what bio char really do for agriculture? a unique long term trial seek sentences to these questions. to borrow today. in 60 minutes on dw, we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. magic corner trip. hot spot for food check and some great cultural memorials to boot d w. travel off we go. ah, ah, the mediterranean was once a major crossroads at the heart of the ancient world. today, it has become a barrier separating europe from africa. is there anything left of a passion once share, and what do today's distinct cultures have in common?

journalists, xena, l mosque, rog and joe power abdul karim, travel the coast of the mediterranean, in search of answers. do you see yourself as of today? and you used to go to rights and responsibilities. how can you afford to say and true these animals god help you with join us to get to know the people and their dreams. a mediterranean jeremy. ah. hi. today i'm on the largest island in the mediterranean sicily, as you'll be able to see quite easily. i mean, there are a lot of love are wrong,

but in these parts, why this is the home at the volcanic mountains, nothin ah sicily lies just beyond the coast of tunisia. cataneo the islands, 2nd largest city is nestled beneath the mountain. traditionally citrus fruit has long been grown in this 1st hail reachin let's see if i can help with the wind to harvest. if i find myself as an orange plantation, this made it like a lemon. but it's an orange buttons. i'm going to jump right in because i want to make myself useful and i've got the right boots for the job away to big bull, effective, effective around 1500000 tons of citrus rates are produced every year on sicily, organic pharma man play decline,

audi harvest's around to $100000.00 kilos of our inches. no, just in the province of catania, but in other provinces as well. oh, tommy, what a special about are under i p out on sicily love specially thought with this region . special g is the blood orange, inside the fruit, there was this intense red color that's typical for this region. so for the area around cataneo and close to aetna, tanya, this is because the mountain causes temperatures to change quickly. they will end this strong difference between day and night. colors. the orange is locked, the ok for secret lunches. easy going on. mm. ah, don't enjoy your sal all your orange us and what does it mean for the farm up here in the region? we've got a rather special distribution channel and we sell to acquisition. or in other words,

private individuals who join forces that to develop a relationship with the products they're buying. and these are almost always organic hail. our farming methods have been exclusively organic since 1992 and my father started it and my brother and i carry on the traditional. we really believe it's the future. ah, if i think it's time for me to try, one of these are inches this. i picked to myself, it smells amazing. it's very, do say, and sweet and phases delicious cup. but what about the inevitable beds it 5? you won't believe it, but someone here on sicily has come up with a really innovative way to put them to use. catania is more than just an airport or a way to get to the beach. and in december, it can get pretty cold. here. i'm here to meet to enrica arena.

her company orange fiber is based in an old plant. so in the old town, i was nice for me to meet you. thank you for a tire is my pleasure. okay, hold of me. i'll show you around about 10 years ago and rica and her colleague came up with the idea of combining to iconic italian products, citrus fruits and fashion. you take the orange and you squeezy. and what you have left is pretty much 50 percent of the original way. so what we thought is a way to transform this byproduct into something meaningful for the fashion industry. and there's a family of materials that are called men made cellulosic fiber. and they all contain cellulose as a common entre what is necessary. so white pop, it's everything that is not water. oh and then from that we extract the cellulose and the cellulose that we extract at look like these pretty much so it's like paper

no yeah. touch a slide. com look. yeah, exactly. we saw a lot of things see ask. i think it's the top or something. yeah. how this is knocked off? yeah. and we have a scar here at the scott, scott: yeah, it looks very amazing on you. orange fiber has already made a name for itself. it supplies fashion companies across the spectrum with a seemingly endless supply of ru material on hand. there's still plenty of scope for development. wow. and left them to almost catania. you can see from here and by dia, decent, i get that where you can see people to be when you work on a place like this was amazing. you, you get more inspiration than i think it's, it's good for your company, your vision, and it's a pleasure to all your clients and hold meeting with other people and also just

work by yourself. surrounded by beauty. cataneo is a port city in east in sicily. many residents still depend on fishing for their livelihoods. from enriquez office, it's not far to the puerto would say the fish market. the sci fi looks irresistible, but i find myself drawn to something else. to sicilian men singing la, la, la, la la bravo! do your boy no more. good bye john. oh hello. how to prepare that one on wednesday until denny. she's on the grilled artichoke. filled with garlic and parsley. okay. you can just eat it like

that. oh, good. all good. oh that's good for the cathedral square with the black love a rock elephant is the heart of the city. all the main shopping straits fan out from here. the piccolo tiara through is also just a short walk away. it traveled. i'm here for a very special meeting with a young man. i notice right here under on. oh munoz, robert. my name is c f. u. so know go lavetia gala basha moore. i don't know, may or may nicola o e, norma, but what color a perishable kick? mapr tidmore thought, a mighty parole bugle me fondly base she jewel yeah, julia b. c. the model roll them on the, on your peer group, but it's yours are very similar to yours. he basically gotten the okay,

