This is neon me the capital of me share 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. E. V. C. Also showing they always will i know there are a network of smugglers and people traffickers at the pa station who will help them continue that journey bullshitters it up to where. Theyre under growing pressure because of the 4 st patricks ations slate is full of football. So its become more dangerous song yeah so its riskier and more expensive now is all to share. We cant openly film here the police in mission have launched a crackdown or migrants and traffic has and tensions are on the rise we need to frighten young nigerian woman who also hopes to. Got a problem with the putting it up it might help but. How much you have to pay to the body so that it would you give that without a little. Hope that 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 but its even more dangerous north of. This young man already tried once to make his way to europe and was died along the way they would. They kill you for no reason look at this video general you know. He shows us a video he took a month ago when shafiq is apparent in tim in the middle of the desert. There it is a bombshell 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 theyll have to cross the desert and the mediterranean ever since your began trying to stem the flow of migrants this is become the most dangerous and deadly its reached. New 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 in silence it is 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. Do you counsel new share one of the poorest countries in the world to stem the flow of refugees we recently hear pain ambassador in the im a young man. Constipated with you do not appear in the European Unions main concerns are to reduce the number of deaths in void humanitarian tragedies and dispel the myth of europe. The game of regular flow of migrants sounds definitely been reduced im a bit in asia has mobilized its Security Forces in the north arrested traffickers and confiscated vehicles being increased check some on the border with libya are bearing fruit and pocket 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 the e. U. Strategy to deter migration. Positive because people who set out from here on the long journey through the desert put themselves in great danger in a hate filled its not. The city in the heart to decide Health Region has long been considered west africas gateway to the sahara. Its also home to you kept the e. U. Civilian Capacity Building mission in a share with pressure from the e. U. Some his ago only share passed a law against Human Trafficking but the crackdown has not brought business to an end. Where these are water canisters for sale books every micro dies when they try to. Get a hold true to the way as to live well so it takes 3 days and these are sticks theyre used to hold onto the floor of the truck and keep that balance still is a piece of it a little that that works it has to. It was there and these protect against the dust yeah it was one of. The cowboys have of this must have been a busy place where you dont like. Not anymore the harder you have that. Machine i am i. That this is where the desert begins. Agadez the 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. For us now interview asks how many ways there are to get people out about it is countless ways were told. Because of the race the smuggler has given up his business but he knows whats going on. Is that the traffickers in the desert are criminals real criminals thats even true here and i got there it is open so they go to the Transportation Companies and intercept the arriving migrants they key via they saying i want to go to libya come with me i have excellent contacts in a while and work which way. 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 brother they shouldnt have trusted but the connection men want to know when its but. The traffickers who are still in business hide their clients from the police and shelters on the outskirts of the city have a contact helps us gain access. To them and. This is this area is called the ghetto migrants hide here waiting to leave libya but after what i did. We find dirty rooms 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. Pay. For the last fish. Caught up in life. Cannot make it. Struggle for eat. Out because. For tomorrow. Im from the ivory coast im 17 i lost both my parents bad during the 2010 crisis and i had no want 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 that yellow brick in my book school isnt for poor people 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 who put them up probably would you want to go to germany do you think youll be treated well there. Just get laid off they respect human rights itll be fine. Many of us have skills but cant do anything at home where killed it but because we have no money by the way or a broad secret that there are a lot of hidden talents here. So lets hope that what are yours. So if i dont cook play football and make music with the music i listen and i dont even see what i want on the way here we face difficult situations. We were wrong. Like we were arriving at a checkpoint be that so and i demand money from him be about i will free if you dont pay they search you go and take everything they find out whether. Im a family ive been here for 7 months or so for 7 months this has been my life no one sends me mileage and im stuck but i trust in god how do you get food because one of my friends buy food they give me some they dont have much because they dont have anything i dont eat or give it youre trapped here what if you go. But i prefer it here better than living free at home get love i that i my heart can find peace there its good you know what is waiting for you in libya and its see it through and there. That hard times. I know that nothing ventured nothing can be scary an idea. That you might be detained or tortured will drown the noise. So i love you thats life my thing is dangerous you have to take risks that if thats gods will i accept not just o. C. Your 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 content 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 this despite the band he continues to bring migrants across the border. Not one not one we have our contacts im a well known smuggler i have my network. 