>> every tuesday night. go one on one with america's movers and shakers. gripping. inspiring. entertaining. talk to al jazeera. only on al jazeera america. desperate journeys. more than 4,000 people rescued from the mediterranean in just 24 hours. hello and welcome to al jazeera. coming up civilians in south sudan flee the worst fighting in months according to the u.n. >> i am not perfect. nobody is perfect. but we can do a good job together i'm sure. [applause] blatter promises to clean up

world football's governing body after winning a fifth term as fifa's president. plus the founder of silk road sentenced to life in prison in the u.s. massive rescue operation in italy has saved more than 4,000 migrants trying to cross the mediterranean in the past 24 hours. let's bring you some live pictures now of some of the rescued migrants coming onto shore italy. the coast guard said calls were made from 22 different boats yesterday. bodies were found on three boats. we are live in sicily so we can see in the pictures people coming ashore. what happens to them next? >>reporter: well first they're going to be relocated by the

italian authorities somewhere across the country really. that's what has been going on for the past few weeks. basically the italian government has asked all the regions to pinpoint empty buildings where they could put the migrants. but sources say most of them don't want to stay in italy. this is not the final leg of their journey. they want to go further north. either where they have family or relatives or where they believe there are more job opportunities. so certainly the first stop would be in italy but in a few days maximum weeks, you'll see that most of these migrants are already gone to other european countries. and that's where the problem is. it's causing panic really across the continent. the eu has agreed lately to relocate or to give asylum status over the next two years to about 40,000 migrants but that's really a drop in the sea.

as we heard from the international office of migration, the head of that body said that the eu needs to go much further when it comes to the migrants and how to receive these migrants and integrate them in the communities across european countries. >> what about the suggestion of finding a plan to deal with the root causes of this problem. where does eu policy stand? >>reporter: well there is a conversation going on among eu members. they are considering military intervention off the coast of libya and maybe even with some pinpointed strikes in libyan harbors themselveses to try to go after the smuggler boats. but when you're on the libyan side of this story, you just realize how difficult that will be. there is no really -- there are known departure points but they shift all the time.

the coast guard was telling me that it's very difficult to go after smugglers because they adapt to any new development underground. there's also the fact that libya's coast is the largest in africa 2,000 kilometers and mostly empty, deserted beaches away from urban areas. and lately we've seen these migrants leave on inflatable dingies and they leave in the middle of the night from these empty beaches. also going after the network of smugglers will be very complicated because from my conversations with many migrants here in italy or in libya, it seems that this network of smugglers go across several african countries. it's a very complicated and sophisticated network of smugglers. and at the moment with the lawlessness in libya, it means these networks have flourished and the prices to come to europe have also dropped considerably. some as much as half as what it

used to cost last year in 2014. last year it was about $2,000. now it can go down to $500. >> all right. the challenges there of migration to europe. thousands of people are fleeing violence in south sudan as the government fights rebels there. the u.n. says the fighting is the worst in months. >>reporter: these men have just arrived at a camp for displaced people. they come from a village and have been on the road for 24 days. hiding in swamps during the day and only daring to walk at night in fear of government soldiers. they carry their -- he died on arrival here. >> my dad's health improved. he was even walking and talking. i went to look for food but when i returned he had died.

>>reporter: after days on the road a 1-week old has also survived. >> they beat us and killed some people. after burning our homes, we ran to the bushes where i delivered my baby. >>reporter: he underwent surgery. doctors without borders have received dozens of patients with bullet wounds since april. >> my son was with other people at the shed when the armed men came. they started shooting and took our cattle. my son hid in the swamp for the night. we had to leave the next day. >>reporter: thousands of people continue to leave villages to the south and east where a government offensive against rebels known as splm in opposition is going on. many have come to seek refuge

here. at least 21,000 in the last few weeks burdening the already-crowded camps. they come here for registration so they can get humanitarian help and then they'll receive food blankets mosquito nets. some people have been through this process before and those we talked to said it seems like a never ending cycle of suffering. at the camp his family is making his funeral arrangements. he'll be buried in a town he'd never visited before and so far away the home he lived in and loved all his life. she also starts her own life here again, so far away from home. the armed group boko haram is reported to have killed ten people in nigeria less than 24

hours after the country's new president was sworn in. he's promised to intensify intensify the fight against boko haram. >>reporter: it means business. started by clearing out the protesters. now they're clearing out the streets. the orders are no one is allowed to be on the streets and protest. everyone must go to their homes. people say the police presence is square scaring them. they say they're being systemically targeted by the police especially at night. >> i was walking home. the police stopped me. i was scared and tried to run away. then they shot me. >>reporter: a lot of people say

they're scared and all they can do is just watch and look at the soldiers and police on their streets. the police deny a targeting opposition members. they say they're only trying to maintain law and order. >> we have some security progress in the capital city where the demonstrat demonstrate demonstrators are attacking police members. >>reporter: there's a meeting on sunday to try to end the crisis. people are asking -- the last time the president went to such a meeting, there was an attempted coup. some are saying if he doesn't go there's concerns about losing grip on power here. in syria, barrel bombing has killed 40 people.

