they want to know what makes agenda love via banning thing away. i'm not going to move my own car. everyone with later holes and every day getting you ready to meet the german, then join me, rachel, do it on the w. two's a warm welcome to a brand new edition of focus on europe. my name is liz show, thanks for joining us today. for many women from west africa, the dream of coming to europe often and in a nightmare. more than 10000 young women from nigeria fled to europe. many of them ended up in the hands of human traffickers,

according to un estimates up to 80 percent of nigerian women who crossed the mediterranean, a force into prostitution by their fellow countrymen. this man who calls himself david knows a lot about this dark business. 10 years ago, he was a member of the nigerian mafia earning money to human trafficking and forth prostitution. but then he quit. and since then his life has been in danger. our reporter met david in italy, where the nigerian mafia is gaining more and more influence the town of castell tournament. once a tourist resort is now a mafia stronghold, a place where sheer violence rules, the nighttime on an industrial estate, young african prostitutes, and looking for clients. you can see similar things on streets across decently. most of the women from nigeria, the u. n says that up to 80 percent of them are victims of human traffic is that

was her fate to will call her juliet. the nigerian woman tells us that she arrived here in a refugee boat 4 years ago and fell into the hands of the nigerian mafia. the faith we go like, are you ready to pay the money or not? and guesses no. i'm tired. i don't want to do this walk anymore and they continue to be go, no food, no water. the log, the gold inside the room for 4 days on the phone call. huh. so also they are heartless. in running, we meet a man will call david, he tells us that he was a member of the nigerian mafia for many years, but left after witnessing the murder of a woman forced into prostitution, they cut the person into pieces, then they package it. so for example, if it were 10 people that know the dead body, you carry one kilo, i carry one kilo,

he carries one key level. everybody will dispose of it, you will never trace the person. you can never have the person again, the person is missing, just gone. gone. one of the strongholds of the night jury and mafia is the southern italian town of castillo, vall, tuna, often the young women are under the control of other nigerians so called madams who pimp them out. experts estimate that criminal networks and hundreds of millions of years with forced prostitution. julia tells us that she managed to escape and find safety in this women's shelter. almost all the women here used to be prostitutes like her. they came to europe because they could no longer endure the poverty back home. you being a youth and you're living j o already did. although you are living you i did because there is no hope for the youths. the little ones

that are even coming up there is nothing human traffic is exploit that desperation. they lose women with false promises, often financing their long journeys across the desert and the mediterranean. once they are in europe, the young women at told that they have tens of thousands of years of debt that they have to work to repay. sergio navarro is well acquainted with these tactics. he acts as an advisor to the italian parliament and he mafia commission, offering his expertise on nigerian organized crime and its ties to the italian mafia. nigeria murphy, it's dangerous, but they deal with drug trafficking, prostitution mailing internet scott card credit fraud not to control the economy or back to feet. who is in the public administration in political labors is the time matthew saw who is more dangerous,

yet visible in the street in the south strategic plane made by the mafia. so let's out, sir, se the crime. they are the bad guys. the ad on the street, we had invisible because the main goal of matthew is to be quite silent. mike, the italian mafia, the nigerian crime network is divided into different syndicates or secret societies . according to former member david, they now operate throughout europe, and their methods are increasingly brutal. david says he still has contexts in the scene who feed him information. however, i have a video. if i show you the video, you will cry what, what happened to a girl child forced to do the prostitution was because she refused to do the prostitution. the criminals can literally get away with murder. because most of the nigerian women are illegal migrants. most of most of them are ghosts. they're not

registered, nobody knows about them. the government doesn't know anything about them. they're here. they don't have documents or anything. so if they die, it's very difficult for the government to know that this person is missing. juliet now has an official residence permit and she has found a job in a restaurant, but her life is far from normal. she is constantly sexually harassed by men. the disgusting oh my god. yeah, terrible. you see they stopped going and coming. there was such a thing that really gets me annoyed if they will bring god morning, it will be short like what is 20 euro so i cannot say down in the garden peace without being interrupted. that's your walking boy. i want to sleep with you for me is disgusting. juliet wants to