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 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. So if you live. They unload them and disappear. Its terrible. But why if they catch you go to prison. For 2015 law is to blame for all of those deaths. But i think that how many people do you do with. That kind of oh about 80 to 150 a week look pretty prices have gone up we used to ask for 180 euros but now it costs up to 150 euro summit. Business is good yes it is i know i make over 3000 euros sometimes 4500 a week just got through. Not bad so just thats true my familys doing well. In the past when migration happened in the normal way everyone here was content people bought goats slaughter them and ate. But now you can forget all that. This. Traffic is leave the business the European Union office the Financial Assistance equivalent to about 2300 euros. Thats less than the spend millions in a week. But the human rights activist rashid cole is concerned about the impact that the e. U. Policy is to 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 one has a managed is a new and even more criminal structure is it and what about the aid were constantly promised where is it only promised 2300 heroes to people who give up Human Trafficking for good. And that one when ive had people used to earning 1900 a month. Or to propose him its just a one off payment what. If i marry she says the dangers of that. Is that illegal traffickers secretly take people with them. And send them straight to their deaths door a lot more as happens nearly every week but really every week should be in place shocks young people from Subsaharan Africa are simply left to fight the events in the middle of the desert. Faced saw. The journey has become more dangerous and more expensive to without money many migrants become stranded in other days and many resort to sex work. If he she arrives here panelists they have nothing at all. So they have to make money somehow. Its measure of that these women offer their services to less than 10 year olds 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 with the traffic a has given them accommodation while they wait they cook will be their only meal of the day. Well there was what is it it. Was you were. Going to order the girl over there while he was in the courtyard a few young women gathered around another woman a few years older than a are we soon realize what is happening the nigerian mafia has come to neighboring mission to recruit sex workers. Altogether. Whats to gird says. The young women dont realize that the older woman is a paid recruiter 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 that she is walking out as you want to. Do you know you spoke this is the danger for go that route and sometimes the worst if you press to yourself yeah we know. That but you know with this small gesture there are crucial in 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 traumatized mentally and physically despite the dangers of the journey many of the people he have attempted it several times. In and it is the i. O. M. Office the food and shelter its a prepared to return home for point. But. This white board lists the nationalities of everyone in the camp so take any for example 182 migrants are from their own assad government. Right now there are 399 people here and all i can remember a number thought it was a couple and is enough just to see how many have you helped in 2017 and we. 5000 people piers i didnt see 5000 men women and children who have survived the terrible journey the camps doctors try to help as best they can. See. They arrive here war now and with all kinds of illnesses sometimes theyre totally de 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 easily view but i see. What happens here let me tell you through your time making sure. You guys are supposed to contribute. To agree to this because i get it through when i go to those that are the pits and so i should build them as just one before the current 21 people could see many injuries teaches b. S. More effectively i didnt kill you because yes we get a lot of people with gunshot wounds to. The wounds get infected and we often have to amputate the leg. There because you start to go see before these gunshot wounds come from bandits demand that migrants hand over everything they possess you have to do she do forms you dont see he says you see this if the migrants refuse you if you do need you they get shot at the force you see they brought up box you dont know sometimes i migrants suffer gunshot wounds when the army shoots at a value girls that theyre in it but much else. The local traffic is still live victims to libyan ones. These men from cameroon oh theyre risky to a place between warring militias. So kind of you know i want to go home this is recent terrible things migrants were beaten and raped castrated because this happens to a lot of people. Why do you need to be. Yes. So often human is 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 shut up so they locked her in a dark hole after that i never saw her again if i gave water to a man i couldnt understand a man no he spoke english the next morning they killed him as if he were a cockroach that was the worst stuff theyve decided. Szilard is it that iran of the desert at the mediterranean the abuse germ if i tell my brothers dont try this absolutely not i didnt want to believe it is human 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. Coming. Into. 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 Missions 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 called and. The man recorded his girlfriends phone call. A little. Resolute a place im at is unbearable we were heading towards a silly but the libyan coast guard quarter. Since then i have been in this prison to even get raped tear and night arabs come and take women with them to be sold to brothels and. I dont want that happen to me. Because summer 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 u. N. Agency are tries to obtain the release of his many migrants as 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 sometimes on so please listen to this. Yell or from god as our hearts. So the guy they tie the women up with this is that they want to sleep with a woman they tie up her arms and legs and hang her from the right for the not for that art at the show. So cerebral that is horrible and painful to hear because what can be done to help her to feel it sounds like one of the unofficial Detention Centers in the official ones conditions complete band but not as terrible as they are if shes in the hands of traffickers now International Aid organization can gain access to oxy. 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. And i dont have the number of the cell phone the traffic is gave her said that she can beg her family for the money it is a good idea always looks call her in italy. For your 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 euros thats what happened to several women hand and 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 trail so me really with babies and pregnant women they charge 1700. 00 yuan for the other women 1200 euros. Is not safe many of the 600 us please i want out of here i cant take it here anymore thank you. I know. In tripoli people are being bought and sold and what is being called a modern slave trade. These give me and said just been free for many be imprisoned by the Un Refugee A