is available for every language and has never been done online on facebook. due to the, the mediterranean was once a major crossroads at the heart of the ancient. today it has become a barrier separating europe from africa. is there anything less of a past one share? and what do 2 days distinct cultures have in common? journalist xena las rog and joe far abdul karim, travel the coast of the mediterranean, in search of answers. you see yourself as a to be in june and responsibilities. how can you

help me to join us to get to know the people and their dreams mediterranean the hi. today i'm on the largest islands in the mediterranean sicily. as you'll be able to see quite easily behind me, there are enough to know if i'm wrong about in these pups wine. this is the home. it's a full kind of mountain. now, seeing the sicily lives just beyond the coast of to nicea tania, the i in the 2nd largest city is nestled beneath the mountain.

the tradition at a citrus phase has known being grown in the 1st heil region. let's see if i can help with the winter home. the reason i find myself as an orange conversation, this made it like a lemon, but it's an orange of i'm going to jump right in because i want to make myself useful on times. i've got the right food, so the job way too big, effective, effective around 1500000 times the citrus true to produce every year on sicily. organic fall moments lady cuz i now the hobbies around $100000.00 kilos of our inches. know just in the province of cataneo, but in other provinces as well. what time it was a special about the outlines of here on sicily, the specially value this region special g is the blood orange. inside the fruit,

there was this intense red color that's typical for this region. so for the area around cataneo and close to aetna, vanya, this is because the mountain causes temperatures tend to change quickly. they want to end this strong difference between day and night. the color is the orange and all the okay, if i stick 11 to see if you're going to into your file, all your orange us and what does it mean for in the region? we've got a rather special distribution channel and we sell to acquisition group. or in other words, private individuals will join forces that you develop a relationship with the products they're buying. and these are almost always organic and our farming methods have been exclusively organic since 1992 my father started and my brother and i carry on the traditional, we really believe it's the future.

if i think it's time for me to try, one of these are inches of the sy picked to myself to say it smells amazing. it's very g. c and suites and says is delicious. but what about the inevitable bits of 5? you wouldn't believe it, but someone who runs this city has come up with a really innovative way to put them to use this product guitar here is more than just an apple to real way to get to the beach. and in december it can get pretty cold. here. i'm here to meet and the rica, elena. company, orange. fine. but it's based in an old collapse. so in the old town. yeah. hi. nice to meet to meet you. thank you for a price. my pleasure. okay, hold of me about 10 years ago and began to colleagues came up with the idea of

combining to iconic italian products, citrus fruits and fashion. you take the orange and you squeezy, and what you have left is pretty much 50 percent of the original way. so what we thought is a way to thrust for this by products into something meaningful for the fashion industry. and there's a family of materials that are called men made cellulosic fiber. and they all contained setting rules as a complement rate for the semester, the necessary some white top, it's everything that is not to water. oh so and then from that we extract the settings and the cellulose that we extract look like these pretty much. so it's like paper yeah, yes. touch a slide. so. yeah, exactly. we saw a lot of things this. i think it's a top or assumption. yeah. how does it have to be a and we have us the car here as the cops golf. yeah. okay. so it's like it

looks very amazing on you orange fine, but has already made a name for itself. it's supplies, especially in companies, across the spectrum, with the seemingly endless supply of room material on hand. there's still plenty of scope the development. wow. and that's the most casanya you can see from here. and by the way, you can see people when you walk on a place like this was amazing. you, you get more inspiration than i think it's a fluid for your, your company, your vision. and it's a pleasure to all your clients and holds meeting with other people then also just work. but you're also surrounded by kasanya is a port to see in east in sicily. many residents still depend on fishing for their livelihoods from and because of fest, it's not fall to the port, it would say the fish smoke hits the

the sci fi looks irresistible, but i find myself drawn to something else to sicilian men, thinking the. 2 launch. uh huh. that screws artichoke. filled with garlic and parsley. okay. you can just eat it like that's good. all just the the cathedral square with the blacks. now the rock elephant is the hoss of the city. all the main shopping streets find out from here. the people are, they are through is also just

a short walk away. which our line here for a very special meeting with a young man with the right to bundle on all your my name is snap. so no, the patient got a lot. betcha meal. i don't know, made me call the police on the kola efficient medicaid, maybe arch in with that a mighty pro google me find really big she will. yeah. julian, yeah. be, see the lot is roll them on the computer, but it see, oh, the 1st thing that i mean you'll see big corner to get on the. okay. there seems to be a lot to talk about here. but what i want to know is who's pulling the strings, i'm going to take a look. hello, that is the to thank you for having me. yeah, thank you. who are very talented men, can you tell me more about your work with public folder fortuna. the going all