there seems to be a lot to talk about here. but what i want to know is who's pulling the strings? i'm going to take a look at allow davi there. wow. if you're thank you for having me. yeah, thank you. who are a very talented man? can you tell me more about your work with papa so de la fortuna. d quinn. all shitty. i was fortunate enough to learn the wonderful arts from my grandparents a seem to be call them ever since i'm a small. they are passionate about my art for god. or my 1st experience on stage was as the money until the person that moved to public is more of a oh, the history of sicily is pure drama, and few can tell it stories as well as the for daily napoli. ketani is most famous family of puppeteer. oh, oh, you really can be neat. soon. theater in sicily began around the

year 1830 or so. yet it flourished until the arrival of cinema and television and the 19th sixty's says, the leak when that was the beginning of christ's law that her family survived or any thanks to the tenacious nurse and come up with my grandparents the name on me. okay. not a rental terminal, not to give way to the looming monstrosity. that was television data. lot the ladies yawning. for generations, local children have grown up plenty about the sicilian, mixed up the middle ages. they're very familiar with the heroes and heroines that feature in the legend. oh, we have here, children and adults, they come and watch your, your, your show or not. what i meant at the, um, what it is. we have a very broad repertoire without from carolyn genetics off through the shakespearean tragedies shakes. next week. we're presenting a very special text or anti fascist, not on the property can truly do anything a little needle. the sicilians maintain

a special bond with momma aetna then nicknamed the to list active volcano in europe . vulcan ologist, you said, pe salon know takes me up the mountain we start inc. atanya in glittering sunshine, 3000 meters above sea level. it's a completely different picture with what can interrupt what can happen to the people in catania, and what are the factors on the pants are obviously of the kind of an option one think these are very, very low. are to do that option where the lower floor can reach to the doubts, not anyway, since 20 or whoever barry, these are astonishing gets placebo option. but to the effect is not to saw stronger

from the society. they'll effect these are the dash that fall out in there in the towns and surrounding great around, but that kind of exposure activity the last few hours that it's quite windy up there and i've had enough. okay, we get out of the colds. you're into the car and drive back down the mountain sheep were headed for the national institute, video, physics, and vulcan, ology to what's known as the warren. here scientists keep a close eye on aetna. it's one of the world's most active volcanoes and put on a sporadic lava display to remind us of that fact the season that the center line jewelry war where all the morning to activity of the see she them were council of just ethanol also will colonel strongly it also

about his, his mc activity in part of the c. c, these models written during the 4 hours 7. they, you show me this monitoring thing. but what done, yeah, here we are a leica and also with them me go. so we the several part i meters. we are shaking sagan's by sagan's, the life, the behavior of i had them out from valuable gum. so add a thing here and the boss to try to photograph it up because the meeting day by day is look like that to you here in sicily. call for aetna, mama. if not the yeah. why? if you're born here, when you go open your eyes, the face, the things i think you spoke to. so we grew up with is a huge mountain torso for the rest of the life. so it's something like a mom mom. hm.

for me, mama, aetna was a very cold experience and i'm glad to be heading back to miles and mediterranean climbs to palermo to be precise. so my next meeting i have to travel across the island from the east to its capital city. almost 700000 people live in palomino. for a long time it was seen as the stronghold of the sicilian mafia until pups of the population started to push back. ah, the 2 men you see behind me on the facade of that building a giovanni, 5, corny and paolo boastfully know that the 2 judges supposed organized crime on this island and paid for it with their lie aladdin smith. jim leaving for the sun

in the historic center of palermo, i meet key out of wood tro from the anti mafia movement. a deal, pete. so more and more business people are refusing to pay protection money to the mafia and they're making no secret of it. they're putting stickers in their shop windows. mm. a lot of people after neighborhoods about the mafia. yeah. why, what do you think behind this fascination alone, i'll see what's so booked up for that or what? yes, unfortunately, that's true. and it is highly detrimental to those who are trying to fight against the mafia every day. very often, this fascination emanates from stories and books and movies of the godfather, for example, even. but there's nothing charming or glamorous about the mafia. father, the mafia is violence and harassment, and when the functional law mafia yolanda saw everybody got fuel on it,

but when it did slows association started their work. okay. and left up to another movie association, emerged in 2004, but initially by chance, when a group of university friends decided they wanted to open a bong, she had i was preventing up to carly said, how are we going to deal with a math yours the who come to demand extortion money from our list, or are we prepared to pay? the answer was clearly know what the school still forgot it. that was the thought of humans to know a deal peak so means, well, well pete, so or extortion? money? kiara altro. has been involved with the initiative since her student days. now she works as a tour guide showing tourists, the other palomino without the mafia. we meet valentina a shop owner who also refuses to pay the pizza. i father official logo over there. had, did you ever have problems with the mafia come to you and say, hey go,

i think you have to pay for it? no, no, no, no. we've never had any problems. having the logo in the store scares these people off of best buy. so we've never had any issues, and from that was from one people on a bill. my older problem, me to put a norwegian out of sunni killed g r, but a thing, but i saw new generations opening and running businesses in sicily to day have a different mentality one, keep up and that's why they're not paying all of a seamless up and fortunately, there's no way of knowing how many are actually paying the number's probably gone down, but that doesn't mean we should be dropping our god. after all, even if it's not extorting any one, the mafia is trying to assert its dominance. in other ways, you cannot, the more it's remarkable how valentina and many other business people in sicily taking a stand against the mafia. tragedies occur almost daily in the poor to spell ammo and across the region as a whole. the mediterranean sea is now the world's deadliest c crossing. last year

