poverty of us west african home in the liberian capital of monrovia risking his life to cross the sahara desert on the back of a pickup truck and the hope of a better life in the west his name is joseph lamo and his drive to make a new life for his family was fraught with setbacks from 2010 here's the extraordinary story. one man's journey from liberia to the shores of america's great lakes this is joe says turning. to. think. where you came in where you. yeah i see the green truck yeah you're in for the green jacket can see you and know that truck you see the cars just because they seem to be in the superstore. now or on the right we need to. cut. the power off but he's not the one i think. oh i'm a really bad idea that the. man after 2 years of manhattan i 1st met joseph blamo while covering a story on illegal immigration. that was a chance encounter 2 years ago and little did i know that joseph journey would take him from the sahara desert all the way to new york city. this is the way out of africa the sahara desert begins just outside the town of cows in the north east of mali. thous

this is the way out of africa the sahara desert begins just outside the town of cows in the northeast of mali. thousands of sub-saharan africans come through here every year many without documents but with enough money to pay for a truck ride across the desert. the smuggling of people is a big business here and we couldn't risk filming in town that's why we're out here in the desert trying to meet up with the travellers already on their way to tell the jury. 50 kilometers out of town is where the smuggling route begins we wait until nightfall when most of the pickup trucks leave. traveling on the smugglers route we came across this broken down vehicle with about 20 guys inside all going to algeria and then on to libya and some even to europe. let me. tell you my tire my tire busted while traveling in the desert the passengers know the dangers of traveling in the desert packed into old vehicles. joseph is from liberia this is his 2nd attempt to cross the border. so people even though a better him a present. of migrant yes yes migrants what kind of. know what. about what often ina does

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is terrorism which is a particular threat for the french vital strategic interests in the central sahara region and therefore the french are also key leaning towards the libyan national army if you want to fight terrorism safe havens in southern libya the only one choice you have to cooperate if it's the libyan national army you may like to go not all right we are unfortunately out of time but thanks to jason patric to wolfgang puts thai in tripoli to sami our trash and thank you to are watching you can see the program again any tide by visiting our web site al jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter we are up a.j. inside story and i am up to 0 burnet for me burn it's me and the entire team here in doha but. i. water scarcity has become a major global issue the demand is going straight up and the supply is going straight down turning an essential natural resource into a commodity traded for profit just because. it's. what about the guy that can afford it that g

strategic interests in the central sahara region and therefore the french are also key leaning towards the libyan national army if you want to fight terrorism safe havens in southern libya the only one choice you have to cooperate leave is the libyan national army you may like it or not all right we are unfortunately out of time but thanks to jason pack to wolfgang puts thai in tripoli to sami our trash and thank you to are watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter we are apt a.j. inside story and i am up to 0 burnet for me burnet smith and the entire team here in doha but. i. a tsunami of mud to bury 16 indonesians villages submerging the homes and livelihoods of 60000 people. years later local inhabitants is still fighting for justice from the fracking company they play. and the hot sludge continues to flow. great a witness documentary. on al-jazeera. egypt strongman is ruling with an

interests in the central sahara region and therefore the french are also key leaning towards the libyan national army if you want to fight terrorism safe havens in southern libya the only one choice you have to cooperate leave is the libyan national army you may like it or not all right we are unfortunately out of time but thanks to jason pack to wolfgang puts ty in tripoli to sami our trash and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter we are at a.j. inside story and i am up to 0 burnet for me bernard smith and the entire team here in doha but. i. jeanne on out to seattle students in india's carola state will be heading back to school despite confirmed cases of covert 19 and risk warnings people in power is back with more investigative documentaries from around the wound as the world battles with the lone a virus pandemic global health leaders meet remotely to discuss e

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i'm sahara. i'm at do something.org.frustration and anxiety and just going a bit stir crazy, you're definitely not alone. young people across the country are feeling the exact same way. >> that's right. hold on to that thought for a second. we'll be right back. now let me ask you this. so what do you guys miss the most about hanging out with your friends or being at school? >> i just miss the connection with my friends. >> i really miss the freedom i had. >> so what have you guys been doing to keep yourselves entertained? >> when i leave the house, i go skateboarding because it's the only fun thing to do outside. >> let's bring in sahara one more time. what do you recommend? >> exercising, taking a walk, journalling, singing, writing poetry, painting. >> all good advice. so there is a lot of things to do. and do something.org has a whole list of things you can do because it's going to be a really long summer. in san francisco, lyanne melendez, abc7 news. i need to go to work. bye, guys. >> bye, mom. >> they are lucky to

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sounds of the sahara. this car's papers show it was originally delivered to the moroccan royal family. services and from the company it is it's great that it's completed it is complete with minor flaws you can't drive it in northern europe it was made from north africa and didn't have a heater. kind of. its engine puts out $68.00 horsepower at the time that was king sized performance. if they go miles from i think a moroccan king would probably also use a rolls royce for state occasion for every day driving this could have been a royal limousine at the time. but i don't know for sure the moroccan king wasn't as wealthy as other arab rulers before but i could imagine he was satisfied with an opel copy 10 and actually drove it i think it's possible but we don't know for sure . in the brother's repair shop mechanic lars make link manages to transform even rusty back into running capital gains is when there's another gas cap that's the gas cap we've just been talking about the examples for us of but they were

