of course, we say they're about never giving up every weekend on dw, 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 is left of a past one share? and what do today's distinct cultures have in common? journalist xena panel, mosse, rock and joe. far up to korean, 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 knowledge assignment 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 pub mine. this is the home. it's the full kind of mount sadness in the sicily lives just beyond the coast of to nicea tania, the island 2nd largest city dismissal beneath the mountain.

the tradition at a citrus phase, his loan being grown in this 1st heil reaching. let's see if i can help with the winter home. the age i find myself with an orange conversation. this made it like a lemon, but it's an orange things i'm going to jump right in because i want to make myself useful. and i've got the right food, so the job way too big, effective, effective around 1500000 tons of citrus trade to produce every year on sicily. organic fall moments lady calling out the hobbies around 100000 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 to use the blood orange inside the fruit.

there was this intense red color that's typical for this region. so for the area around the katana yet 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 colors, the origin of the okay, if i stick atlanta, sees you going to into your file, all your orange us and what does it mean for the region? we've got a rather special distribution channel. we sell to acquisition group, or in other words, private individuals will join forces to 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 so i 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 product, 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 trust for despite product into something meaningful for the fashion industry. and there's a family of materials that are called manmade cellulosic fiber, and they all contain sunroof, as a complement rate for the semester, the necessary some white top, it's everything that is not the 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, yeah. i touch a slide. so yeah, exactly. we saw a lot of things this. i think it's a top or something. yeah. how does it have to be a and we have a scar here as the cops golf? yeah. okay. so it's like it looks very amazing on your

orange find that has already made a name for itself. it's the size, especially, and companies across the spectrum with the seemingly endless supply of room material on hand, the stokes and to escape the developments. 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 plans and hold meeting with other people then also just work by you. so 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 portal. i would say the fish smoke hits the

the sci fi looks irresistible for us. i find myself drawn to something else to sicilian men. thing in the. 2 fine job. uh huh. that screws artichoke. filled with garlic and parsley. okay. you can just eat it like that's good. good. all just the the cathedral square with the blacks. now the rook 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. they travel. i'm here for a very special meeting with a young man on with the right to you. and a bunch of donald will just say, my name is the nav. yeah. so no, the patient got a lot. betcha. you know, i don't know. made me call the police going the cool. not efficient medicaid. maybe option what that a not a problem. cool. cool. me fun, really base. she sure. yeah, julian, yeah. me see the name on the 0, the page to me. i mean, you'll see big, clear, good 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 so that is the to thank you for having me. yeah, thank you. are very talented man. can you tell me more about your work with pop of sold the foot buena,

the golshani. i was fortunate enough to learn just wonderful art from my grandparents a scene that'd be cool. and ever since i'm a small african, passionate about my art for jobs. well, my 1st experience on stage was that the money on the person got to move the public warming. the history of the system is pure drama, and few contented stories as well as the daily napoli. ketani is most famous family of public chairs. the lady needs to fix theater in the system. it began around the year 1831 associate. it flourished until the arrival of the cinema television in the 1966 on the leak, which means that was the beginning of a crisis that our families provide. federal, 80 monks to the tenacious and that's that, that's kind of 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 up planning about the sicilian mix since the middle ages . a very familiar with the heroes and heroines that show in the legend. we have yacht, children, and adults. they come and watch your, your, your show. but on maint downloaded it. we have a very broad, rapid tour from current engine f. exhaust suits, a shakespearean tragedy associates. next week, we're presenting a very special text to the moment, the fashion not appropriate that can truly do anything to be able to. the sicilians maintain a special bond with moma at now, then it named the tourist active volcano in europe. vulcan ologist to set pay salon . no. takes me up the mountain. we stopped sink atanya in glittering sunshine, the

3000 meters above sea level. it's a completely different picture, the a rupture. 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 that option. one thing is very, very low off to do that option web dilemma flow can reach and the doubts that anyway, since 20. yeah. see, we have a very decent, astonishing gets, but to see about option about the effect is not the so strongest of the society, they'll affect the use of the dash, the full out team day in the town. and so rounding guy to talk about that kind of explosive activity, lots few hours that we get quite windy up. the yes and i've had enough light. we just asked if the codes go into the car and drive back down the mountain. so

we're headed for the national institute for diaz, physics and so chronology to what's known as the war room. the 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 new season. they're the same sort of land, you mean, where all the money to activity over this issue then what kind of salt? nope, just the economics also with kind of strongly and also of about, excuse me, captivity impact of the cc. it is monitoring 24 hours, 7 days. and you show me this monitoring thing. but what's the out here we go, i can and also we go so we set it up on our meters. we are taking savings by taking