put the nightmare that she suffered behind her. but she knows that other women from nigeria will continue to end up in street prostitution here to satisfy the demand for cheap sex. she says, this is not the better life in europe that she once dreamed of police attacking protesters, prison sentences for members. i'll be opposition, like alex, in a volume and russian citizens who take a critical sense are seeing their freedom. car tailed when the country holds parliamentary elections, the full president put in his party intends to win clear victory. so he's silencing critics ahead of the vote. the editors of the students magazine doctor in moscow are experiencing the repression themselves. they stand for a different kind of russia with different values, and they are determined not to be intimidated.

the, these 2 are getting married in moscow today. both of them wearing a dress. the students say they want to make a statement for tolerance, love, and freedom. the couple and many of their guests, right, for the critical moscow student magazine dogs, including you could tell, you know, model the 25 year old has been an editor for the online platform for 2 years. and she says this wedding has raised her spirit at the moment. it seems like everyone have each other. the government says, and there is political repression everywhere. here, there is love everywhere. that conclusion, but there's a serious reason for the joyous celebration. the couple is marrying. so they can't be forced to testify against each other in court. that tyler gave it, and 3 other dogs had journalists have been accused of inciting minors to take part in unauthorized anti crumbling protests. an investigation is ongoing. for months

now, they have only been allowed to leave their homes for 2 hours a day. they could face up to 3 years in prison. yes, yes. and you know, to be honest, i didn't understand what age of the stories. he's seen a student magazine, but i guess that must be something after all, we have managed to build up and i just really strong freethinking people. it's probably enough that we have had a sort of cross street initiative from that with very horizontal structures and without hierarchies, which gives me something strange and comprehensible and a scary for the or thursday afternoon. or earlier this year, docs are recorded about russia, white protests in support of arrested opposition. politician alixia. now by me, it criticized russian universities for pressuring students to stay home and not take part in demonstration. like other media outlets don't. then

faced police searches and arrests students and young people came out in solidarity with the journalists. but pressure on the critical media is growing across russia. several media outlets have been declared foreign agents. meanwhile, at an economic forum in june, where the mere putin had only praise for the state of freedom of speech, stoker, we have so many news channels in russia. so many internet channels got so many different opinions. in the media, you hear such a critical opinion is topic and assessments of the government as well as of yours truly. lest you, i don't think such harsh criticism exists in many countries to work, and all these journalists are just continuing their work. nothing is happening to them to the same place. where did you katerina maroka is visiting someone who would disagree with that was the new york in is one of 4 journalists from the student

magazine doctor who could face present with that since april. he has been under de facto house arrest. the 26 year old isn't allowed to use the internet and can only leave his house for 2 hours a day. he has to wear an electronic ankle monitor. it was already clear that this steam roll was rolling over more and more people putting pressure on them. and that at some point it would get to before donna would come down when this whole thing started in april, while the trees were still bare. and i thought, oh well i guess i'll just sit inside then, but then you see that it's spring. and of course you just want to be outside for the mere lives with his mother. a rushing human rights organization has designated him and the other 3 docs that journalists with ankle tags as political prisoners. your katerina is trying to keep them involved in the work of the magazine. in american batman, that's the good news. no, any of us could have ended up in that lay. the fact that they got lucky i was just

a coincidence press to the question. i know it could have just as easily been me in the situation. because i know that the only thing we can do is to support them somehow despite the political pressure around 30 students currently, right for doc. so since the police search, they haven't had an office, mostly they discuss their work online. they say that is usually safer. the official so when the police searched office, i thought a lot about why i am so scared, but i'm not leaving. i came to the conclusion that it doesn't really matter what job i do. if the people at the top one to pass it, you just, they well, no matter what the playing and generally become a crime in russia. everything you do, everything you publish seen by the authorities as an attack or threat discrimination, l g b t q. i writes corruption, the student's reporting hardly chose the official line. today they're taking new

