Rapidly changing the world we live in get breaks it was a slogan that one of the Prime MinisterBoris Johnson counting the cost on aljazeera. 2016 was the deadliest year on record for migrants and refugees attempting to get into europe. Over 5000 people died between libya and italy or turkey and greece. The following film was 1st broadcast in 2007 well before todays conflicts in the middle east. Then many european migrants were using another less publicized route to a better life. This is the southernmost outpost of for chris europe. To. Get its on mainland africa opposite the straits of gibraltar. Mediterranean enclaves say is one of the last vestiges of spanish rule in northern morocco. Its been european for more than 500 years and madrid insists it will never relinquish control of. The. Recent visit by the spanish monarch highlighted the ongoing tension over the status and future. Spain has also cordoned it off from playing comparison with another war in another place so your me. But i see that. The list of. The crossing between morocco and spain has become a magnet for tens of thousands of workers and migrants legal and illegal. But this is the back door into the Prosperous European Union and the hope of a better economic future. But within the town of so it is another divide a social division that is religious and economic that when the wealthy christian spaniards and their poor a muslim compadre its off moroccan descend. The town of soda is a geographical anomaly parts of mainland africa belonging to europe. Even its geographical position its no wonder that one of the foremost map makers of the ancient world was born here in 1099. 00. Out. Of all the great voyages of discovery which led to colonize ation and as in the case of soto the presence of europe in africa. Once again economic opportunism is the prime mover but now the migration. Is in the opposite direction as those who were formerly colonized head north riven by war wound and oppression. Ending up here at the gate of europe. Africa. Can feel the local color pick a 2nd finger at the little problematic. What the migrants find is a double fence. Most of it paid for by the european union. 4 meters high 6 kilometers long. Cable dont elaborate on this said. In this article the only. Effective are they are they not of their own model i mean if you really go. To church what the migrants also find is a Holding Center or their status as refugees is decided that typically takes months its not a frozen but there are straight. Through to museum to do nice to. Support our longest walk. To commute city of to defeat him or lose more yet because you see. Him off the path to. Suit our city to city as we see is if. You. Google enough to look good or merely. Remove the model. For those who arrive often come from far further afield from other continents even though. I came here from India Kashmir because of economical. And. You know. There are people who are allowed into from africa and it takes them only a few minutes. Every day thousands of moroccans trudged past the deserted guard posts that separate the spanish enclave from morocco. The bundles of soap clothes and oil they carry home for resale in morocco and not entirely legal traffic. But the spanish authorities turn a blind eye knowing how profitable this trade is to the city. This cross border trade is it all with an old relationship built on mistrust and suspicion between spain and morocco over say. It goes back to the collapse of muslim rule in spain at the end of the 15th century which for some gives the issue a religious dimension. And. Heres a. Little more thought. You know a little. North. In the meantime. Be removed you know one of them when you know. That they want to come in. On the surface say it sure appears to be a harmonious cosmopolis of the city. But through the middle of it runs a mob over. The invisible. But divides it 70000 inhabitants among religious lines. And then lets see. A shot for them again its a. Beautiful souls. And. This is the impoverished hillside neighborhood of principally alfonzo. Disaffected inhabitants cite examples of official neglect contributing to their poverty and despair. This is well hard to say which is muslims live. And those muslims who feel marginalized make no secret of where their allegiances lie. We want to know what. They pray for the health and prosperity of the king the king of morocco. Oh all over. The nation with even yes i mean adults. Who work. Full time and need amman who are still. Born in a home. I met. With a think ill see the 3rd of us where all 6 of us will be no matter the buffet in a city in europe or not a home. Part of a home ill. Feel heavier medina at any corner thats a thought. And a thought tougher than a c. Here here lets talk for ill tell you have the many hats that i will see mean i let you know you know. There was even home and. Its a scene of 1st communion or often played out in mainland spain the priest officiating doesnt see any divisions between same as christians and muslims. No no you have to come friday youre going to get a lot of life you need so many people sitting in the door sort of you know manage it all all that here and they have been a lot of it i think into only that it some we got of the olive. Oil and i could you get a more of that in august you know this i will add nothing that i have no into the moment about maceda you know what i feel what happened to the last you know all that is what i mean you know my mind on the bad you know the fat intake of a low income which im out of money that you know i you want to buy you a low noise but i still favor vessel faith but it will be some of the money that i that i think that would be better than. The city of souter is spains footprint on the very northern tip of africa. And 5 african migrants the shortest way into europe. To stop them europe was build a double barbed wire fence its a modern version of the great wall of china and more recently the birdland wall while those walls relied on heights and guards to keep outsiders of a spanish fans bristles with electronic surveillance gear but the purpose is the same. Offense it replaced much lower was too easily breached with the result of the truly desperate souter became a stepping stone into continental europe. Wonder were. Doing. Right here i wonder. If i being. So right. In the. World is. Those who still charms their luck wait in the surrounding forests but if court they are transported back to their countries of origin by the moroccan or qualities. Now though there are a growing demand for a more constructive approach to bring about a lasting solution to the problem of illegal immigration. And i sort of thought that meant that he meant until i say. It because i dont think i think i said. I see him going i go ahead what i mean. Is this are you this appropriate bicycle nothing i gave you that book on the. So we have sold by sea. But i will die. At the Little People with a well lets see can that be if if. They stung me in there because music but i want to let the other time in. The home but im using. Them. To see those programs in action when asked across to mainland space on the other side of the mediterranean. This is the bay of card is. That on the 25th of october 2003 local man was shocked by the sight of 35 male corpses washed ashore close to his home 12 of them were from the same rock and believe. To see. The corpse of young people. Here in the seaside. For 4 hours it was a very. Heavy experience. When we found that people we take our cars with our own money and we went to morrow we were to find their people from him but he made out because benny morale is up plays with our heights right off of a ration and we decided to go there im displaying there reeks more for illegal immigration