medical sources say the attack hit the crowded market in a town under isil control. meanwhile in aleppo more than 20 civilians have been killed by rejudge barrel bomb attacks. to yemen now where the saudi-led coalition continues to bomb houthis across the country. the strike set off secondary explosions and fires. meanwhile, efforts to end the conflict continue. the u.s. special envoy to yemen has arrived in the capital. the first round of peace talks were due to be held in geneva. he's carried out the longest hunger strike in an egyptian prison is headed back home to the u.s. he was sentenced to life in prison last month after not eating for over 400 days but the

u.s. has persuaded egypt to deport him. he was arrested in 2013 when police came looking for his father a member of the muslim brotherhood. fifa's president has accused the european football body of running a hate campaign against him. blatter was re-elected as president of fifa yesterday despite a corruption scandal surrounding the organization. >> nobody is perfect. we'll do a good job together i'm sure. so i thank you so much for the trust and confidence trust and confidence together we go. let's go fifa. let's go fifa. thank you. thank you so much. thank you. [applause] we are live from fifa headquarters in zurich. i understand he's maintaining

that message on swiss television today. >>reporter: he's not a man who hides what he thinks or dresses up what he wants to say. he said this is a hate campaign. basically he's saying european football officials are out to get him. that the u.s. authorities or the fbi are running a conspiracy against him. he said he was shocked by this investigation. once again, he questioned the timing of it two days before he was facing re-election when he was politically at his most vulnerable. he also spoke about loretta lynch. she's the u.s. attorney general and the woman we've seen talking about this corruption investigation. she's the one that has said corruption is rampant in international football. he said as the president of fifa i would not say that about any other organization if i did not know what i was talking about so she should probably extend the same courtesy when it comes to me and fifa and international football. we're expecting to hear from him

directly in around 15 minutes. right now he's wrapping up an extraordinary meeting with the executive committee. this is a meeting that was something that was already planned. it was in the diary they were going to talk about the division of world cup places. of course they'll have talked about the allegations and his re-election. when he comes out, he'll walk into this building and he'll be questioned by dozens maybe a hundred of the world's media. they're all here from tv radio, newspapers, all over the world. and bear in mind he's a man who's not got too much time for reporters at the best of times but this is his chance not as a president hoping to be re-elected, this is his chance as a newly-installed president to say i'm going to sort this mess out. and with him, you can be sure he'll not hide what he really feels. >> all right. thank you so much.

still to come an education crisis in kenya. find out why teachers are leaving the country's east in droves. plus, a unique way of living that brings young and old together in the netherlands.

welcome back. let's recap our headlines here on al jazeera now. italy's navy has helped rescue more than 4,000 migrants trying to cross the mediterranean in just the past 24 hours. they were found on 22 different boats.

17 dead bodies were among the living. . thousands of people in south sudan have been displaced by violence in unity state. they've escaped fighting between government forces and rebels. fifa president has accused the european football body ue for running a hate campaign against him. he was re-elected as president of fifa on friday despite a corruption scandal surrounding the organization. in kenya, the country's northeast has been hardest hit by the ongoing threat from al shabaab. now the government says the education sector sector is in crisis. more than 100 schools have been forced to close and there's also a mass exodus of teachers. >>reporter: until recently this was some of the safest streets in kenya but it's become the scene of frequent al shabaab

attacks. >> business is bad. this town is empty. people have fled the killing and the curfew imposed by the government. >>reporter: no part of the country is poorer than the northeast region which is at the border of kenya and somolia. it's here that al shabaab has had almost free reign in recent years. security personnel guard some schools that remain open. but this has not been enough to reassure teachers from other parts of the country. hundreds have left vowing never to return. >> those who are studying for examinations -- because time is running out. and the clock is ticking. >>reporter: edwin has taught here for the last 27 years. he's one of a handful of teacher who is have decided to stay. >> i don't feel threatened because i know everybody around but my colleagues have only been

here two years. don't know anything about the culture in somolia so when they see someone from somolia, they think he's a terrorist. >>reporter: teachers have been forced to recruit some of the best performing students who graduated last year. they say it's the only way to recruit teachers and avoid closing the schools. security at sea is the main topic for 26 countries meeting in singapore. several governments are claiming rights to different parts of the south china sea. the u.s. defense secretary ashton carter criticized china for the way it's marking out its territory. >> turning an underwater rock into an air field does not permit restrictions on international air or maritime transit. finally, with its actions in the

south china sea, china is out of step with both the international rules and norms that underscore the asia-pacific security architecture and the regional consensus that favors diplomacy and opposes coercion. >> here's more now from sing pour. >>reporter: the region's security summit is underway in singapore and as soon as it's started, the clash of perspectives on the agenda has already been put on the table. maritime disputes over the south china sea over the united states slamming china's activities in disputed waters. now, a chinese military delegate who heard the u.s. defense secretary's speech responded to him in an open forum and basically said he was making groundless accusations and that chinese activity was legitimate justified, and reasonable. now, the disputes are going to

