it has been nicknamed the russian low because of its similarity to be press if russian legislation used to sons critics and independent media that's it, show up to date the next on the w. a close upset. so avoid the st. paul cummings, 1st mission to save migrants, the mediterranean sea types. next, i'll be back to the top of the my name is the calls back. said loud. thank you so much for joining in. welcome to don't hold bad. a lot of people do that. it's all about saying it aloud. that's what it being nosy bay like good. everyone to king the healthy award winning called called the called back. the

a group of volunteers is angel in the mediterranean seats rushing to help refugees in distress. how many? many babies? many of the risk you volunteers have only just learned how to save lights in the last few days. now they're pushing the fresh training to the test and didn't really care which position i would do. i just wanted to go and help the refugees. they help us lean goal and persecution in their home countries. many has been on the move for years and a deeply traumatized. every single human life we save here matters. cognizant type . the mediterranean sea is the world's most deadly refugee roots. since 2014

of 829000 people have drowned here on their way to europe. the march 2022 gas and risk and others are traveling to poland. their plan is to buy a vessel conversate into a rescue ship and use it to rescue refugees from drowning in the mediterranean. we just got a call from the fleet manager. he told us, the captain said the weather had gotten a lot worse than 2 years ago without any pro henry experience guessing. and a handful of like minded people found this assigned seat c punks in the past few months. they've raised 200000 euros in donations. just been kind of really worried

about whether this will work or not. we've been working toward this for so long on the worst thing i can imagine right now is that we all have to take the train back home because we don't have the ships they going to take a look at a ship in poland, which might suit the needs so far they've only seen pictures of it is definitely 6 or meeting at the ship at 6, or we'll do all the paperwork and then he'll send someone out shopping and we'll be off and they've reached the pools in poland. if everything goes well, the group will sign the purchase agreement today and transfer the ship straight to germany. the space have to sales of and i've seen it in the pictures, but it looks pretty different in real life. so i'm, i'm the, it's amazing. this guy,

it's huge. 12 bags. the ship is the 50 years old. it's down to down to the fishing boat. been was used as a sort of a vessel. it's time for the group to make a decision. ok. you have to read that. yeah, absolutely. all right, we already check before, so i'm fine. my name is on it. that's the main thing. the ship changes hands for 220000 year of buying. it brings gas on and the group a big step closer to the goals. they have set up with standing idly buying as ricky cheese drowned in the mediterranean. when it comes to your it's external boat is guess and believes the block is failing to live up to its responsibilities. of the thing, if you think about the north sea in the baltic sea, there's a kind of solidarity there on those plus. but when it happens elsewhere and not directly on your own doorstep, everyone looks the other way. in the end,

it's happening on our european doorstep. and if you're a p and states won't do something about it, we'll have to be full. the sheets itself on its 1st rescue mission. it has to be converted at the garage, spelled adults to see punk one is 27 meters long and could accommodate up to 100 people. rebuilding it takes several months longer than planned. in the end, the modifications cost another 100000 bureaus in august 2023. it's finally ready to ship is now mode in the port of brianna in spain. the 1st commission is just days away. gas, so is the only c punks member joining the crew software that is not sort of of course we're excited. this is the can emphasis. now we can finally stop talking about it and nothing and actually do what we came here to do in good faith is in

the international crew is a mixed bag. there a team members here from easily fronts and jim many, many inexperienced in c rescue. others have been working as captains or operation lead as the is over the next few days. all of them will get to know the new tasks. one small group is responsible for see risk you practicing with life jackets. a new super role is the written, communicative. she's responsible for coordinating the operation from an inflatable thing and making 1st contact with the refugees. it goes well, but as every other trainings it's lindsay because it's now 3 people. so let's go to our engineering the strings to pull some of our our crew members

a helping them practice holding people on board leg it's not easy the . c the nice a new keys 25 and studies lower and parents off to university, she'd like to legally represent see risk you organization such as c punk. she's been working with refugees before he is helping them navigate the complicated asylum, thinking process. these will be closed offshore. assignments i worked with border needs of blood press 6 months. so basically as mess direct me the survivors out

like this, that's the roots. and i know that once people have drones, there's really not a lot of things that we can do. so that's why i decided to go above good, proven directly and to try to prevent as much as possible up to 10 days of training. the team a heads for the search and rescue area between 2 needs. the intentionally, the, the captain gets the signal to push off observation from range yet we can start to bring on board the, the stand line. this 3rd line over this whole operation was financed with donations. it will cost $45000.00 bureaus. the most expensive part of this trip is the fuel for the ship gas on will be documenting the mission. the crew will be its

seat for several weeks. it was white and intense and some people waving at us and yeah, now it's the reality. like we actually going, i feel super heavy about it comes way to apply every single day. evelyn, in the past few weeks, the submission is finally getting underway. no one quite knows what awaits them at sea captain, not to roach and tore his being on a number of missions. he also works as a lawyer, international maritime lowell states that people in distress at c must be hills. despite these rescue crews of repeatedly use of human trafficking as a captain,

arturo has also been under investigation by the electric pink. you're doing something wrong. so you quite convinced then you try to convince yourselves that okay, i've seen people so good. i'm not wrong. shortly after the ship pauses the valley, eric islands, the way that was since the 1st time christina hilts from slaves. the coach done his training to become a doctor. she's responsible for providing medical care to week and injured refugees . but at the moment, christina has to take care of the crew. the advocates off the crew is seasick.

