So hello there and thank you for downloading the podcast this week. I'm Benjamin Zand the reporter in what you're just about to hear

from getting our car stuck in a river in the biggest desert in the world in Niger

to nearly being caught up in in rocket fire in

Libya. This is one of the most difficult recordings I've ever had to do, but it's

nothing compared to the struggles you will hear from the people making the trip on the migrant

trail in this documentary so I hope you enjoy it and I hope you learn something.

You go home. You go back home. You go back home. You go back home. You want to escape. You want to go to Europe.

Why you stay in this country?

In an underpass on the edge of Tripoli and Libya, a man shouts at a group of migrants

waiting to be offered work.

They're trying to raise money to pay for their crossing to Europe.

Why are you so angry?

I am angry because this is my country.

We want to build our country.

We had enough.

They are disturbing us.

Everybody escape from their country and they come to us here and they try to escape you know from the sea

some of them they die they don't know how to swims we are not responsible

ah go back to your country.

Libya in North Africa. It's long been a hub for migrants wanting to travel to Europe. There are currently

around 1 million here. In an already unstable country, the authorities

struggle to cope with the sheer volume of people, and it's causing tension on the streets.

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