the border police say more than 90% of illegal immigrants from africa are from eritrea. >> translator peace, but i want to work. i'm 19 years old. i come from a country where there are problems. i had to leave eritrea, because there is no food, money, nothing there. >> reporter: many didn't want to talk ob reveal their identities. >> translator: the population is being repressed. >> reporter: they are not crossing the border between italy and france in record numbers, but most are trying to reach the united kingdom. it is now being called the north korea of africa. 10,000 political prisoners are being held there in appalling conditions. >> reporter: this man was a professional photographer in eritrea. he has been officially recognized as an refugee. he told us his elder brother was drowned attempting to reach the shores of europe. >> translator: i would rather be in my own country, with my family and my own work, but i'm happy i made it to france. i'm alive. that's good already. >> reporter: his first love is the camera. he has been documenting the polite of his fellow countrymen and

what that means is around 2,000 people, major those who come from sudan and eritrea will effectively have to be released within 90 days. but because of the issue of african asigh l lu -- asylum se, very quickly try to find a way to try to ensure that these people who are going to be released there this detention center don't find their way back into wider society and they will try to find some other legal mechanism to prevent that from happening. whatever the case at this stage we don't know just how the government is going to respond but again as we've been saying this is a major victory for african asylum seerks i seekersn israel. >>> wall street protesters are blaming on climate change in an attempt to block wall street. shia bratanzi is there for more. >> the police thought they were going to go that way, by the stock exchange, but this is one of the symbols of the march and it's going over, i don't know if you can see, but very few people have started a sit in here, it is an act of civil disobedience. just in front of the iconic bull of wall street which has been fenced off you

many are from central african republic, south sudan and eritrea. many head to spain and portugal.ya is the starting point for mieg rantmigrants to italy and . cross through turkey and southern bulgaria. the italian interior ministry session more than double the number of 2013. last year around 466 migrants headed for -- 466,000 migrants leave for germany. >>> judith sunderland joins me via skype. what is your assessment of what's going on at this moment? >> clearly there has been a significant increase particularly in boat migration to europe but also, migration over land. you mentioned spain, while it's true that there has been sort of reverse immigration from spain in the context of the economic crisis, in the past year and through 2014, we've seen an increase in attempts to get into the spanish enclaves of seota and malia, and also troubling behavior by the spanish security forces on those borders, in terms of push back and even use of force against individuals trying the get into the spanish territories. we also see a lot of increased land crossings into bulgaria, particularly

eritrea has almost 90% female genital mutilation. it's a christian country.has 75% female genital mutilation. it's a christian country. nowhere else in the muslim, muslim majority states is female genital mutilation an issue. but again, this is the problem. is that you make these fassel arguments that women are mistreated in the muslim world. that's certainly true in iran and saudi arabia. do you know that muslims have elected seven women as their heads of state in those muslim majority countries? how many women -- >> but reza, be honest, though. for the most part it is not a free and open society for women in those states. >> well, it's not in iran. it's not in saudi arabia. it certainly is in indonesia and malaysia. it certainly is in bangladesh. it certainly is in turkey. i mean, again, this is the problem is that you're talking about a religion of 1.5 billion people and certainly it becomes very easy to just simply paint them all with a single brush by saying, well, in saudi arabia they can't drive and so therefore that is somehow representative of islam.