This is neonate the capital of. The cities across roads for people desperate to make their way to europe no matter how dangerous the journey many come to the bus station at night to meet with the traffickers they gather here. We receive also showing g. O. D. s will they know there are networks of smugglers and people traffickers upon station who will help them continue that journey bullshitters it up to what. They are under growing pressure because of the forced repacked relations of slavery issue a lot of food. So its become more dangerous so yes its riskier and more expensive now is sold for sure. We cant openly film here the police initially have launched a crackdown on migrants and traffic has and tensions are on the rise we meet a frightening young nigerian woman who also hopes to bring. Cheer up. Your brother the police put up the money but. How much you have to pay for that but is there a way to get that without a little dot com so that that. She seems quite worried that theyre all afraid. Or moneys been stolen here everything it was the police they also took my cell phone if wallet like that its even more dangerous north of me i may. This young man already tried once to make his way to europe and almost died along the way there with the israel. They kill you for no reason look at this video general youre going to do a lot. Of it he shows us a video he took a month ago when shafiq is abandoned him in the middle of the desert. There it is a bomb shell suddenly they say get lost thats the path youre on your own. They gave the 2 of us one liter of water one bottle is. The place they hope to reach europe is more than 3300 kilometers away to reach sicily and have to cross the desert and the mediterranean ever since your began trying to stem the flow of migrants this has become the most dangerous and deadly is rooted. In. Need share is one of the worlds least developed countries population growth is soaring and poverty is rife despite the countrys abundant Natural Resources many young migrants an Asylum Seekers hoping to reach italy pass through need for that adding to the strain to intercept a regular migrants before they reach libya in 2016 the European Union convinced the share to monitor its borders more rigorously in. Change the e. U. Provides funding and expertise if. You do you cant certainly share one of the poorest countries in the world to stem the flow of refugees we need to hear a piano ambassador in the army. To cross the paths with you know in the European Unions main concerns are to reduce the number of deaths in void humanitarian tragedies and dispel the myth of europe. The regular flow of migrants sars definitely been reduced im a bit in asia has mobilized its Security Forces in the north arrested traffickers and confiscated vehicles through the increased checks on the border with libya are bearing fruit imported if we. About 750 kilometers northeast of me are made is the 2nd major hub for african migrants initially the city has played a key role in east refugee to deter migration. Positively go people who set out from here on the long journey through the desert put themselves in great danger in the hate filled it has lost. The city in the how to decide Health Region has long been considered west africas gateway to the sahara. Its also home to catch the civilian Capacity Building mission in a share with pressure from the e. U. Some hes a goni share passed a law against Human Trafficking but the crackdown has not brought business to an end. Where these are water canisters for sale every micro dies when they try to. Put the whole tree that the way as to live well so it takes 3 days and these are stakes they used to hold onto the floor of the truck and keep that balance still is a very liberal court that works it has to. It was there and these protect against the dust and it was one of. The covering of it this must have been a busy place where you didnt like that not anymore the harder you have. The shia am i used to work as a people smuggler illegally until 2016 he helped hundreds of migrants pass along this route into d. P. s every week. This is where the desert begins. Agadez is smugglers have now been displaced by new unscrupulous traffickers from abroad they easily slip past the checkpoints that have been set up in the city. The 1st now interviewer asks how many ways there are to get people out about it is countless ways were told because of the risk the smuggler has given up his business but he knows whats going on. With the ladies at the traffickers in the desert are criminals real criminals thats even true here in our day that is open so they go to the Transportation Companies and intercept the arriving migrants dickie via they saying i want to go to libya come with me i have excellent contacts in a while and book which. Way signal and then they just drop them off in the middle of the desert 3 or 4 up and only the migrants are being tricked by a broker they shouldnt have trusted partner connection when going to look when its for. The shop because who are still in business hide their clients from the police in shelters on the outskirts of the city of a contact helps is gain access. To them. This is this area is called the ghetto migrants hide here waiting to leave libya after what i did. We find dirt she runs without electricity or Running Water each one accommodating dozens of migrants the previous night 60 made their way towards libya this 12 year old boy from sierra leone was left behind he didnt have enough money. To call it. For the last finnish. Court. If. You could but its a. Struggle for eat. Because. For tomorrow. Im from the ivory coast im 17 i lost both my parents there during the 2010 crisis and i had no one to help me so i left. Once we were supposed to buy a notebook for school and the teacher said something that really struck me you know what a long break in my book school isnt for poor people when youre perfectly up off. If i knew he was right school isnt made for us but i couldnt afford School Supplies i said that with money i could have continued my studies i told myself what good does a diploma do me if i cant find work i should leave i would rather suffer somewhere else here than in my home