no job, no future? in china, young people are desperately looking for work. india's prostitution villages - we meet women determined to get out of poverty " this is my property right here, where we had our house my house was built in 1933. it was really a character home, beautiful, beautiful character." in canada, wildfires have destroyed many homes. we meet people who are rebuilding their lives.

canada is currently experiencing the worst wildfires in its history. while in hawaii, it took just hours for a brush fire to destroy an entire town. forest fires are becoming more common worldwide. what's life like in the aftermath? it took a long time for denise o'connor to grow accustomed to the sight of the charred trees -- silent witnesses to a disaster that's changed her life for good. "personally, i read on facebook that there was a fire at the south end of town. so i went out to take a look and sure enough it was a monster toward us." two years on lytton is slowly coming back to life - even though o'connor says it's taken too long and been bogged down in too much bureaucracy. as mayor, she's overseeing reconstruction, along with her recovery manager. "this is my property here, where we had our house.

my house was built in 1933. it was really a character home, beautiful, beautiful character." "this was one of the hottest fires we ever saw. it was 1,000 degrees at the height of the fire. it was melting and vaporizing almost everything." these images went around the world. a wall of flame devouring entire houses. lytton had been badly damaged by wildfires three times before, but it had never seen anything like this. just an hour later ...nearly the entire village had burned down. once a popular tourist destination, now it's a ghost town. only the church remains. never again, says lytton's mayor. she's changed the building code. now, all new buildings must have a fire-resistant exterior. "fire is something that's not uncommon to our area at all. you look on any of the mountains around, you'll see evidence of past forest fires.

so, you know, we need to be prepared for fire and this is one way that we can do it -- by building fire-resistant homes and buildings." a few kilometers up the mountain - here, the fire also turned everything to ash. but, new life is emerging from this charred landscape. tricia thorpe and her husband don glasgow are among the few in lytton who are once again living in their own four walls. it's a work in progress, but it's a home -- covered with fire-proof panels and a fire-resistant metal roof. "some of the most important things about the house are the fact that it's built out of cement. like i said, we used insulated concrete form, which is like adult lego. it's really cool and fairly easy to build with. and once we'd done that, the outside is all cement; it's cement board. and then, as you can see, there's metal all along the bottom here. so that will, again, give us that fire resistance if anything kind of came creeping up towards the house." their alpacas

survived the fire. but they lost 80 chickens, along with sheep and goats. at first tricia thorpe wasn't sure if she really wanted to start over again here. but when the firefighters told her they'd found her dogs alive, she knew: we're staying! "we had a litter of puppies that needed the mom. ouch! the mom and the grandma actually dug a hole in my garden and buried the puppies in the hole. it was a miracle that they made it through." "what did it mean to you, then?" "hope! laughs hope, because originally we had heard that nobody had made it." don glasgow grew up in lytton. his parents also had to start over again after a fire. "we've got two sprinklers on the roof. it keeps the metal....cools it off." the retired bus driver shows us how this protects the stalls. "with that sprinkler you've got about ten meters on the other

side of the barn where it's all wet. so if the fire comes it's going to hit that and hopefully it won't burn because everything's wet, soaking wet." reminders of the fire are everywhere. "just the two chimneys are what's left of the house. which wasn't even insured. its wooden walls burned and the metal ones melted. these photos reinforced their decision to build back better. and, thanks to the kindness of strangers, they did. "it was overwhelming. we had people that we had never met show up with a trailer load of building materials and all kinds of tools and things like that." "every time something came up it was solved. you know, it was like: you need somebody for a specialized thing, somebody would show up -- free of charge and work. it's just....that's why i say: god helped us out."

tricia takes part in the canadian program firesmart. she's learned that people aren't powerless against the forces of nature -- and that wise investments pay off. "for every dollar that you would spend being proactive, versus the reactive which costs you about 15 dollars. so if you look at that, just on a financial point of view, it's well worth doing it. never mind the emotional toll that it takes on people." market day in lytton signals a return to normality. many come not just to buy fruits and vegetables, but also for the discussions. when will reconstruction finally start? how should they protect themselves against forest fires? "the big pine trees you see here are very flammable. so we're trying to irrigate more and have more leafy trees." our community, we have a worker that was going around cutting

down brush under the trees. so when the fire did happen, it didn't come down." 38 degrees celsius. a hot, windy day -- much like that fateful one two years ago. the mayor believes a spark from a passing train likely caused the massive fire - and is thinking of precautionary measures. "either stopping the trains completely on those days when it's 45 degrees or, you know, slowing them right down going through the communities, for sure, because we're not the only community in this province with a situation like this. it could happen anywhere." there's still a long way to go until residents can return to lytton. o'connor doesn't even know when her own home will be rebuilt. but she sees the fire as a chance to do things better -- and hopes the town can serve as a role model for others threatened by wildfires.