the life behavior of economics from blue. com. so add a thing here, kind of boss, to try to for the cost, and i've got $3.00 to $3.00 day by day is apply that to you here in sicily, cause it's not my, my, it's not that you know why. if you born here, me, when you go open your eyes, the face of the thing searching you spot the list. so we go off with these huge mounting to us out for the rest of the life. so it's something like, i'm the to me my my now with 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 popes of the population started to push back to the are too many see behind me on the solid is not building giovanni fi coordinate and how low bassetti no. does that include the 2 judges supposed organized crime on this island and paid for it with the night? i do switch him leaving stuff with the in the historic center with palermo, i meet key out true from the mc mfc and movement deal. so more and more business people are refusing to pay protection money to the mass here and then making those secrets of it that pushing because in the shop windows, the people asked estimate to it's

about a month. yeah. yeah. what do you think is behind this customization? unload aussies. so the better 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 books 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 response. you know, i'm off of you and saw a buddy got seal and this that one uh the uh, association side that work. okay. and that's what's up to the association emerged in 2004, initially by chance when a good to university friends decided they wanted to open a bonus. you also mentioned it up to tom. they said, how are we going to deal with the most fuels?

the who come to demand extortion money from the store, we prepared to pay the on so was clearly know what you're supposed to forgot it. that is supposed to not a deal pete, so means farewell pizza or extortion money. piano would show has been involved with the initiative since hes student days. now she works as a tool guide showing to risk the of the palermo without the mafia. we meet valentino sharpoda, who owes that refuses to pay the peach. so i saw the official logo by there had to do, and i have problems with them last year coming to you and say, hey, go, i think you have to pay for it? no, no, no, no. he's never had any problem. having the logo in the store gaz these people off at best bet. so we've never had any issues with some of the needs of the jeanette attorney killed 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 number's probably going down, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be dropping off god after all, even if it's no fix, doting, anyone mafia is trying to such as dominance in other ways. it's remarkable housing and tina and many other business people in sicily 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. now, do you ever know know 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 people in the c, i mass just people facing the human b. i came to the to she watch, including a couple of other kids to the owners. and then she bought a letter and then she watch cheaper. there is the platform that she don't cost the people in this cannot be less bad. sometimes people talk about migration and problems, but you will have a view of the situation with the migration or even interview because we have

the final release 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 born in palermo. yes. well, that's really important. more sorry for you. yeah. but for my, for my, this is not a part of okay. you really political, 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 booth is not. this is a, is not the se, dividing the people and the zip codes, and then what time is they're leaving the carpet in the back to the people to be able to meet. so when you come in, let them know you'll see like now i'm traveling out of the presence

across the island to traces of the islands tossed in syracuse, the backend on secrets. a syracuse was the largest and wealthiest city in the entire mediterranean region. house 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 could use the number of things including home, except to end the 1st christian community in your home to 40 just phones. the city's historic center. to day 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 color, the the monica is about an hour shy, sensitivities highlights of this unesco wells heritage sites. i mean it's magnificent. pepsi and rocks a creek buildings. the picturesque town as modica is home to the island of this chocolate factory. the chocolate 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 dablin and utah. i'm due to meet the head of the family business. francesco, for tasting they've been making chokes and motor cuttings. 18 ac

francisco explains the production price. that's what makes the chokes. that's a special have you have to be a little select? oh, okay. like this one here too. yeah. mm hm. volume to put it in though. yeah. okay. is this this one? yes. yes. okay, and 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'm doing. that also seems like new stuff. so yeah, let's do this. let's click a window of the it breaks. this is as far as the see from the ship. we me quote from us our percent with sugar. that is, looks like to bring you to a box of chocolates. yes. you have to ship. i see here you have different savers. you have a solid. you have monday and you have, uh uh, ginger. you want to try them in b a y s. yep. so we have here. yep. 65 percent and that will run 65 percent. 65 percent coupon miles the out of

pocket 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 me 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 as being i felt just

a little bit at home. since the house i've always discovered something that had been familiar with from america, for example, and sometimes from gemini, i, on best on 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 you to help us get the what best mission, mice and the vague type. what stayed with me the most that is with all the countries we've visited and things are changing. testers. during 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. the honda canada fetch hetzel mentioned me. 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 resistance to the steps the

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