smuggling business within a short period of time. yes, it is a persistent problem in moldova, wolf. it goes beyond the people they have been able to target in the sting operation, but other smugglers there who they don t have a good handle on, and you are right, some of the people have not enough time, but they are sting operation, and the materiels are not a huge amount. again, this is a situation where it is not believed that these people necessarily are working with terrorist, but they simply don t care to whom they sell their materiels to. thank you, evan, very much. joining us to talk about this disturbing development, and joining us from irvine, california, is our cnn intelligence security analyst bob bair and also our expert robbie gosch. how would this be dangerous if they were to get their hands on
migrants landing there on that greek island and another island of cos everyday. they have these rubber pontoon boats traveling on choppy seas. we are in a substantial swell here trying to get over to the islands, carol. here on the turkish side of the channel here, we have seen a booming smuggling business where in towns and cities, you can see the syrians on every street corners carrying around backpacks with plastic backpacks sold openly on the streets, and waiting for the smugglers to call them, and they go down to coast to wait for the smugglers to push them out into the open waters, and what is even crazier, these refugees that i have talked to in the last day or so, they have only just
watson from turkey. reporter: christine, we re coming to you from the agean sea. this is an illegal crossing point for thousands of people a day trying to get into europe from turkey. they come there the turkish coast along different stretches of the turkish coast on small boats, often on not very seaworthy boats, and then they head out to sea. over there, for example, to the island of lesbos, that is a greek island. this is one of two eye lands that the united nations high commissions for refugees says he is receiving from 1,000 to 3,000 new migrants and refugees a day. now, the smuggling business here is not only sophisticated, it is also very brazen. we were in the turkish port city of ismir which we saw was jammed with syrian refugees sitting on their backpacks, holding plastic bags filled with life jackets that were being sold openly on
thank you, fred. it s a huge regional problem across europe, into turkey as well, syrian refugees overwhelming one port city. they re hoping to embark on what could be a dangerous boat ride to greece. ivan watson live in turkey, ivan, good morning. reporter: europeans concerned about the flood of migrants crossing their boarders, they better get ready because the smuggling business here in turkey is booming. the boats are leaving from the coast of turkey to islands, to a greek island, they re leading in board daylight. this smuggling operation is sophisticated and brazen. 30 people piling on these pontoon boats. what we saw in turkish port
hit the water i saw these women for the first time when i was seven or eight because we lived quite near the border it was perfectly normal to see them working between malaria and morocco of importance it s a form of survival because there are no jobs neither in malaya nor in morocco the only way to ensure a daily income is to join the smuggling business and carry the packages. and the porters are the final link in the smuggling chain in malaya you. go to the other one to the smugglers and millions of euros on the border on the other side there is the government which profits from the local it s eleven and other taxes a lot of profit is being made but it s not being distributed fairly the wearing on who shoulders the heaviest burden rests. in the least. minute.