just three hours away from india's capital new delhi is a starkly different world. i am traveling to a cluster of villages known for sex work. this is gheygoli, a village in the district of alwar in the state of rajasthan. here i meet ankita, who is a sex worker. at her request, we have changed her name. she says she's of legal age, but doesn't look it. ankita is getting ready for a client. her clients include men from nearby villages, truck drivers or migrant workers that pass through on the highways, and young men with disposable incomes. she joined the profession 3 years ago and says it was by

choice as it enables her to support her family. i know from my father that my aunt also worked like this. i got into this field due to poverty. how much are you earning at the moment?" about 60,000-70,000 rupees per month, around 750 euros. apart from me, no one in my family can find work. we were starving. we need a roof over our heads, we need to build a house. and my sister needs to get married. do you have any debt? i paid it all off. how much was it? about 11 thousand euros." oh, that's a lot - did you pay that back? yes, everything. within two years? three years. having to borrow money traps many families here in a vicious cycle. banks do not lend money since they do not consider sex work as

work - so these families turn to local lenders - who charge exorbitant interest rates, making them even poorer. rachna - we also changed her real name - is the eldest of a total of seven siblings. due to high debt, she also has to work as a prostitute - like her mother and her aunt. i was 15 when i understood what it was all about. and at the same time it became more and more clear to me how poor we are. so i got in. what was the situation? my little siblings always had to beg for food. we have no real house, no land - nothing. at some point, the money that my mother earned here as a sex worker didn't suffice. so she had to go to mumbai. in hotels you can earn more. she had to leave us alone to do so.

it became clear to me that it was the only way to make money, and essentially, for us to survive. one day i finally said to her, 'i don't want you to do this. i will take care of this. i am now the breadwinner of the family. rachna went to mumbai through an agent who recruited her by contacting local pimps in an elaborate sex trade network. there are an estimated three million sex workers in india between ages 15 and 35. sex work is legal in india - pimping and human trafficking are not. this is a matter of survival for many like rachna. they are abused in this system but stay for lack of any other avenues of work. there is a stigma attached to these villages, as the people here belong to the bottom of the caste hierarchy.

nats, bedia, banchada and kanjar, where these women come from, have traditionally been nomadic tribes. before the women were driven into sex work, these ethnic groups worked mainly as performers: dancers, jugglers, acrobats and magicians. because of their work and way of life, the british colonial power viewed these ethnic groups as a threat. in 1871 they were criminalized under the criminal tribes act, which was only repealed at the time of india's independence. stereotypes about these tribes still persist in society and makes it almost impossible for them to start other professions or means of livelihood.

i went to meet male members of a family from the community. there is a lot of discrimination. no one wants to give us decent jobs - that would mean we could climb up and out of our misery. people don't want that. so there's no change. how do you determine that? how is this noticeable in everyday life? they won't even stand or walk next to us because we belong to a low caste they tell us to go away. but it's getting better as more and more of us push to go to school. otherwise, they would not let us come near their homes. some children here don't know who their father is - of course

the mothers' customers don't give names. but this is a problem, because in many places you can only be officially registered with your father's name. so these kids fall through the cracks. but women have been able to challenge some gender roles by becoming the primary breadwinner. those who make money are strong. our women are strong. they support the family, they call the shots. the women are ahead of us here, they are immensely respected. these women are able to bring income to the families, build properties and make homes. they can pay off family debts, which not many women in india can do. some eventually leave the village - and move to the country's major urban centers, to delhi, mumbai or calcutta, some even as far as dubai.

husbands, fathers and brothers of the sex workers are involved in enabling this trade and contributing to the family economy. they act as pimps but also do house chores and raise children. most of the women we spoke to would like to move on from this life. however, something is slowly changing in the villages. i meet guddu nagar, a teacher who is supported by an ngo working to end sex work. today's lesson is about grammar. he believes a good education will help the women find safer ways of employment.

this has already worked for a few families. one girl even managed to get into the police force in jaipur, the nearest major city. another family has several children in medical professions: one boy is a lab technician, two girls are studying, one is going to become a doctor. in these families, no woman works as a sex worker. guddu nagar belongs to the same tribes. his relatives were in the sex trade too. he wanted to break the cycle. he started by teaching himself to read and write and then his relatives.

our nomadic way of life was one of the reasons it was too difficult for us to escape our misery. i have four brothers, none of whom went to school and some of my sisters are still illiterate. i was lucky. after i had taught myself a few things, a social worker from an ngo helped me. today i have an official degree and can work as a teacher. there are stories like this, but few and far between. members of the community are trying to change the destiny of the next generation. this year will see 11.6 million young people in china graduate from university. with youth unemployment at a record high, they face an uncertain future.

one in five under 24 year olds can't find a job. they looks like the ideal candidate: standing tall, big smile. no scars, and perfect nails. every detail matters in the pursuit of her dream job flight attendant. "i really want to be a flight attendant. then i could see many places, dress up every day. i'd really like that." it's rare to get exclusive permission to film at a big company in china. but this time, the authorities granted our request. we're allowed to attend a casting in wuhan. with the end of travel restrictions, hainan airlines is hiring again, and the interest is huge.