shitty. i was fortunate enough, the color and the wonderful arts from my grandparents a scene that'd be cool. and ever since i'm a small african, passionate about my art for jobs. my 1st experience on stage was that the money on the person does move the public warming. the history of system is pure drama and few contented stories, as well as the fact daily napoli, ketani his most famous family of public chairs, the need soon theater in the system. it began around the year 1830 or so. yet it flourished until the arrival of the cinema television in the 1966. that equally exact was the beginning of a christ lot. that's our families provide federal, 80 monks to the tenacious nurse. and that's kind of going to be my grand parents being on the k. no, determined not to give way to the looming monstrosity that was television data,

not the least you own it. for generations, local children have grown out planning about the sicilian mix since the middle ages . they're very familiar with the heroes and heroines that fiction in and let you know, oh, we have here, children and adults, they come and watch your, your show. but on maint, i've downloaded it. we have a very broad rapids for from current engine epics of suits, a shakespearean tragedy associates. next week, we're presenting a very special text on mobile devices. not on the appropriate side. can truly do anything to be able to use the sicilian to maintain a special buttons with mama. edna then named the to list active volcano in europe. broken ologist to set pay salon know takes me up the mountain we saw think atanya in glittering sunshine. the

3000 meters above sea level, it's a completely different picture, the abrupt what can happen to the people in cub, tanya, and what are the 2nd to us on demand? so obviously the, all the kind of adoption at one thing is very, very low off to do that option web dilemma flow can reach the doubts that anyway. since 20. yeah. see, we have a very decent, astonishing gets but to see about option. but to the effect is not the so strongest the society, they'll affect the use of the dash that full out in the, in the town. and so rounding guy to talk about that kind of explosive activity. the last few hours that hit quite wednesday of the jazz and i've had to now we get asked if the codes go into the car and drive back down the mountain side.

we're headed for the national institute for the physics and so can knology to what's known as the war room. he is scientists keep a close eye on aetna. it's one of the world's most active volcanoes and puts on the radical lava display to remind us of that fact the disease and the same sort of lines. you mean, where all the money to activity over this is you them look into something. nope, just economics also move kind of strongly it also of about in sysmic activity. in fact of the cc, it is monitoring 24 hours, 7 days. and you show me this monitoring thing. but what's the out here? we oh, i can and also because we'd set it apart, i meters, we are taking se one's by saving the life behavior of i strongly blue. com. so add

a thing here in the foster to try to for the cost. and that's the only thing they buy day is apply that to you here in sicily, cause my my s month ago. why? if you born here me, when you go open your eyes, the face of the thing searching you spot the list. so we get off. yeah. we nice, huge mounting to us out for the rest of the life side. salting. like, i'm the, to me, my, my now was a very cold experience and i'm glad to be heading back to miles and mediterranean, climbed to palermo to be precise. so my next meeting i have to travel across the island from the east to its capital city.

almost 700000 people live in palermo. for a long time, it was seen as the strong cold of the sicilian mafia until pumps of the population started to push back the. the 2 men you see behind me on this is the saw just not building giovanni 1st coordinate and how low both city. no. does that include the 2 judges supposed organized crime on this island and paid for it with then i do switch him, leaving the in the historic center with palermo. i me to key out true from the n t mfc and movement deal. so more and more business people are refusing to pay protection money to the mass. yeah. and then making those secrets of is that pushing because in the shop windows, the people asked me to it's

about a month. yeah. yeah. what do you think is behind this customization? unload aussies. so that way yes, unfortunately, that's true. and it is tiny detrimental to those who are trying to fight against the mafia every day. very often, the nation emanates from stories and smokes and movies. the godfather, for example, but there's nothing charming or glamorous about the mafia funding. the mafia is violent and harassment child the one the response. you know, i'm off of you land saw if anybody got sue on this that one uh the association stopped their work. okay. and the social the association emerged in 2004, initially by chance when a go through university, friends decided they wanted to open a bong. she had also mentioned it up to tom. they said,

how are we going to deal with the must fuels the who come to demand extortion money from us from the store. we prepared to pay the on. so was clearly note and we'll discuss the forgot it. that is supposed to know. do you, pete? so means farewell pete. so or extortion money. yeah, it would show has been involved with the initiative since the student days. now she works as a to guide showing to arrest the of the panorama without the mafia. we meet valentino a shelf bona who also refuses to pay the peach. so i saw the official logo by there . and did you ever have problems with the math? you're coming to you and say, hey go, i think you have to pay for it? no, no, no, no, we've never had any problems. having the logo in the store gaz these people off at best bet. so we've never had any issues. if the some of the nice of the genetic soon he killed g the same, but i saw new generations opening and running businesses in sicily today have