i vowed to tame the data course is death. Recollecting i mean for them rafael kiddos who is a schoolteacher decided to take action he founded a charity called solly that is that director to ensure that the little moroccan village of. Does not lose any more of its husbands in some hes constantly encouraging others to join him. Hes only have your town we all are volunteers were spending our own money we put our cars our own work we dont have theft of. Money public money because weve seen that people have to shamed inside when people change inside it is able to change the world. And the change that rafael and his charity is aiming to bring about is in the minds of hansal of residents who still view migration as their only salvation paying little attention to the well known perils. Even know when. To cross a. Router was very dangerous and that many of their friends and parents were dead because of that sound of their young people from one salah who wanted to cross browser here and. What makes the approach of this charity so innovative is not its idealism but its pragmatism in linking the economic interests of Spanish Citizens with the well being of those in a remote iraq and village. That cost taxpayers in spain 2000 euros every time that a drowned man is sent back in a coffin so far better this. That in developing the migrants place of origin and adoption of sorts that others can emulate we wanted to make for on their home soil or a good place to leave because it these are good places to live. We have started building a small clinic or classroom for the children. We have started giving them. Grass roots in order to avoid to adopt a little children work in the in the country because we understood that this bird turned up a little she and remain in the school where again because if they are working in the country here there is a possibility that if they try to any rate because they dont get enough money to leave but if they are sturdy they have a possibility of developing. This imaginative Grassroots Initiative is it all with the fencing and policing approach favored by the european governments of fortress europe. Souters barbed wire barrier may for a time at least stop the flow. But it does nothing to remove the injury underlying causes. For different eras in our area something artificial. And at the end it is not go into a stop there people it is not going to stop or even ration it is can control illegal immigration but it is not going to a stop or eat. In order to stop illegal immigration we have to shane our mentality prior to the mentality have to shane too in africa. It because if they enough freak out they have to understand they have to work protecting their own interest in developing their own economies. Is a radical shift in our thinking realize ation the wars. Sooner or later the difference in so far is going down later because france fancies to stop people. From many years i go up to no people they may break. Easy going to hop in their time in the future so france is. Not the. East to all prime i was hot because their main trains its places inside our hog. The film youve just seen was 1st broadcast almost 10 years ago when the number of Migrant Deaths from spanish territory had reached its peak. The worlds media only started to take notice when the drowned audience of african migrants began washing ashore on the tourist beaches of the spanish canary islands. Spains response was to stiffen its Border Security but despite all the effort and expense spent on beefing up its buddhist migration is on the rise. Migrants hoping to be among the lucky few to reach the other side have often rushed the border fence shown in the c. C. T. V. Footage released by. Spanish government sometimes the consequence is a tragic. On one occasion and say you to and 2014 at least 14 african migrants drowned when trying to swim their way from morocco to spain. These pictures show spanish buddha gods firing rubber bullets and smoke canisters to would survive this as they swim across the border. Those who made it a life were to put it back to morocco on the other side of the. A spokesperson from the Spanish Ministry of interior said that shots fired one aimed at the swimmers and claim their response was proportional. Today this is no longer an issue isolated in a faraway spanish and played. The number of people hoping to reach europe has swelled by huge wave of refugees from was in syria iraq and afghanistan. Thousands of people attesting europes buddhas by the sea from libya to italy and from taki to greece and then continuing overland to europes more affluent countries. These scenes of from hungary as refugees attempt to travel west we are humans where the humanity where the world to see us look everyone here they are fatherless we dont need anything just a troll its. Not. Just good luck on evil this is not a. Good joke. In response europe is building moves today there are 5 existing fences across the continent with at least one of the 6 either in construction scheduled. Most of these rules separate e. U. Nations from countries outside the union but some fences a planned between Member States a move thats against the spirit of the e. U. According to the e. U. s Foreign Policy chief europe was built on the idea that walls have to fall down europe was built on the idea of coming together. There are more refugees and migrants traveling around the ward within africa within asia than those that are coming to europe this to say we have as europeans to put things in perspective and to realize that it is not only a european phenomenon it is a global move. Starting from wars conflicts poverty natural disasters Climate Change it is the world that is going in that direction people move out of desperation out of hope and we have to learn how to manage this. Without a political solution in sight migrants and refugees remain undeterred taking on increasingly dangerous routes into europe. When we where in the border in the sea i was standing on one leg and raising my son on the other while still in order to get him up from the water because the water was still here. Trouble began at the end of the countrys civil war when most people started returning home from refugee camps. And killed during a demonstration in 2017 is buried right here in the middle of the street as a sign of resistance to the Mining Companies and government are set in your. Nations mules and displacement between the community the Mining Companies and the government has now escalated to west africa. The community has taken its case before west Africa Regional because they say the people have little for use in the justice system. Overthrown and exiled. If you will. An intimate film about the struggle of the elected leader of madagascar to return to his country and reinstate his presidency you know the truth. And. Nothing to. Change the return of the president on aljazeera. The hillbilly a harmless caricature or a malicious label denying a people their culture to justify the exploitation of their Natural Resources that divide and conquer thing as was so successful that even people in the region believe the real type then becomes dangerous its only a region of trash so. Why not trash it whats in a name hillbilly but witness documentary on aljazeera. Understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world is another matter where you will be the news and Current Affairs that matter to you. The all. Welcome to the aljazeera news hour it is currently 10 g. M. T. And midday in the country hardest hit by the crown a virus pandemic thats actually more than 11 and a half 1000 people have died there and over 100000 are infected the nation has just started observing a minute silence to remember the victims lets join the ceremony in the capital