be the most important issue here. no resolutions are expected to come out of the two-day dialogue over the weekend. however, what this does is give all parties involved a comfortable space to have constructive talks on the issues that they can then take back to their governments and policymakers in the hopes of finding peaceful resolutions to whatever security matters might be concerning the states in the region the u.s. removing cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism has been met with mixed reactions in havana. nick clark reports from the cuban capital. >> for those who would export terrorism, especially cuba and libya, we'll act with firmness. >>reporter: and with those words, ronald reagan consigned

cuba to 20 years on the state-sponsored terrorism list. to this day the oldest cars still cruise the streets and the old ways remain. but cuba is on the cusp of change and coming off the list is an important milestone. some cubans we spoke to were skeptical about the difference this would make to their lives. but some were positive. >> cuba does not support terrorism. everyone knows that. this was always a political move. >>reporter: the move does more than just open the door to the united states. >> the relation of cuba with the rest of the world. now it's very difficult for any country to have a good relations

with a country that the united states says that is a terrorist country. >>reporter: shortly after the revolution, the u.s. shut down its embassy in havana. now the next step is for it to reopen 53 years after the freeze. there's even a suggestion there could be announcement next week. and this is the u.s. embassy shut down in 1961. now home to the so-called u.s. interest section. now it seems those days are behind the two countries as they prepare to reengage. nick clark, al jazeera. havana cuba. in the u.s. more than 200 people gathered outside a mosque

in arizona saying it's a demonstration against islam. some wore military fatigues carrying semiautomatic weapons. there was a heavy police presence there. >> the founder of online illegal drug marketplace the silk road has been sentenced to life in prison in the united states. prosecutors say the website allowed the anonymous trade of $200 million worth of drugs. here's more from new york. >>reporter: in an emotional sentencing hearing, ross albricht said he started silk road to empower people to mace choices but acknowledged he made serious mistakes and apologized to the families of six people who died from drug overdoses linked to silk road. the father of one victim told the judge that silk road provided the deadly combination for his son who he believed would never have bought heroin

from a street dealer. a jury found him guilty on every charge including money laundering running a criminal enterprise and drug trafficking. to deter others on leading a life of crime on the dark net but his lawyer and parents said the judge went too far. >> every single drug case has the same elements here yet he was saddled with all of it. and that's unfair unjust and unreasonable. >> ross was crying during his statements. you know he's looking at his life being destroyed and, of course, but he's also was very moved by those stories as we all were. >>reporter: a documentary about him called deep web premiered in the united states on the same day as his sentencing. he has developed a cult

following among those who believe the government has overreached in its war on drug >> it's not a deterrent. the silk road was shut down in 2013. there have been hundreds of copy cat services. the technology is in its infancy so the dark net is in its infancy. it's not going to go away. >>reporter: the judge said she struggled with the sentence but in the end accused ross of flouting the law and he should know better. the german chancellor says she'll work with the british prime minister on reforming the european union and stressed her desire to keep the u.k. within the bloc. david camron has been touring european capitals and wants changes made by the time the u.k. holds a referendum on eu

membership. >> there are other areas that we'll have to negotiate over longer. there are areas germany is concerned about. there may be cases where it's also in germany's interest to make some specific changes. the cost of elderly care is rising in europe and at the same time, young people are finding it difficult to get onto the property ladder prompting some to tackle both challenges at the same time. the second of our four part series here's one part of the netherlands with a unique solution. >>reporter: home isn't a messy shared apartment or a college dorm room for this university student. he lives in an old peoples' home. he's one of six students living

rent free at this center. in return the students spend time with the elderly. >> sometimes before august when i move here i get a little bit of annoying by people elderly people. when i'm here i think about the time differently. so 15 minutes for me is not so many but for some people in the house here some elderly retirement people it's 15 minutes of their lives and you can see the smile on their faces. >>reporter: the old people and the students have an easy relationship. they tease each other, the warmth is evident. >> we get along very well. they're just like our sons. it's like they're part of the group. >> the center has won prizes for the student residents concept. it's the brain child of -- who came up with the idea when faced

with the challenge of dwindling funds. she's been surprised by its success. >> when they have a bad knee and it hurts when you're 96 the doctor can't fix it anymore but the youngsters telling their story about a girlfriend or music or parties they go to they bring in life they bring in stories, they bring in joy, they bring in a smile. >>reporter: like all great ideas, it's so simple. you can't imagine how it wasn't thought of before. the concept looks back to decades earlier in europe when the elderly lived at home with multiple generations. but the scheme has been updated for modern economics and more importantly, it brings some benefits that can't be measured. the students learn caring skills and for the elderly, the last years of life are much more enjoyable. and in the third part of

that series about an aging world, we report from kabul in the role elders in afghanistan are playing in keeping society together. that's on al jazeera on sunday. and you can follow all those other stories we've been telling you about on aljazeera.com. on aljazeera.com. president barak obama wants the u.s. to join a trade free zone, and the range of countries and, economies, large and small would represent more than a third of the entire planet's trade and, it's just about the only thing that he has supported that republicans have backed him on, and opposition is coming