so under those circumstances there was a whole spectrum of people who spoke people who came from turkey for instance one man who died after having moved in his youth to germany from turkey he had retained his love for turkey for all his life and yet he was a person in germany and his family here in germany so it was an attempt to show respect to a whole spectrum of people in germany who have suffered in the last year and many people are going to look at this to thank him self-will why are they doing this now . yes indeed that question was in fact oss several times one could say you should do this you should have done it a long time ago. there was quite a big response in german media and media in fact across europe and probably the rest of the world that respect was not shown enough for the victims that thousands of victims died and nobody really acknowledge that they had been and that they were

gone. the president has said najaf her a year of the pen demick and without knowing when it will end we can't wait for coming near a sion until the end because we don't know when the end will be. the president feels it's time now to give ourselves a little bit of space to think about those who have died and to show respect as i said to those have been left behind and i think the commemoration today did you did that very effectively if this isn't possible for president shine i had to say today as he talked about turning the statistics that we hear about every day on the news into real people today. we have focusing not on numbers and statistics but on the people that we have lost women and men from all regions of our country the very elderly but also people who are younger even very young. even though we call to mind their names faces and stories. for all of the differences in the different

ways in which they lived they are all missed by their families and friends and by their neighbors and their colleagues like theirs by our society. none of them will come back i was obliged many times but they remain in our memory so guess we will not forget them. and he kate kept coming back to that point didn't leave the fact that so many people died alone there was there was this danger that the families the people left behind perhaps thought that they might be forgotten amidst the tumult yes indeed i mean there was tumult as we know and there was a crisis situations in hospitals in fact at the moment that crisis situation is looming again and that sort of situation. a lot of people died with all

of their families being able to perform the kinds of rituals that one would normally perform that goes from a ritual washing that for instance is prescribed in islamic faith or in jewish faith which was prohibited because the body was regarded as being infectious all the way to the kinds of very large gatherings that funerals can normally be these were not possible because of the restrictions in the covered times. a lot of people who lost loved ones had a lot of grief to deal with beyond the fact that their loved ones had died and a lot of bitterness i think a lot of anger. was caused by that and he talked about the bitter decisions the difficult decisions that people that politicians had to make. better decisions about such restrictions in order to save for their lives in order to not endanger other people did think it was interesting that he confronted that had on him he

talked about the fact that yes you will be angry yes you will be bitter these are the decisions that had to be taken and there will be a reckoning but no it is indeed i think there will be a reckoning in the sense that one will try to find out what could have been done better he's talked about the fact that everyone is learning in the pandemic. the way that people were treated at the beginning during the 1st wave of infections a year ago is very different to the way that people are being made a king treated today the way that a lockdown was imposed a year ago complete locked on a complete standstill of the economy as always you know it's what's happening today so there is a learning process involved mistakes were made and i'm sure there will be some sort of reckoning examination of what that could mean for the future. we've we've mentioned that a powerful part of today's service was hearing from the victims or the families of

the victims so let's just listen to a couple of those 8 days of worrying of waiting and waiting for the doctor to call me every day hoping for a miracle praying that my worst fears would not come true my worst fears came true on the 14th of april i was allowed to go to the i.c.u. to my husband when it was clear that medicine to do nothing more for him. to this day those images of the long and lonely corridor in the hospital all of the beeping and the lights and in the middle of it my handlers marked by his illness and all i could do was squeeze his hand that at least i could do that is something i'm so grateful to the hospital for to this day my daughter cloud told me a few days ago that granddad had told her

a few days ago have wonderful it was to swim with dolphins in the sea. he had a very close relationship with his granddaughter and said before his death that there were no words to describe his love for her his family was the most important thing in his life as well as his love for his home country he missed her key till the very end. has brought these were powerful testament it's not beta. remembering people remembering what was lost and the sorrow at not being able to be there at the end yes yes indeed the 1st woman she we heard there was talking about her husband who was in fact a medical doctor running a hospital and he infected himself possibly at the hospital certainly the hospital had to be closed because of cover the infections during the 1st wave a year ago and what was interesting was that she expressed a lot of understanding for the medical and isolation realities as it were