photos since the criminal case against them, the magazine has gained a lot of new readers. that gives you katina hope at the court. does the fire that business journalist, your work isn't going out? i mean, i don't want to cross journalism in masha off my list completely. there are no other magazines or media outlets left where i feel free. then we'll just have to start a new one. that will probably also be closed and declared for an agent, but that's just the reality of the moment. it's a reality, you know, says the journalist, that dog so want to face, they say all those who dare to be critical in russia have to make sure to stick together the we now take you to northwest in spain, where my normal at and then this is back on a pilgrimage, because then they make for him and hundreds of thousands of others to take

a break from their spiritual wanderings. now he's returned to the camino de santiago or way of saint james the route as a place for him to get in tune with himself and reflect. but it's not so much about which of the paths he takes because in the end they all lead to santiago. they're compet stella, its 6 am and my know her non days is already on the road. it says 99th time walking the way of saint james. this time, the 65 year old wants to walk from lid it to the catholic pilgrimage sight of santiago to accomplish stella in 3 days. in this life. the birds seem the color when you are at home in your city, your village, inside, you don't feel this live the law. and my daughter, you don't receive it. even if even here you can enjoy real life. the world that

then that he's after get home. my know is a lawyer from sat down a city near barcelona. he made his 1st pilgrimage 24 years ago to get back into shape after a nice opperation. the religious side of the camino is foreign to him. so yet they are going to hear her. yes, i'm an atheist. the thank god meeting the walking gives me a lot, but nothing religious. it gives me physical and mental strengths, and a love of life. got not the be in finished at manolo has his pilgrim passport, stamped to prove he was here. he needs to walk at least a 100 kilometers on the route to get his certificate or compost, stella. good morning. can i get the pilgrim stamp here? for over a 1000 years, people from around the world have been making the pilgrimage to spain can leave the

region to the shrine of saint james and santiago since the one $900.00 seventy's, it's been something of a cult. the locals have grown used to the visitors. it looks better with the pilgrims life, he has changed it. there's more terrorism watson in the beginning. they went welcome people who saw them as people with no money who will just in use and given the what is that order today there an economic factor in the finish region, the status, at least that was the case until the corona virus had demick, florida closures and lock downs meant fewer pilgrims visiting hospitals and restaurants with now pub owners like popular lopez are slowly trying to get back on their feet. give you a can. it's important that the pilgrims that coming back and it gives us a good feeling and helps us forget the past year that you give us all i know has already covered

65 kilometers, stopping at a hostile overnight. he's more than halfway there, but it's peter sore. it's a struggle. last year he was hit hard by a covert infection and he still feeling some of the effects on me the last day when the i recovered from covered and left the hospital. but it was as though something was missing on there myself, that i love it. well, that i can now to be able to return to the camino de santiago despite the virus and all the difficulties. it's like having a 2nd life is this. it will be after 3 days, he has reached santiago, the destination of all pilgrims on the way of saint james. all the my know though has made it for the 99th time. you go to

campus, stella in latin with the cathedral stamp victim. we're not really, and now he wants to greet an old friend, so to speak. here saint james is said to be buried. standing face to face with the saint is enough to make even an atheist like manolo feel devout. the secret, the visa in the circle of life closes with death and i'm afraid of it and i'm no stranger to it. and in fact, when it approaches me, i want to meet it in a place that gives me lives in the middle of when my time comes. and i want to die on the camino de santiago new. camino diablo, but not just yet. for now, my know low is already planning his next pilgrimage. his 100 will be a very special one. is no secret that

