in the latest protests against a high court ruling that tightened the country's already restrictive abortion law in warsaw they marched to the home of the ruling law and justice party leader. sunday's rallies coincided with the 39th anniversary of poland's martial law crackdown. space x.

has successfully launched a falcon 9 rocket into space from cape canaveral florida it's bringing an essay exam 7 satellite for sirius into space that will replace the previous one the new one will provide satellite radio service to listeners across north america. u.k. and e.u. negotiations theirs are being given extra time to agree opposed trade deal european commission president was the fund that negotiations with british prime minister boris johnson had been constructive and that they're going to continue talks on a free trade agreement beyond today's deadline if they do reach a deal and could avert chaos for cross border commerce in the new year and give businesses the certainty they're calling for. a fresh push for a breakthrough with trade talks deadlocked negotiators in brussels dropped their own deadline and pressed forward in search of a deal. after a call with the british prime minister european commission president person often

the lion said the stakes were too high not to make the effort. we both think that it is responsible at this point in time to go the extra mile. we have accordingly mandated our negotiators to continue the talks and to see whether no reach an agreement can be reached even at this late stage but in london tough talk from the british prime minister about the prospect of a breakthrough. as things stand and this is basically. agreed i'm afraid we're still very far apart on some key things but where there's life there's hope we're going to keep talking to see what we can do the u.k. certainly won't be walking away from the talks so that people would expect us to to go the extra mile. negotiators have been unable to reach an agreement on a so-called level playing field ensuring fair competition between british and e.u.

companies they've also failed to forge an agreement on fishing rights in british waters boris johnson has been warning britons to prepare if no compromise can be found. let's let's see what we can achieve but in the meantime get ready we've called for this at the general the 1st trade. if we have to. negotiators would need to strike a deal before the end of december when the brics a transition period expires otherwise britain and you will begin the new year with no trade deal and potential chaos. german one is like a club or a said thought might have sacked coach lucy in far less than 24 hours after their $51.00 defeat to start got 5 or was contract was due to expire at the end of the season labelled the result a disaster. it was documents for its defeat of the seas and it left them 6 points

behind the top of the league assistant coach aiden 10 as it will take over on a temporary basis until the end of the season and more on that story i'm now joined in the studio by jonathan crane from sports jonathan welcome where did it all go wrong for lucy involved dortmund well i think it would probably be too easy to point the finger at that disastrous results against i mean it really was probably the final straw for the 2nd round of the roman c.e.o. in the stands had a face like thunder but really that was part of a wider problem a pattern of inconsistency really from birth to do and because on one side or on that day they are capable of brilliant things they have such an exceptionally young talented scald the lights of adding horns and. giovanni raina then on the other side it can all just go wrong and they just seems for implode like they did again where they give the ball away far too easily leave themselves exposed at the back and i think performances like that really exposed solution far as frailties as well

he's seen as this great tactical guy that he's got a great tactical brain where he falls short his critics say as he kind of lacks a bit of fire and is bad he can't fire a side up to motivate them to get the performances when the chips are down and i think probably the most frustrating thing at the moment given the bad they're still in with a chance. in the chase for the title so you know it will be frustrating because they think if we'd been doing better we could have been right up there and i think that's probably what's prompted them to act the sporting director because they said it was a tough step to take but quote negative developments lately i mean there is a need to act had a few close shaves with the sack in the past and forget now he has finally gone who's likely to replace him on a permanent basis and it's not surprising a job of this caliber verse to do it when one of the biggest teams in germany a few big names have already been mentioned in connection with the vacant job i think in. and going around the media and social media at the moment is mocha rose

he is the current barista. doing a brilliant job with them with his own kind of brand of attacking football in a similar fate jesse mancini's the red bull salzburg coach he actually replaced rose in that job he is very attack minded he would also be someone that's dimensions i guess the marquee choice really is. the former tottenham manager he's been out of work for more than a year he is kind of in many ways a would give him and what was lacking in the fall for someone who's really passionate show some passion can far the players get the best hours of the. sticking point maybe he's not a fluent german speaker the german from be at the moment i think germany would like that and listening to recent interviews with him you kind of suggest he would rather go about to the premier league rather than the burden as they go once we know for sure you have to come back and give me all the details on the successor thank you very much you will. buy in munich on the other hand were held to