that her husband had to face he himself was someone it appears who took this virus very very seriously even when elsewhere it was not yet taken seriously the fact that he died has a certain tragic irony in at. in the end she appealed to people today to respect the rules that concern culvert 19 concern of the virus to respect distancing waiting mosques and so on because you will see that she has experienced how serious this illness can be. we heard from full relatives of the victims during this and that the mix of their experiences was quite telling was and it is indeed i mean obviously they were chosen to some extent to represent certain groups of victims in general this was one person that had died actually.

as a result of called it the 2nd person that we also just heard in this clip was someone of turkish descent hundreds of thousands of men mainly men from turkey who came to germany in the sixty's and seventy's and this man was one of them to work here in this country and to start a family here and yes he died. as a result of culvert but was still very closely connected to his home country of turkey his daughter then expressed thanks particularly to the president for the ability to be able to commemorate him in this setting today then there was the young daughter of fairly young man who died in his fifty's not of cobbett but of leukemia of cancer of the blood and he died in isolation because of leukemia it was very difficult for the family to keep contact with him that too is an experience that i think many many people have shared in this process. yes and then we had

another son of a mother who was in an old age home who was starting to get dimentia and was not able really to understand very well what was happening around to that too is a very disconcerting fate for the relatives because in this state of dementia very often predators are the only anchor that people still have in in daily life in reality you might say there's one of looking at these these data realises that in the eye and confronting that nature there was there was a theme through. the president's speech was of of unity despite the isolation that that's being imposed on people yes indeed i think that was his appeal to deal with the situation deal with the conflicts and the situation and with the bitterness the anger the disappointment that the situation has caused and to work through it in

order to find new unity fighting youth strength and i think this whole ceremony was an attempt to provide some of that support some of that strength some of that unity . let's hear from the german president frank time i have been talking about hope and perhaps the hope for the future as a leader that the existential enduring experience of the pandemic is this when the chips are down and we rely on other people and other people rely on us when we don't start we will carry this lesson with us moving forward it was shaped each and every one of us and i believe that it can shape the society in which we live and the future that we will embark upon as well so we will be marked by this pandemic. but we will also grow as a result of it and we leave this pandemic behind us live breathe again more

freely we will live more freely once more. so ending with hope hans from your cd yes indeed that this hope that we can hold on together that we can stick together that we can support each other in the way that there has been enormous support in society over the last 12 months he was talking about doctors and nurses and people in care homes who went beyond their personal limits doing their jobs some of them getting infected themselves some of them even dying as a result so this faces this groundswell of reports of support that exists in society that is something he is appealing to and he's feeling that this should continue because the pandemic continues we should continue to hold on to each other and to give each other support. i do doubly political correspondent hansbrough thank you so much for all of that you're watching

a special edition of that day w. news where we've been looking at coverage of the commemorative service for the approximately $80000.00 germans who died in the coronavirus pandemic leave you now with some images from today's moving event a chance it was sent to say goodbye with dignity to those who lost their lives to country 94.

until i was frauds of my dignity 77 percent takes on modern slavery. on the fate of the many german women in the. obscene. trade. for students across the truth of their stories told. me in just 677 percent. next you. start. even in coronavirus times it is not easy to.

