the young fish from the farms are later released in the danube. but this fish breeder, andre bezusenco, says some so-called fish farms are only pretending to breed sturgeon. >> we suspect that some companies work together with the poachers. they declare that they bred the fish, and that allows them to sell them legally on the market. but in fact they are selling wild sturgeon. >> and so a regular sturgeon mafia has spread in the danube delta. >> of course, everyone's involved in the business, even police officers. some of them have their own poaching gangs. here in the delta, everyone knows everyone. no one sees what you do. not even the devil. >> in the evening, the rangers return to their station. this time their search was again in vain, the poachers were faster. all the rangers could secure were the nets. >> these nets are made specifically to catch sturgeon. they have a very fine, very tough weave. not even the smallest, youngest sturgeon no chance to escape. >> fishing for sturgeon has been banned here for almost 10 years. but there is so mu

he's a third generation fisherman on the river danube. almost every day he heads to the bridge in belgrade. this is where a simple fisherman often becomes a here. the danube is 17 meters wide. the water is 12 meters deep. many people come to the bridge to kill themselves. >> you can't mistake the sound when a person hits the water. it's a thudding sound. it's bigger and livelier than anything else. it's loud at this bridge, but the sound of a person falling into the water is different to all other sounds. >> in the middle of belgrade's heavy traffic on this dull steel and concrete bridge, people come to end their lives. in recent years numerous people have leapt into the danube. but he has saved many of them, 27 in all. >> most people think the jump will be the end. but as soon as the cold water wakes them from their inner delirium, as soon as they realize what's happening they try to stay alive. some scream for help, others silently watch and wait for help. but they all want to be saved. >> one of the people he rescued from the danube is

budapest straddles the danube river. on the west side is hilly buda, dominated by castle hill.royal palace marks the place where one of europe's mightiest castles once stood. since the 14th century, hungary has been ruled from this spot. >>> and that's all for this edition of "newsline." >> in parts of the philippines, undergoing a lot of change recently.

put on a rubber raft with my 11-year-old sister and my father and mother and we paddled across the danube on august night and told that searchlights were across the water and guard towers were there. the cold war had begun and on both sides the sense of foreboding was deep. i was six months old. i was six months old and i was drugged. if i cried out at night we would die. my life claim from came from this plays the years of 1940 and 1945, 31 years in which europe went from an extraordinarily civil and decent place to a life of extraordinary barbarism and my family was shaken by that. my father's nightmares, my mother's nightmares, every night they would go back to the past. and for me the cold war was the defining element of my life in many ways and that grew out of this timeframe. and so they came to accept being genuinely american and not living in texas of all places, you can't be more american than that, can you? [laughter] and so growing up in new york moving around the country i always have this tension between myself as an american, where i went to school and grew up and a hungaria

put on a rubber raft with my 11-year-old sister, my father and my mother and we paddled across the danube on an august night in 1949. i am told searchlights were playing the cross the water. guard towers and machine guns were a raid. our meeting was a matter of life and death. the cold war had begun in earnest. on both sides the sense of foreboding was deep. i was 6 months old and i was drug because had i cried out at night we would have died. so my life came from this case, the torture of what i call 30 one years. the years in 1914, and 1945. in which europe went from an extraordinarily civil and decent place to in life of extraordinary barbarism. my family was shaped, my father's nightmares and my mother's nightmares every night went back to their past. the cold war was a deciding element of my life in many ways and that grew out of this period. the -- americans living in texas of all places, can't be more american than that, can you? so -- growing up in new york moving around the country, i always had this tension between myself as an american which is where i went to school and grew u

and we paddled across the danube on august 9 in 1949. we were told that searchlights were playing across the water and guard towers with machine guns were there and leaving was a matter of life and death. the cold war had begun in earnest and on both sides the sense of foreboding was deep. i was six months old and i was drugged because had i cried out at night, we would die. so my life came from this place, from the torture of what i call the 31 years, the years in 1914 -- 1945 30 years in which europe went from an extraordinarily civil union and decent place to a life of extraordinary barbarism. my family was shaped with that. my father's nightmares, my mother's nightmares every night. every night they would head back. and for me, the cold war was a defining element of my life in many ways. background of this period of time. and so they came to accept being genuinely american and now living in texas of all places you can be more american than that. [laughter] and so [inaudible] growing up in new york, moving around the country i always

and most of them are from west of the hudson and east of the danube. they're outsiders.they're not native new yorkers. and ask about halfway through the book -- and this often happens with writers -- i kind of realized what i was writing. i red rah a -- read a passage from one of my favorite writers, e.b. white. and he wrote a classic called "here is new york." and he writes this: it's the person who was born elsewhere and came to new york in quest for something that accounts for new york's high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment its dedication to the arts and its incomparable achievements. and that in a great quote there -- [inaudible] i think captures the zeitgeist in my book. he wrote that every american is eaten up with a long immediate to rise. and that is -- long need to rise. and that is what this book is about. i teach american history. so often in american history, all the kids learn in the classroom is about expectation. and, for example we'll read in my class on urban history upton sinclair's "the jungle," and that's a human meat grinder where the mea

and most of them are from west of the hudson and east of the danube. they're outsiders.they're not native new yorkers. and ask about halfway through the book -- and this often happens with writers -- i kind of realized what i was writing. i red rah a -- read a passage from one of my favorite writers, e.b. white. and he wrote a classic called "here is new york." and he writes this: it's the person who was born elsewhere and came to new york in quest for something that accounts for new york's high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment its dedication to the arts and its incomparable achievements. and that in a great quote there -- [inaudible] i think captures the zeitgeist in my book. he wrote that every american is eaten up with a long immediate to rise. and that is -- long need to rise. and that is what this book is about. i teach american history. so often in american history, all the kids learn in the classroom is about expectation. and, for example we'll read in my class on urban history upton sinclair's "the jungle," and that's a human meat grinder where the mea