if too many people get si 6 and we wouldn't be able to complete the training, we'd plan so the crossing over run through some simulations. at the moment we barely able to keep the ship running. we don't fully operational yet. the group decides to drop off the coast of san diego to recover and complete that final exercises the, on average, a rescue mission can last 2 to 4 weeks. christina trains the other 12 crew members so they can help provide medical care setting. that's this. i'm hate to assess. team with a must have search engine people. that's hardly i deal with the small hospital and just to medical stuff. but it's still better than nothing at all for you and for the data i spend a month on the to christina

is specializing to become in a nice fittest. she works here on a voluntary basis. she 1st came into contact with refugees. 2 years ago, in bosnia providing medical kits of people fleeing along the bulk on route one of the fog, a vast miss moore to view if you ask, what motivates me? i have a 1000 different offices from, i'm mentioned from a humane perspective, people a drowning. so at the moment we're pulling them out of the water, this position off. and it's not just about human rights. it's about what he's ethically acceptable. and i don't want to be parts of europe that lets people drown a new can guess on. also practicing resuscitation, the

kinds i'm to start, i realize resuscitation is aren't always successful. most and just i might be the one who attempted and someone could die in the process. this could be something that haunts me, perhaps for the rest of my life for flight. they've reached the search and rescue zone between shanicea and easily. the crew has been at sea for 10 days. the training is complete, their mind is still pretty calm with just a tiny bit nervous and sporting a boats in distressing the vast mediterranean these notes easy from here to see. looks endless pacifically that essentially were like an ambulance travel thing about as fast as a bicycle across a space,

the size of bavaria and sales. but there is so many refugees that see that they don't have to look for them on a fishing fuel informs the captain of folks in distress. nearby, you've got to location. okay, i'll have to fight the crew right away. how much time do we have? it's time to put what they've trained into practice. a new has never been on such a rescue operation, let alone coordinated one. she'll need to remember all her training to help her team and the people that rescuing stay calm the approach to both i have. so the decision like, well this is actually people to stay and i so faces. i don't know, i think i had like maybe 3 seconds of it says unreal. and then i put myself in my reef communiques or shoes. again. how many

how many babies? one, baby, it's a nukes job to establish trust with the refugees. she has to prevent them from panicking and pulling into the router. this is where your safety a nuke has to be careful not to get too close to the shop age. the middle clothes that seem evacuated to the people into the dingy one by one children. first, a space is limited. the people here have been at sea for 3 days without food for protection from the sun, the old, the hydrated, and extremely weak of the baby. and then

another child was starting to get in conscious. and it was like really necessary to all these had to be sure this to is, to bring things at this moment that i, as gerson to intervene into hopes ahead of the child getting late. so one of the children stopped breathing. one simple, the rescue ship. christina had to resuscitate the child. the situation is critical . the children are being looked after on board. the crew returns to pick out more people then something goes wrong. a wave watches the inflatable thing,

the against the refugees middle, but i think the thing is deflating. more so rushing into the tech visit the fader. and especially because it was next to the actual 1st rescue that they did in for a moment. i actually did that. i couldn't make it that i was fits for the position . the thing is no longer see where the fortunately another rescue see if he's close by. they help the see punk spring old refugees safely on board. the child who had to be resuscitated is in such

a pool state that the crew requested emergency medical transport from the italian coast guard. the speed boat already has all the refugees on board and takes the people to the island of lump into the sum of 60 kilometers away. okay, think it was just amazing from every single person how they work for me that only made it possible to keep the child life they had a child who is trying to type out of set isn't crime. interesting. so touch brown, a few. so thank you so much for that. the other refugees are in stable condition. they come all the way from the need in west africa, around 6000 kilometers away. the 37 percent of people suffer from malnutrition, and almost half the country leads below the prophecy lines. altura contacts the

coast guard. so be there to, to, to phone, to, to about to go through. we have 42 people on board to see from corn. the coast got us to see if anyone else on board requires urgent medical care the. the probably means that we will get another case. otherwise it wouldn't do it right . yes. yes, because they just do it. so to have us empty and then and was sentenced to the next case. an hour and a half later the coast, god returns to pick up the remaining people. the dines, i just need one on the one. and you can see the people's elation because they think we've made a, we're going to europe now comes up, but they have no idea what awaits them. but they won't be given the chance to build

a new life here and to access the opportunities that you and i have is white europeans and the so called free europe. i saw it will pay off. it's not all that free for people who aren't from here. so this one here come, soul sky, it will hope, and this is the refugees of both the see punk one approach to them producer and italian islands just of the 2 new jersey and coast for over 10 years. they seen a hush contrast here between glitzy tourism and people pleading from conflict and crisis. it's the most frequent points of 1st arrival for refugees seeking to reach you are. the conflicts that arise from these are an everyday occurrence for the island, 6000 residents. one of them is the oddest chuckle most fell out. so in his studio he exhibits some of the upticks. those on the run have left behind so it looks that this is an old car radio that used to be installed in wooden boats. and then i was on the pedal many long, they were bigger back then,