do. well you. people for information. in touch. hello 'd and welcome to the 77 percent platform for young africans yeah we get to talk about things that matter to you and i. my name it's great to have you on board. out today show is not an easy one because we're talking about sex trade and human trafficking yes what's coming

up. we'll meet a brave journalist who's investigation into human trafficking plus meetings new feature film. and then we'll head to beat city to talk to the real women who are trafficked to europe forced from sex work. so it's not often that we get an insight into the world of human trafficking that's in 20 that nigerian journalist over you he went on the cover to investigate she posed as a sex worker and puts her own life at risk to meet both the traffic is on potential victims and rest a geisha and expose the brutality of the criminal networks behind the business and the experience was made into the netflix film. let's take a look. thank you think i shall not be everything. until. they tell you that i was

a very good actress of screw up. its longest you know that this is not the real you and you are only on. the plot of will to refuse like a crime writers work of fiction be young journalist goes undercover to expose a sordid world of sex work and human trafficking in a nigerian city. which is now my story of the now famous netflix film was very much based on fact and the real life experiences of journalist to overeat i discover it's very bored of exploitation and i mean social economic it was psychological exploitation of women i had to because. i had to become a sex worker and mean dealing with the sex walk as. well as university of worry lost a friend who she says died after being trafficked to italy. in 2013 worry set out

to see her young woman alert into the trade she went undercover as a street walker and legless and then for 7 months. i was able to follow every day lives. 7 years down the line i still trads much as possible. human trafficking is a $150000000000.00 global industry young nigerian women are promised passage to europe but they are at the mercy of the traffickers in country rape sexual exploitation and forced labor. some of those ladies wanting to xscape from local prostitution and mean they got books so i decided to also it tries it's with them into the next level though in reality i wasn't

a sex worker but in the i mean i was a sex worker i did what they did the only thing i didn't do. was to actually do real costs. nigeria has a high number of traffic victims of the seas especially in europe direct a kind of young believes that since its release in october 21000 troops have shown in mind the nigerians criminal trafficking networks. to field hospital it changed people's perspective about trafficking but what it has done in nigeria it has been able to bring 4 of the conversation around trafficking and a lot of people like i am only thing came out it was trending for a long time one of your own social media where does. the company just do a conversation with not just die after the field. full of worry the memories of her

ordeal still haunt her. i spent every day trying to blunt out. them memories of the young women i came across even before defined our joining. of worry could not change the fate of her friend but she still searching for the women she met on the street and hopes to tell their stories. let's hope she succeeds in tracking down some of the women because they are stories told and heard now we want to find out more about this issue and meet some of the actual women who've gone through this experience so my colleague christine will go out went to the sea to your level on the italian island of sicily the region has a long standing trade relationship with nigeria specifically where they've been in a city which has become known as the base for many of these traffic and networks our team that women were tricked trafficked and forced into prostitution

here's our streets debate. this 77 percent is in italy and we're here to get the story of the slave trade of women from africa over the last 3 years 20000 women all of them nigerian many of them minors have arrived in italy via the mediterranean sea the united nations says 80 percent of them get that number again 80 percent of them are victims of trafficking or are in danger of falling into the hands of victims we're going to be hearing 1st from 2 women who know that story all too well princess i'm going to come to you 1st how did you land up in the city i came to live through a woman who was seen monday in italy. she was. a human traffic on she came so my skids and it's in my restroom because there was

a shift on i thought you think she proposed to me that i could very well i mean right that means to us that you need to state and also brummies me that if i would like to go deeply she would sponsor to me and i would be able to walk in the restaurant and say good chef. by then i didn't know anything about human trafficking in preservation and the states on the board to me in. airports with their visa and passports of british daughter and when we got through to linda sold me to one of the youngest or just finished bringing her did she was an exec the more human trafficking although that was how i was. in the area of the prostitution and she forced me into think

straight into it talk to us about how a typical day was like for you were you spending day and night on the streets what was life like as a sex worker in italy when you arrived home really it was awful i can still remember the floors that it took me to the road called the course so margarita i met a lot of women half naked and i started crying and i started praying i was so confused it was awful in the streets i took a lot of traits from because the monks some of the weekend ones beaten up i got this top of the knife i also got think gone trades you had gone from having a business in nigeria you will cooking you had your restaurant you were now a sex worker in europe how were you able to to do that how were you able to shift your mind since to carry out the work that was expected of you. yet you thought one