alone, almost 1600 people died or went missing, trying to reach your up from africa. the maris palermo nail, luca orlando, allows rescue vessels to duck in the city, in defiance of orders from central government. it's no surprise that we're meeting at the motif. i take a cafe and education project for young refugees. i would like to know why i was so open ended and support see watch and all the people who helped the people in the see i mash hold just people. no risking a human being. i gave to the crew. she watch, including

a couple other kids in the others and as she poked palermo and, and she watch sheet. but there is the plug that she go. palermo caused the people in this. she cannot be left body. sometimes people talk about migration and problems, but you have other view of the situation with my question, i have been on the view because soon we have no migrant in follow lose. upa was problem for your with the migration, i'm not my. they met the problem that was that norfolk seats of their opponent. mm hm. okay. i made a movie fusion. we do a new voice warning. palermo. yes. for that, we're just leaving baltimore actually for you. yeah. but from my home i've issue not a problem. okay. you really believer when to wish it wouldn't stay your plan, a blind that will condemn the to eat, but easy to we are drown, leave in this part of the war. and the we believe that meet the radio is not the

she is a common is not as she dividing the people, e one is a comin of what type julian to corbin, just written to people to nibble to me. so when you come in palermo, you free. let pope now i'm traveling out of the presence across the island to traces of the islands passed in syracuse and the backend antiquity. syracuse was the largest and wealthiest city in the entire mediterranean region. half a 1000000 people lived here, then almost 4 times as many as to day. mm i. today i'm in the syracuse and the oldest out of the town is actually an island i own this or teacher based on the ancient greek word for quail. this little corner of the world produced a number of things including comics, eta,

and the 1st christian community in your home with 40 cheerfulness, the city's historic center. to day 3 bridges connected with the rest of syracuse, i had straight for the old town and on the piazza, camille day, i discovered the goddess of hunting. diana protect her of syracuse in the greek erupt right next to her. the cathedral of santa maria dela colony modica is about an hour drive from syracuse highlights of this unesco wild heritage site, or its magnificent pellets, see and but rocks sacred buildings. here the picturesque town of modica is home to the islands, oldest chocolate factory. the chocolate is made according to ancient as tech

methods. i'm about to try some myself. and if you're wondering how asked tech cocoa beans got here in the 1st place, a parcel to do with the spaniards, who once occupied these islands. at the antique dojo, d auburn, a u t o i'm due to meet the head of the family business, francesco router for a tasting. they've been making chocolate in modica since 1880. francesco explains the production process, so what makes the chocolate? so special ed, you have to do it a little select ah, okay. like this one here to yeah, it's a volume to put it in the oven. yes. okay. is this this one here? right? yes. okay, and here i know someone who's unable to resist. good chocolate, my colleague jennifer. he's taking

a break from his mediterranean journey to visit me in sicily. oh hey, what are you doing here? i wanted to surprise you actually. oh, good to see you again. i wanted to find out what you've been up to. yeah. yeah, we'll talk about that in a minute. i don't want to interrupt you this looks really interesting. yeah, almost as yeah. you should try the chocolates. i love doing that. those are rawson suits. like miss johnson almost. so you're like you were shivers were the quicker window was it breaks the seats and so fight the seats from the shells. ok. we make soup quote from us, our 100 percent with sugar. and it looks like a grain grainy if you want a bottle of chocolate here to ship into the more lead you can try very long. i see here you have

different favors. you have a saw, you have monday and you have ginger. you want to try lemon? yes. yes, yes. so we have here lemon. yeah. wonderful. so 65 percent run. 65 percent is 65 percent coupon most the other part is sugar. do you still it every day? chocolate. yes. and this one is with, this is the cinema one, the one that i use my he goes, i love this kind of chocolate or is this man my grandfather? that's all right. well we made so good. now it's so good. it's really good. i think it's my favorite to now with we've been on our mediterranean journey for 2 years now, interrupted by a global pandemic. and we're not finished yet. time phillip,

back with you. i mean, we've experienced so much. what surprised you them of ashed last actually nothing because it's everywhere i've been. i felt just a little bit at home ever since ohausen. i've always discovered something that i've been familiar with from morocco for a sample and sometimes from gemini. o. oh, and i'm what really impressed me was that all those southern regions are often seen as i'm to develop the mom. we've discovered an incredible amounts of innovation. and that's been inspiring and encouraging to script off mood. thus, michelle mason vague, talk to what stayed with me the most is with all the countries we visited, things are changing. cortez as they're in the midst of a searching process on and on. and i even call it i democratization process dimension. i'm people have an incredible yearning to be seen and to be heard on

robbie for long enough. the honda cannot vouch hutsel finch. my hope we can listen to each other. morton and the people on all sides achieved the kind of life there striving for dust, have eyes on dusty and resist us to the steps. ah i am in ah ah, ah ah, with

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