case paintings for example cave engravings in the southern sahara with laurie scenes in the union conflict armed conflict battle among men. in. i would say i would say that it's in the nature of fast collectively we haven't gotten rid. of collective violence individual violence yes it's always crime and so is it is something which unfortunately is happening but the commission is magic big. as it exists in the human nature collectively. nobody has the full answer yet. of course we have to be very cautious in particular is we have instruments instruments that. extremely dangerous atomic weapons biological weapons. and because of that the 1st world war was so catastrophic because because all of a sudden the war became industrialized into armies met in the battlefield in the 1st days of the war with a kind of civil unrest. and it shoot bold and brave and real face each other face to face like medieval medieval warriors they the storage in the shield and all of a sudden they were machine guns and they were. message altshuler he ended our free hand and in the shock the shock was extremely deep i

desert course is just a breeze this time the years hot in the sahara were up in the low forty's which is where we should be in chad and the jack there are showers of course running into this part of africa tropical africa and nigeria they are back and the certainly along the coast further west abby jan's got showers or thunderstorms every day. in countries like mine people have been killed too because we united states have privatized the old public function was this was a deal with saudi arabia things were done differently saudis other arabs when they came to britain to be told to help to the past bombs do you know you will rumsfeld this meeting saddam isn't that interesting. shadow on al-jazeera award winning programming from international till may cause as the bodies of its yeah we are going to wife insert life if we carry on this work out just the arrest sets the stage that is not longer exist your naivety is no longer an excuse giving voice to the voiceless so are we ready to go for a long pull ex-pats and discussion that culture still exists and you are still combating that today

every is currently home to a 3rd of the world's population will be as hot as the hottest parts of the sahara desert within 50 years all 3rd of the world's population will either need to flee or turn into some sort of camel human hybrid storing water in their own gorged sheets and using the term. to refer to their actual toads call me crazy but making a 3rd of the world uninhabitable so that we can keep burning fossil fuels he's crazy so call me crazy but i'm calling you crazy as that feel or you'll junky. the i.p.c.c. estimates we have less than 10 years until the point of no return and i don't know if you know this but the point of no return. it's not pleasant i hear it gets very few return customers people like no thank you no the lines for the rides way too long and the bathroom smelled of death. we had to go to a quick break but if you don't have time to watch your back to the night every week i mean come on you should but if you don't you can listen to the free podcast called moment of clarity it's free every week on i tunes stitcher and spotify and it has all of redacted tonight also y

the g 5 so help countries which of the $55.00 francophone african countries across the across the sahara also france france will still have influence all right it won't be fully on the board but it will still have influence and so it really comes back to what i said at the beginning that you know the the frank zone as it is is a political entity that political entity doesn't fundamentally change by renaming the c.f.a. frankly. i thought it was starting to run down the clock folks but i just want to get a couple of final questions in can a quick word from you again. about opportunity. tell me about the opportunity as you see it because a lot of what we focused on is all there the hurdles that could be there but what if this is done right what opportunities positive opportunities come out of it for the region there's no doubt that if we can get it right it will look not you who we solve the general economy with without question but the thing is that there are substantial considerations that have to be given to woo but $980.00 is the biggest economy in africa there's no doubt that our and t

complaints it was being distributed on family or and that's why not for today thanks for your company sahara raman is with you in half an hour's time next though the listening posts with richard get. what impact will call that 19 and the drop in oil prices have on the rings to the white house can go on will trump survive these historic set backs and does the job only have what it takes to beat. special coverage on just a. little . lower much of just been you're watching the listening post working from home this week we're breaking from our usual format for months now we've been doing nonstop coverage of the media side of the coronavirus pandemic from the misinformation being spread by government citizens and journalists alike to the war of narratives being waged by great powers but covert 19 has also brought out some of the best in the 4th estate people who are producing vital coverage some of which is designed and delivered in new ways to help us understand a breaking story that's rooted in medical science and laden with complexities we have for examples from 4 different parts of the world

the west sahara. violence meted out against the people.ecause we have to deal with the current crisis. yes, i think the us presidential election would have made headlines around this stage. 0bviously, donald trump and joe biden barking at each other, it has receded at each other. the primaries and caucuses are not being talking about and one of the fallouts of covid—19 is, of course, many western companies, even japanese companies are pulling out of china. i think that is a story that could develop after the crisis has subsided to a certain extent. in india, i think, the economic wars and perhaps unemployment would have been the stories of this current time. irrespective, notwithstanding, covid—19. even before this pandemic struck there was a yearning for good news and there were some good news this week that sudan has criminalised female genital mutilation, fgm, three years in prison and that is a practice that still is, particularly across africa and middle east, sets and a positive signal. in the movement there to end military rule were

static sandstorm is actually the result of a weather phenomenon called colima that originates from the saharadesert no major disruptions were reported and we had over now to regina sitting in our sports h.q. regina most hockey fans can name 5 of the best players in the game and now one get actually gets the chance to shine brighter in the spotlight and i'm sure between the 2 of us you and i could probably name about 30 but some of those names bobby or alexander ovechkin gordie howe and bobby hall all those names are key to the deep history in hockey but there is one man more synonymous is the sport and he has a chance to tell his story the greatest hockey player to ever play the game away gretzky is said to be the feature of a new documentary called the great one. as we know him he is one of 3 athletes to be highly documentary called in search of greatness former had written earlier is joined in the piece by soccer great paley and football legend jerry rice the piece asked the question what makes some of the greatest athletes better than their peers in gretzky's case that's true both on and o