a different mentality. and that's why they're not paying. unfortunately, there's no way of knowing how many are actually paying the most probably going down, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be dropping off god after all, even if it's not like starting anyone, mafia is trying to such as dominance in other ways. it's remarkable housing and tina and many other business people named cecilia taking a stand against the mafia. tragedies, tacoma, daily in the pool, to spell m. o. and across the region as a whole, the mediterranean sea is now the world's deadliest the crossing. no, sir, no, no, most 1600 people died or went missing, trying to reach your rep from africa. the mattress, palermo, deluca orlando, allows rescue vessels to duck in the city,

in defiance of orders from central government. the. it's no surprise that we're meeting at the mercy, void t a cafe and education project for young refugees the like to know why are you so open and support? see, watch, and all the people who helped the people in the c. i mass just people facing a human being. i came from the to she watch, including a couple of other kids in the organization. is she both of them? and then she watch sheet, but there is the problem that she to cause the people in this cannot be less bad. sometimes people talk about migration and problems,

but you will have others. you will also situation up with the migration or even interview because we have the migrant in front of lucy impediments. but for you or with the migration, i'm not like the pixies up there. okay. i made a real decision between who was wanting palermo. yeah. well, that's really important, more sorry for you. yeah. but for my, for my, this is not a part of okay, what do we do when you say you are a blog that way? and then that is, it's very easy, and we are proud to leave in this part of the war. and the, we believe that moved over here is not, this is a con is not the se, dividing the people that comes and then what time is they're leaving because that's the best thing the people can be able to meet. so when you come in, let them know you'll select all. now i'm travelling asked if the president

across the island to traces of the islands passed in syracuse, the backend on secrecy. syracuse was the largest and wealthiest city in the entire mediterranean region, half a 1000000 people lived here, then almost 4 times as many as today. the day i'm in syracuse and the oldest culture of the town is actually an island and it will teach you based on the ancient greek word for quail. this little corner of the world produced a number of things including home except to end the 1st christian community in europe. for teacher forms the cities historic center. today, 3 bridges connected with the rest of syracuse head straight to the old town and on the pets documented, they discovered the goddess of hunting,

diana protector of syracuse, in the greek era. right next to the cathedral of santa maria de la colon. the, the monica is about an hour drive from syracuse highlights of this year, netscape. well heritage sites, i mean it's magnificent pepsi and the rocks a creek buildings the the picturesque town. as modica is home to the island of this chocolate factory. the truck is made according to ancient aspect method. i'm about to choice of myself . i do feel wondering how aspect cocoa beans got here in the 1st place that sold to do with the spaniards, who wants occupied these islands? at the antique at the chevy. i bought a utah, i'm due to meet the head of the family business. francesco, for tasting they've been making chokes anymore,

because since 18 ac francisco explains the production price, that's what makes the chokes. that's a special and you have to be a little select. oh, okay. like this one here too. yeah. mm hm. for volume to put it in the yeah. okay. this, this, this one here. yeah. this okay here. i know someone who's unable to resist. good chokes. that's my colleague, jeff, and he's taking a break from his mediterranean jenny to visit me in sicily. hey, what are you doing here? i wanted to surprise you. good to see you again. i wanted to find out what you've been up to. yeah. yeah, we'll talk about that in a minute. i don't want to interrupt you, but it just looks really interesting. yeah. yeah,

you should try the chokes that i loved doing that. also seems like new stuff. so yeah. it breaks the sea and say by the sea, we need a quote from us, our percent with sugar. that is, looks like to bring you to a bottle of chocolates. yes. you have to ship. i see here you have different savers. you have a solid. you have monday and you have the ginger, you want to try them and yes, well, yes, yes. so we have here the 65 percent and that will run

65 percent. 65 percent coupon minus the positive sugar. everyday. chocolate. yes. and this one is with this is the cinema one, the one because a lot of this. all right now we made and so good. yeah. it's so good. it's really good. i think it's my favorite it to the we've been on the mediterranean journey for 2 years now, interrupted by a global pandemic. and we're not finished yet. time for look back the we've experienced so much with surprise. you then the last, the last actually nothing. because everywhere, i mean, i felt just

a little bit at home ever since the house. i've always discovered something that had been familiar with from america, for example, and sometimes from gemini, i, on that time, what really impressed me was that all those southern regions that are often seen as on the developers. we've discovered an incredible amounts of innovation. and that's being inspiring and encourage him to skip the hoot, bust me some ice and the vague type which stayed with me the most that is with all the countries we've visited and things are changing. call testers. they're in the midst of a searching process and, and on. and i even call it a democratization process dimension. i'm people have an incredible yearning to be seen and to be heard on, on rubbish for long enough to find that kind of stuff that chat. so tension, i hope we can listen to each other more and the people on all sides achieve the kind of life they're striving for us, advice and investigated, resist us to the steps the

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