then the bass gave us than letting you know got enough to get on the now the refugees arrive and smaller boats made of sheet metal or arn pan, which are much more dangerous. give them stuff if that goes across the island, giacomo is known for his creasy collapse that shoot t fee is long, produces infrastructure will collapse under the strain a space, so not in. and so what it is that it's often impossible to take the ferry to on it because it's already being used to transport miger and say, no, i have an in law live in a hardly any seats available on flights on this because they are all occupied by police or the red cross northern or the language of those when they are just medical care was already per now it's collapsing on the demand strain and so on and on funds. you want to buy deep. it's a 10 pregnant women arrive at the port on sick people who require treatment at the clinic going, so it gets there. and as we all know goes kind of get an ambulance. i mean, she have no access to the emergency room. and taking my godaddy out of the limits

here again, and so you've got to be unplugged peers to the problem is the increased presence of police, military and other authorities is also changing the island his way of life. the strictly controlled reception center for refugees. the so called hotspots means a lot more police are on the island. giovanni for i've got plenty is the full mayor of lum producer. from the 5 year olds point of view, the government in run has lit. he's a little island down. a pretty same. so let's go to the, i don't blame the migrants for god's sake alone. we have nothing against these people. we want to take them in, but we need support most to be done and to create the right conditions on the journey deals for got it. is giovanni, come off to me. how are you doing?

let me see. before he was elected man, giovanni was an art teacher on the island. giacomo is one of his former students. why does it look how beautiful? just last night. another boat with the $200.00 refugees arrived at port. in september 2023, some 12000 migrants move in twice the population. arrived in one unprecedented week . the small island was overwhelmed and declared the strength of emergency the lot. okay. people say that the volunteer rescue ships encourage people to flee, but that's not true. to get those stuff, we should have to thank them for their work. very much. we'd see many more depths without them. this is one of the place and that's what will happen if they cease to exist. it would be to me like a maloney on the phone to lie in and all the others won't stop migration just by

talking about it in the home then line, let me alone. oh yeah. in late 2020 to georgia maloney's cabinet. post a decree making civil c rescue more difficult. it's doubtful whether this policy will ever bring any relief to the people on lum producer. beckett c at the task. the c thumbs describe another voting distress. the group has managed to make some makeshift repairs to their thinking. the please, they see that the yeah, i know. tell me when we're closer than 30 centimeters a day,

we don't want to touch the boat. as all the water is leaking into the refugees close. this one is full of accompanied miners and they don't have enough fuel to reach the show. then the crew notices that they think he is losing air again. the, the. it takes the crews 3 hours to get everyone on board safely. imagine you're on a boat that is thinking on the crowd in the middle of the night in the mid the

throne and see. and suddenly there is this both coming and this woman a life giving you kind of orders telling you that you have to work together this crazy. no. every one is relieved and exhausted. so she 9 more people safe and resting these times those rescued running for more and persecution in sudan and humans. the next morning, the coast guard assigned to see punk one opposed to a 17 year old refugee wants to tell his story for his own protection. he'll remain anonymous how often one of the how do it for you, my fled to war and human with my little brother. and i see that i've got to do across to 9 countries. i don't live here in prison and tortured pretty model cloud

. i took my brother away from me in the emerald city. i still don't know where he is. that you want me to have that, you know. after several attempts he managed to flee across the mediterranean from tennessee. yes, the hate audio was southern could it's difficult to describe the things i experienced in my country, the glue minded we all want to forget what happened. i'm now trying to think about my new life sheet about how i can build a secure future for myself. i'm new, invest across all the refugees. i've told christina they have stories eventually, but i've, i've, i've met people who have been on the move for years under the most adverse conditions and they've gotten so fond. of course. these are people with a mense knife experience, and so we real decades behind by comparison, even though most of them were under 18 at the time. last back in lump, reduce, the refugees have reached europe. now they'll have to embark on another alone and we

reach any, the asylum process. the authorities register the new arrivals. it's time for the crew to review the 1st ever mission, the se punk, successfully rescued refugees in distress with their own ship. as been often fires, but i'm so relieved to see that we've reached the point we've been working towards for almost 4 years that i saw this. the also been a way we can act as a catalyst for others who think the same way and say yes and screw borders. one foot motors are just an abstract construct thought up by people living on this earth, and mostly exploited by those living and privilege. and that's what we often, even if we only make a small change, at least we're trying to be visible and show others there. are people actually doing something about it. all right, thank you. you're welcome to join in or you can just carry on talking about it. none of us are alone in our dissatisfaction with the situation. even of 2 years and

thousands of deaths in the mediterranean, europe has not found announcer without civilians. the rescue is even more refugees would be tragically drowning unless they run from the violence that drove them from their homes in the 1st place or the people and trucks injured to attract defeat, the city center the straight pieces the around the world more than 150000000 people us

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