countries would im a poppy would you want to go to germany do you think youll be treated well there. Is a good lawyer of my respects human rights itll be fine but many of us have skills but cant do anything at home where getting bit by because we have no money by the way. Prosecute a car are a lot of hidden talents here. So what are yours. So if i dont cook usually football and make music with the musicality. I wonder if we see a lot on the way here we face difficult situations that we were wrong. Like a rival to checkpoint. And i demand money from you be you but i will free if you dont pay they search you go and take everything they find out whether its from a family ive been here for 7 months or so for 7 months this has been my life now and sends me mileage and im stuck but i trust in god how do you get food when my friends buy food they give me some they dont have to see your harsh because they dont have anything i dont eat if youre trapped here why dont you go higher. But i prefer it here better than living free at home you love it that i my heart can find peace there its good you know what is waiting for you in libya and its see through and there there are 3 good hard times and elisabeth nothing ventured nothing gained basically an idea well but you might be detained or tortured or drown in a way that fitted low salary thats life that human life is dangerous you have to take risks that if thats gods will i accept or not is no see you last year. The methods employed by the illegal traffic is a growing ever more brutal but it turns out to be fairly easy to make contact with a trafficker who operates here hes waiting for us in another part of the city poverty and wealth rub shoulders in that it is. Behind these walls a trafficker is waiting to meet with us despite the ban he continues to bring migrants across the border is that except. You are not duties. We have our contacts on a well known smuggler so you know i have my network was when the police head west we go east south or north. Or not with g. P. S. You can vary your routes there are thousands of ways now thousands may do thousands this is because of the 2015 law people die in the desert my colleagues abandon them in the desert if they run into the police or a military patrol i think it is a. Pity me that they unload them and disappear. Its terrible so why not secure if they catch you go to prison. For 2015 laws to blame for all of those deaths because. I think that how many people do you do with when you go out that about 80 to 150 a week pretty prices have gone up we used to ask for 180 euros but now it costs up to 450 euro while some business is good oh yes it is i make over 3000 euros sometimes 4500 a week just got through and do i mean not bad so yeah just thats true if my familys doing well. In the past when migration happened in the normal way everyone here was content to go to slaughter them and a thought. But now you can forget all that and see that this. To help traffickers leave the business clear enough is the Financial Assistance equivalent to about 2300 euros. Thats less than this spent in a week. Shimon rights activist rashid colo is concerned about the impact that the e. U. Policy is a having on his city and on the safety of migrants. And yet. The government wants us to believe it has stopped migration did not install the bus but thats not the reality instead what has emerged is a new and even more criminal structure that country has said and what about the aid were constantly promised where is it where you promised 2300 euros to people who give up Human Trafficking for good. And youre saying that when whenever people used to earning 1800 a month. Or you propose him its just a one off payment what. Is the danger today. Is that illegal traffickers secretly take people with them. And send them straight to their deaths door a lot more it happens nearly every week really every week. But its shocks young people from Subsaharan Africa who are simply left to their fate thats in the middle of the desert. Faced saw. The journey has become more dangerous and more expensive too without money many migrants become stranded in other it is and many resort to sex work. Arrive here panelists they have nothing at all. So they have to make money somehow. Its measure of their. These women offer their services to less than 10 euros hoping to eventually scrape together enough money to pay traffickers. These young migrants have bought water canisters and food in preparation for their journey. In the ghetto where the traffic a has given them accommodation while they wait they cook what will be their only meal of the day they have. Got to. Well there was what is that it. Was you were. Going to a lot of the girls over there were it was in the courtyard a few young women gather around another woman a few years older than a are we soon realize what is happening the nigerian mafia has come to neighboring nation to recruit sex workers. Altogether it. Was gurd says. The young women dont realize that the older woman is a patron crucial she doesnt want to show her face and tells us her sister is waiting for the group in libya. What kind of job she took she told you you were going to do. Like myself she is walking out as you want. To you know to stop that is the danger for girl that iraqi and sometimes the worst if you press to treat yourself well we know you are. But you know with a small gesture there are crucial ends the conversation. With. The transit camp run by the International Organization for migration or i. O. M. Helps tend to migrants who have been sent back from libya many a traumatised mentally and physically but despite the dangers of the journey many of the people here have attempted it several times. In and it is the i. O. M. Office than food and shelter if theyre prepared to return home for cute. I know. This whiteboard lists of the nationalities of everyone in the camp so take any for example 182 migrants or from there on the assad government. Right now there are 399 people here in all but you know a man the number got out it was a couple it is enough just to see how many have you helped in 2017 and we. 5000 people piers i do get to say 5000 men women and children who have survived