"hainan airlines has already held 30 events this year, and we've received 40-thousand applications. we chose wuhan as a location, because there are a lot of renowned universities here with well-educated students." first, the candidates are fingerprinted. then, their measurements are taken. the casting takes 3 days, and there are 700 applicants. only 10 percent will actually get a job, so there's a lot of pressure. "the competition is tough. i can only do my best. and hope that we all find our dream jobs, someday." but landing their dream job is a fantasy for many young people in china today. most would be happy just to secure any job at all.

a situation that's causing widespread frustration. people are lining up here, as if they were going to a pop concert - waiting for an hour in the rain. but they're not here to dance and sing - rather, to pray. i meet many students at beijing's lama temple - even though it's rare to see people praying in china. there's only one institution people are supposed to put their faith in: the communist party. so it's astonishing to see so many young people here, kneeling before the buddha. "i'm praying that i find a job. since finishing school, i've not had any luck with applications. i've been looking for a while, but there aren't many jobs available. it's tough seeing my classmates struggling with this situation, too.

and so they burn incense, and look for support from a higher power. the party that controls all aspects of chinese life can no longer offer them any security. temples in china have sold three times as many entry tickets this year, than the year before. half of the visitors are in their mid-20s, or younger - a new development. i want to know how these young people are doing. repeatedly, i hear that job hunting has become a psychological burden. "last year, i applied for 60 jobs, and had 20 interviews. this year is worse - 100 applications, and just 10 interviews the prayer wheels keep turning. since the pandemic, many sectors of the chinese economy have been slow to recover. the crisis has hit young people particularly hard. one in five people under the age of 25 is currently unemployed,

and those are just the official figures -- a record high. and there are more university graduates than ever before. 11.6 million are entering the job market, thanks in part to a backlog at universities, with exams being postponed due to the pandemic. that's what happened to zhi zhang. in the temple courtyard, he tells me he's studying software development. he's also come here to pray. while lighting incense, he explains that studying at a university is now a part of the chinese dream. "this year, there are far more university graduates than before. a record number. and that's good, because it shows there are more and more educated people in china." that was one of president xi

jinping's major promises: less poverty, more education. but for this generation, the dream has become a nightmare, with xi now telling young people they should learn to “eat bitterness.” meaning, they should go where they can be of service to china, and the party. and that means moving from the cities to the countryside, taking jobs they haven't trained for, and may not want. but some young people are pushing back, posting memes on social networks featuring kong yiji, a failed scholar with no job prospects. in one song, kong yiji would rather go hungry, than do manual labor. the song was being viewed 4 million times a day - fast becoming an anthem for china's disillusioned youth. communist party officials deemed it a threat and censored the video.

we meet wong at one of the few job fairs in the chinese capital. he's just finished a master's degree in fashion marketing - and wants to find work in his field. wong studied in south korea. a foreign degree was once a golden ticket to success in the chinese job market. but now, wong wonders if he should have stayed abroad. "the job market there is okay. loads of students who graduated along with me have already found jobs." wong's job search isn't going well. few firms are hiring at the moment - not even some at the job fair. three years of the pandemic have taken their toll on economies all over the world. we just have to put things right again. it'll all

work out somehow. back at the flight attendant casting. bai jingyi has made it to the final round. she and the other finalists now have one last chance to prove themselves to the jury. everything runs like clockwork, with military discipline. "i really hope that i make it through, and that i get this job. i'll do my very best if i get to be a flight attendant." around 70 lucky candidates in wuhan are offered jobs as flight attendants and immediately have their company photos taken for hainan airlines. but bai jingyi is not among them. instead, she remains one of the hundreds of thousands of young people in china searching desperately for work.

live from berlin. russia's headquarters, in flames after ukraine and missile strike. russia's defense ministry says one servicemen is missing after a long-range missile hit the building on the next crimean peninsula. also on the program, china and syria agreed to closer ties as the syrian leader visits china for the first time in nearly 20 years. we will ask what the two sides hope to gain here.