a one on draw on for a land for lim got off to the perfect start after just 6 minutes in a shop window and glanced in a header from a corner of the fire and came back in the 2nd half and equalized through all but it went off skate the whole scoring his 13th league goal of this season. let's take a look at all the other results from match day 11 laver cousin took down hoffenheim book the 9 shock of their 1st win like they should be bremen drew with had to have her land freiburg down to feel a failed cologne defeat at mines and volvo bay frankfurt on friday. where does all that leave the wonders lay the table well those who have claimed the top spot dropping byron munich to 2nd and leipsic move up to 3rd at the expense of dog mount and the bottom house book and her to have her limb climb while hoffenheim fall bailiff out minds and shaka still make up the last 3. coming up next on reporter

the dangers faced by civilian fishermen working off the libyan coast on the gulf really for me and the entire team at the w. new things that young and. i'm not nothing out of the germans because sometimes i am but most end up in with the people germany think deep into the german culture. you did seem to think there's ground monday on the east coast it's cold out there no time rachel join me to meet the damage done to gulf coast. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing. what measures are being.

what does the latest research say. information and context. the coronavirus are to get special monday to friday w. . the. libyan coast guards are hunting down sicilian fishermen on prime fishing grounds where the red shrimp are waiting to be caught. there is a particularly large number of them off the. coast of libya but there libyans lot italian fishermen from accessing the fishing spots a political power play sicilian fisherman are repeatedly arrested and detained in libya. i no longer have a sense of the future when i look towards the sea. cannot see how i am afraid that

my husband will not return. an afternoon and that saturday violent coastal fishermen are hauling in their daily catch these are the few who won't risk venturing further out into the open sea local fishmongers are already waiting they appreciate the fresh catch here in western sicily even though they are paying prices that are no longer profitable for most fisherman the only people still making real money are deep sea fisherman their crews are at sea for up to 2 months they fish primarily for red treb which are sold at a profit all over the world the shellfish are sorted by size and then stored in deep freeze while they are still at sea. captain phillips is particularly proud of this

catch. fish all these are the famous 1st class red shrimp. they don't get any bigger than this and this mediterranean delicacy as in high demand at the finest restaurants around the world. they get all of it when times are good we can make 550 euros with 1st class read for a 12 kilo box. will it be that's $45.00 euros per kilo here on board it was. up to 100000 euros can be made from a good catch in return. crew risks a lot fishing grounds for red shrimp off the libyan coast are particularly lucrative and they're actually international waters but the libyans have been claiming them as their own for years but incidents keep happening like this one during the summer of $28.00. the libyan coast guard wanted to stop the italian

fisherman and arrest the crew now marco might own his crew has been caught in early september his 2 fishing trawlers were detained by the libyans the vessels owner is desperate 18 men have been detained in a benghazi prison for months no dispute within the dns has ever lasted this long so how can it just be about sovereign rights. it's horrible not being able to see the ships anymore. or the men who work for either the or the or it's like having a missing son who you can't hug anymore what. a total of 9 italian fishing trawlers are involved in this clash with the libyans unlike some of the other captains bije a colonial was able to save his ship barely. the libyans approached us they wanted to capture all of the trawlers captains along with their paperwork.

that would let up as this couple who we risked our lives when we escaped because the coast guard is armed. with they could have shot us. there with their words but . this is a photo of the fisherman taken into custody it appears to have been taken after they were arrested in benghazi. not on the photo mohammad ben-hur data mohamed is one of the 6 tinnies and crew members held by the libyans since he has been arrested by the libyans twice before his family has already feared for his life both times but this time uncertainty is wearing on the nerves of both his daughter now rests and mother money. we were always in contact and knew how he was doing with his phone always worked thinking that i was in this time we haven't heard from him in months we don't know

what's happening or if he's even still alive. i feel really exhausted. what we have i no longer have a sense of the future when i look towards the sea. i'm afraid that my husband will not return. as difficult as it is in libya i just hope that he is in a safe place. media. at the port of matata mohammed starter meets with the families of other detained fisherman as much as she can together with the ship's owner marco they hold a small protest to comfort one another christina i'm a believe no worries about her husband salvo the 1st officer on one of the fishing trawlers in a city at our children are waiting for their fathers mothers for their sons and