a terrible journey the camps doctors try to help as best they can you see. They arrive here war now and with all kinds of illnesses sometimes theyre totally hydrated but when theyre crossing the desert just they drink just a few swallows of water to ease their thirst thats not nearly enough while you they need 3 to 5 liters a day please do. You mean if they dont get that they might die within as little as 48 hours without water youll survive 3 days at most fortunate view but it looks he looks. What happened here let me tell you through. The time we can. See. You guys are supposed to and should be good to get to this because i get is. When i go to theres the to get to associate with them as just one for their courage to do what people could do you see many injuries teaches peace. More effectively i do you know can you. Yes we get a lot of people with gunshot wounds to the olympics the wounds get infected and we often have to amputate the lens. There because you start to go see the following these gunshot wounds come from bandits demand that migrants hand over everything they possess you have to do she deform them so you dont see these as you see this if the migrants refuse you refuse to meet you they get shot at the force you see the buddy she put out but i actually dont know sometimes i migrants suffer gunshot wounds when the army shoots at the vehicles that theyre in it but much else comes with. The local traffic is still live victims to libyan ones. These men from cameroon oh theyre risky to a place between who are english is. So kind of you know i want to go home this is receiving terrible things migrants are beaten raped castrated because this happens to a lot of people. Why do you need. Yes people dying like flies. And. So often human its hell on earth a woman arrived with her 15 year old daughter. They took away her daughter and sold her and the mother wants to intervene and im going to show him so they lock turn a dark hole after that i never saw her again as you know if i gave water to a man i couldnt understand he spoke english the next morning they killed him as if he were a cockroach that was the worst affected sight seeing. Siller visit that iran of the desert at the mediterranean the abuse. I tell my brothers dont try this absolutely not i gave you i didnt want to believe it is in right and when i saw it for myself i almost went crazy. Thats why i tell any migrant thinking of doing this dont take this route. As. The trip to sub out in the middle of the Libyan Desert takes at least 3 days and then it takes weeks if not months to reach the capital tripoli this stage of the journey through libya is even more perilous. In. Tripoli is one of the most dangerous cities in the world the area around the city is under control of the u. N. Backed government there are countless militias the country is awash in weapons. Thousands of migrants in the city live crowded together under richard conditions there are about 50 official Detention Centers under the nominal control of authorities in addition theres a substantial number of apartments and factory buildings where criminals hold migrants under lock and key and demand ransom for them. This man is desperate if his girlfriend has been detained by traffic is in tripoli for 2 months hes finally been able to talk on the phone to her he tells me the traffickers want to sell her who get rid of. The day i ask him how much ransom the demand he says that recently they demanded 450 euros and his girlfriend told him the same amount. She called him again just a day ago and told him that she and the other women are not being fit. He says he is desperate to get her out of there somehow. To squeeze as much money out as possible from the families the kidnappers tell the prisoners to call them. The man recorded his girlfriends phone call. A little. But it was a citizen of a place im at is unbearable if you are heading towards is really at the libyan coast guard quarter. Since then i have been in this prison to even get raped tear and night arabs coming to take women with them to be sold to brothels in this i dont want that to happen to me. Because some other is. Only a few International Organizations still maintain an office in tripoli one is the Un Refugee Agency or u. N. H. C. R. Which is holding a press conference here the un agency are tries to obtain the release of his many migrants is possible but it has to focus its efforts on people who would be entitled to apply for asylum more pairs were allowed to visit the official centers for weve carried out about a 1000 visitors this year and theyve always managed to get out refugees almost one pounds 900 this year some have some civil place listen to this. Yeah like somebody is at the us. So the guy they tie the women up to is it that they want to sleep with a woman and they tie up her arms and legs and hang her from the right for the not quoted out of the show. So cerebral that is horrible and painful to hear because what can be done to help her. So it sounds like one of the unofficial Detention Centers in the official ones conditions complete bad but not as terrible as hers if shes in the hands of traffickers now International Aid organization can gain access to her. So thats heartbreaking yes its a terrible situation and. Its impossible to locate the woman in tripoli but we are able to contact her by phone. Like i have the number of the cell phone the traffic is gave her so that she can beg her family for the money that i need is a good idea always looks call her in italy. For sure hello. Hello. On the 2nd attempt we managed to talk to her her family has already paid money but the kidnappers want even more. Yes its money and the problem is when you fall into the hands they do everything they can to make money off you know people they cant get a ransom for they sell for 750 year and thats what happened to several women hand that scares me. Right now theyre demanding to prevent of around 400. 00 euros for my remarks. I cant get my hands on that much money ive already begged my family if i dont pay theyll sell me for women with babies and pregnant women they charge 1700. 00 for the other women 1200 euros. Is not safe many of the 600 us please i want