because of the trades on one of the judges words that they will kill me or my son that they knew and then i couldn't know and you wonder could ask for help especially because of the language barrier that i got involved with one of the klan but he learned that new law to speak english then are we able to express myself that i am not a prostitute i am not mistakes worked out really but i am a slave ok that's prince's the story placing i'm going to come over to you and start right at the same place as i did with princess how did you land up in italy when i was 19 i was not ignorance of the existence of trafficking because i wasn't been in there i lot of programs i did trafficking going on but when these women pushed me and told me about the possibility of going to 2 year old to work in the burned out shell and when i saw what she said i will be painted it was very very

encouraging and then i spoke with are we my friend i thought you know my parents then i saw you just like as if evil i've had a lot of story about this woman the 1st thing she told me was we are going to process this like you are going for it's have you i went for a job and so meets my curriculum and everything went so fine i had no no doubt no reason to be stopped i was not just release of pictures of all of the contrary when i arrived in italy i think i can remember i arrived on sunday there in the evening the fees. they told me they told me to drop everything everything that was have you with me and my posts my documents that everything after everything they told me that i was inducted with you some of the how's and you. 65000 units but i was expecting to be paid now why should i pay the so not

all 3 fancy 5000 euros then but the way the maoists talking even if they really are you on this i haue fallen into the hands of traffic as. and because. i have very wrote a lot of stories of so many things right i know many of them. that's get talked to all of us i have had a story of so many of them that that's really key then i was really frightened when i was afraid i was really traumatized then they told me i was going to do really mean that me i had no phone no me i had nothing on me i went to the streets i mayn't or dave goes but i could not really keep quiet that very evening i kept on asking questions like wow we're here is the end the way off as if

you think you know then do you not afraid all of these people the ad didn't care who's been there owes us how. blessing talk to us about how you were able to to follow through with that you knew you thought you were coming to work in a computer repair shop now you have to work on the street how we able to do that with a clear mind i don't think that there is any gil i don't think that there is an goal that will come to include i would tell you that she is walking on the road with a clear mind because you've seen many of them cry and you know what it means to get up yourself so in mother you never know do know what to me as it were mom to move with more than one month it did you think get me to do roles with where teens were i could not keep it i kind of i could remember people when asked how when the report deals with the police what are the government doing about it because you can

see that the rich should be might call bede's very very high and that is why the supply call these also have i don't want to we going to do to shift down the the mind and the supply because there is no on the mind. no one beef supply because he's so i'm mourning and so have that many gals with yeah you chill dad picnicking now life on the street because there are so many people that want to buy cells because your reason is deficient there is a god made that have their eyes closed told you due to my 9 social so many with what was taken from you what was taken away then that i believe that that very moment i thank us that i was rolled up my dignity and i was angry i was traumatised i was despair then because of these i decided i faxed just the day because it's what it's not what i dreamt of. because he's not the reason why i

stalled because it wasn't my hope it was in my spirit that is one of the reason why i decided to search for the police station to make report i would like to underline from my perspective all prosecutor that the 2 story you have been told i'm not just story. i in face of more than hundreds of cases of human trafficking and those are like a trick me row because all the girls are told they will work as waitresses they were because our dress says or as. i say it's women they look at the face book and see all the features of their friends who are in europe and they see women preachers and all the traffickers approach is friendly if i would take care of you i do not have to think about nothing i will provide to you at home a house a work that there are no good samaritan no one they are just looking

for a source of income right so this is to underline is not just 2 story this is the same story all the time ok and what is also the same story in a way and i'll come to you maria is the fact that most of the women on the streets of italy who are being sold a sex lives come from one state in nigeria i think the numbers 94 percent according to the international organization for migration 94 percent of these women come from a door state you're researching this why would that be the case and the state has a big history of migration that started to sink in eighty's when there were quite so many talents present on the ground working in some industries and who marry thank you and woman that's a narrative that is going around and what happened is that a lot of them have brought their wives to europe and what they did this started the

business that's one reason the 2nd reason there is a lot of mistakes things involved an adult it's a very interesting community it's a.