wives for their husbands. the government must act swiftly noire thermal we are fighting for 18 italian fishermen which includes 6 tunisians for 2 senegalese and 2 indonesians who have all lived here and was out of their bhalo for many years some since before i was born. we are talking about 18 fishermen from us out of the lalo who pay their taxes and who have families here but with the thought it was $1.00 of the boys. but the family still refused to give up and they're taking their cause to the capital rome they have been staging a protest in front of parliament for 2 months demanding more action from the italian government and more protection for fishermen off the coast of libya. this guy we risk getting arrested 74 nautical miles off the coast because libya

considers the open sea to be sovereign waters europe and italy must step in to stop this because the sea does not belong to just one person or nation it belongs to all of us to this issue but i'm not alone but out it we never expected that my husband would leave home for work set sail and then end up in a libyan prison and just become a lie. in what's out of their value polo colona also understands what this means the red trim trade her own stew fishing trawlers in 2009 his vessels were also seized by the libyans this. was when you're in charge of 2 fishing trawlers each with a crew of 7. men you've worked with for 25 or 30 years. and then arrest like that really gets under your skin. just

thinking about it today makes me feel awful. could have been further from. the incident off the coast of tripoli lasted for 3 days before the men were released. italy's then head of government silvio berlusconi negotiated directly with the late libyan strongman moammar gadhafi the son that what gadhafi claimed 74 nautical miles of open sea as his own personal territory that's like my neighbor breaking through the wall and saying that my house belongs to him. libya has created an international problem in the mediterranean which no italian government has ever tackled. at least the italian navy used to patrol international waters off the libyan coast until 2018 they also flew in by helicopter to assist italian fishermen when they were being harassed by libyans most of the time their

speed boats then turned around and left the sicilians to continue fishing in the waters and then came the turning point 2 years ago rome withdrew from the southern mediterranean the only thing the fishermen were told the operation is too costly and politically complicated from that point on the fish at their own risk the reasoning behind it if the navy withdraws it won't be able to rescue distressed migrants at sea either more and more people who are attempting to reach europe by crossing the mediterranean sea there is still a dispute between european countries over their rescue and admittance not only is the right wing populist government in rome abandoning the refugees it is also compromising the security of its own fishing fleet the goal before but we need their protection so that we can fish in international waters with the knowledge that otherwise what happened to my ship crews will just happen again next time they

would go to the cloud bare to lottie a security expert on the southern mediterranean cease fishermen as pawns in the libyan power struggle sequesters this is a real kid. nothing that is threatening of talian fishermen and their lives. this is an international power play that goes far beyond territorial waters or fishing grounds and who has access to them in the southern mediterranean. so this photo proves back to lottie's point the arrested fishermen were forced to pose in front of a photo of general khalifa haftar the longstanding instigator of libya's civil war still controls benghazi but because he has fewer and fewer allies he has been excluded from recent peace negotiations that would affect the entire country what he called this kidnapping could be a last ditch effort by the libyan general. his back's against the wall and he's trying to get himself back in the game once again with

a dramatic stunt. so powell logia colona is convinced that it's not just about red shrimp and yet properly marketed the chris station could deliver peace on both sides of the mediterranean as long as the libyans can be convinced that a real deal can be made with the italians. the fight for fishing grounds over red shrimp could finally come to an end if both sides can profit from the sale of this cull unary delicacy or that will be the quality here has been given to us by god with the sea that gives us delicacies that are valued around the world. this see could feed italians and libyans just as it feeds these shrimps. colona dreams of a joint venture where shrimp can also be packed in libya which could shorten the long transport routes in the mediterranean but it ought to because everyone would

benefit we could finally fish and peace without fearing for our lives and the libyans would have us the italians as new investors we could build warehouses on their coasts and create new jobs but in order for this to happen peace must 1st prevail across the sea and the bia and the fishermen of mazzara would need assurance of free passage. with all of them this way we can avoid more arrests. and stop more families from suffering. going to. despite the explosive situation nobody here and that's sad that evolve though can't imagine life without red shrek. movies. at 1st glance it looks like a scrap heap. but on the 2nd

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