these are immensely important. life on earth, they carry poland from flower to flower and by doing so secure our food supplies. but in recent years, more and more b colonies have died away in france, their numbers have gone down by a staggering 30 percent due to pesticides, pests and mono cultures. beekeeper is really that is citing this negative trend. he love his bees, but he never thought that other people would show quite so much interest in his insect friends. the beekeepers yet barrel had it be high school in february. he's determined to never let that happen again. i was eating, when i saw on my phone, someone taking away might be hives in a wheelbarrow she to protect his livelihood. he's all those cameras in all his

behind. so as soon as there is movement, photo sent to his phone, the fest in february cause the many precious be colonies damage amounting 220000 euros. the last one. it's not just the hives that vanish when they're stolen, but they're living creatures. and of course, all the work you've put into them, would you come off? she has been a beekeeper for 12 years here. 35 kilometer south west of cars. he now has a 1000 b hives and he raises extra robust bees. live in the month when a we specially bred our queens and male bees drones to be resistant to problems such as borrow. and the problem on that just happened was that his b i require to faces danger that either or the b population is declining. 30 percent of the colonies in france died off recently. it is to float off the basis

suffering from climate warming. for instance, the flat was blossoms too early, and then they froze over again. and new kinds of parasites from asia also making the be sick. then the manager on piece the price is for these have skyrocketed because so many b colony of a falling gale. we meet an official from the national union of french be keeping b. s is a huge issue. 617 behind have already been reported. standing in front this year at 50 percent from the same time last year. no. on the one hand, you have people who want to maintain their stock without putting into much work. on the other, you've got people who take advantage of the fact that hives are easily accessible to make money that proceeded along. alexandra gray is a beekeeper who lives 50 kilometers north west of paris. he too was robbed, and the thief was never caught. he was to make sure this never happens again,

and has a plan to protect his 200 b. hives he consulting? i don't know. who makes gps track is that a place in the hive to track would be thief. you could exam movement. there is any movement i can see on my cell phone where my hive is. if it's stolen, i have a link that i can send directly to the police, so they can track the theme. like when you go to each device cost 17 years, the be high, the gps track has a new and highly coveted. several 100 highs are already being monitored. we haven't developed this product at the request of beekeepers contact yet. they contacted us and we adapted our logistics and industry products to be hives being certain that many cases of beef that remain unsolved. and even when the thief, the court, the punishments are relatively mild. we meet trillion parent again. thanks to the

photos, the person who stole his hive could be convicted. it was a neighbor rule. when the little we are really happy that we were able to track down the thief, and this won't go on punished printed off. it's. julia wants to focus on the future . the weather is looking better and that these high season is beginning for a missed call in serbia. it's always the right season to visit one, the special place for 50 years. he's been going to a rock in the middle of the green river. it's an amazing beautiful location, but it's also a place with a bitter past. every day, lily and her own our mission. take a boat over the dream river into their very own little world. the the cabin perched in the middle of the river was a crazy teenage idea,

mika and poor of his friends, built it on the rock near the border town of buying a boston 7 times in total. chloe. we have in 2011 and the, and the 1st one in 1988. so this, that, those, it's a never ending labor of love. it started out as the shanty where the boys could get out in party. and each time the river destroyed the cabin, they built it back up again. served our persistence says mischika. even when flood waters come up to here. and there, inventive, these hinges are designed to protect the cabin in the future. miss cook can simply fold up the walls and take out the furniture and then be out that way there's no resistance to the water and it can flow through the cabin like through a tunnel. so we hope the structure will remain intact,

be at this level and you might think the cabin is fragile, but it's been an enduring element in his life. when you get sloppy, descended into war and the 1990 s, everything changed me? scott took on our jobs and headed to mexico to avoid being drafted his cabin got through the conflict unscathed. unlike the people. in august, so very many muslims and served were good friends before the war. the people, whenever the problem just politics some politic the world was started by the politicians, not the people. and with the war came close. yeah. door sla matters. now. mistrust of the authorities is common in this region and it's typical for people to maintain a place as a retreat. nice guy just happens to have a very special one. ah, ah,

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