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out. migration and how to best respond to it and control it has become one of europe's most complex and hotly debated problems. the arguments have been loudest around the central mediterranean and the dangerous which is between libya and its which many thousands of migrants have crossed with the help of people smuggling as. for the last five years e.u. navies have maintained a presence to discard people from making the journey the libyan coast guard has also stepped up patrols with the backing of an anti migrant government and it's
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only. that become more active in trying to stem the human tight both the e.u. and libyan authorities insist their actions save lives but the methods focus mainly on deterrence are odds with those of other groups operating in the area since two thousand and thirteen n.g.o.s whose only aim is to aid migrants in peril and see. the differences came to a head this year when the libyan coast guard clashed with rescue vessels from two banjos proactiv open arms and s.o.s. meditate i met. with access to both sides with been to examine the implications for humanitarian operations in the area. and. to look through. the work of our living out that what you have to share is tough but i assure you. in
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fifteen minutes i walked through the house so often that if you believe you just. walk out follow go by go back and yet they are so often that they rejected. it was. so up. there in the kernel bush has been a coast guard since two thousand and twelve he trained in russia and then had a successful career in the libyan navy now he is greatly feared by people smugglers . lamb and the full month of the battle called the libyan lebanese. it didn't have to so hello i'm not going to feel i must be you know i'm an. illusion of a month i'm a mother the and i would lose my house to sew a home or a hospital for food be dished out a little enjoyment out of most of the middle class a loop i didn't sleep on
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a model at the time so that you knew. who know to me parliament lingo most of them stomach. after the revolution and twenty eleven libya became a favored departure point for europe and migrants the numbers steadily rose until reaching a peak tween twenty fifteen and twenty seven this year although many thousands have attempted the crossing the human tide between libya and italy has begun to recede. we tracked down a middleman to have to agree to speak to us anonymously he told us the decline is because the journey has become much more difficult. we do we disarm on its own to detroit. because these are two new ones you conclusions don't you don't know you know i'm so worried about you you have no. job i just requested no. so do you our adoption includes two twenty eleven tribute to work toward children to
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refer to most twenty fifteen sixteen no we just related to the group in egypt strong money a million for about six months. we met up with oscar camps the founder of a spanish angio proactive open arms he has had direct experience of the libyan coast guard's increasingly hostile approach to n.g.o.s gratian says he says the relationship began to turn sour and twenty seventeen. feet of my you. a little boy why leave you. out it was. you know there's love for. what i made and that was before the media that was cruel but i think that it was i don't. really see as good a yes i did look bad at the middle east farce your ship was terrible one incident happened on the seventh of august twenty seventh seen
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a libyan coast guard patrol boat number six five four fired warning shots at the go for a rescue vessel being leased by product of the open arms the ngo told us that the ship was at least twelve nautical miles away from the libyan coast and outside its territorial waters. but. nevertheless ten days later there was another incident involving the same vessel. the gulf azura was again stopped at sea and this time it would have to accompany the libyan coast guard into tripoli harbor on suspicion of operating within libyan territory. as a result of this much publicized incident the owner of the gulf has zero refused to continue renting it to correct in the open arms the ngo had to find a new vessel to continue its operations.
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and i was. here. that month ogust twenty seven team. all n.g.o.s to sign a code of conduct which put strict limits on their ability to carry out rescue missions it had a significant effect by the beginning of twenty eighteen only four n.g.o.s were left operating vessels in the mediterranean. italy's determination to limit the activities of n.g.o.s is based on the belief that their presence encourages migrants to make journeys they would otherwise avoid even in the words of at least
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controversial new interior minister. that they act as a taxi service matters came to a head in june twenty eighth when its really refused to let the aquarius a rescue ship carrying over six hundred migrants disembark them and italian boats. also refused to accept them and became. eventually the migrants in spain this left the libyan coast guard as the only rescue option in the area which they welcomed nevertheless. but journalists fabrizio gatti says relying only on naval and coast guard vessels
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will not solve the problem he has followed this issue since investigating an infamous tragedy in twenty thirteen when around two hundred seventy migrants died lampedusa island on that occasion and italian navy ship kept out of rescue efforts until it was too late had there been engineer vessels in the mediterranean at the time the disaster might have been averted the so-called sunni society in europe decide that they had to do something against this massacre and that is the reason why before going to version the site to go at sea to rescue people and to do what's. obliged to do and what the government european rich government were not doing any more so the pull factor exist because the presence of ships of navy ships at sea made more people. feeling
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safe and most people tried to cross the sea but is the result of the fact that european government refused to go to the roots of migration now the journey for those who do make the trip is becoming even more perilous according to the international organization of migration september twenty eighth had the highest rate of dead or missing at sea since twenty sixteen n.g.o.s say that this is because they are now being discouraged from operating in the area a migrant vessel leaving from libyan shoeless today has little chance of being rescued if it gets into difficulties. from the libyan side the military coastguard say that they are doing their maximum to cooperate with europe and the search and rescue operations but they insist that having n.g.o.s vessels operating off that coast restricts their ability to properly do their jobs including targeting migrant traffickers. colonel masood. is from the coast guard
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operation center in tripoli where incoming distress calls a handled he told us of his unit's involvement in operation sophia a joint project with the e.u. to identify and capture vessels being used by migrant smugglers disrupting their business model. via. how to live well. of the a billion barrels in the media which is a. movie i just saw with the you have a command. to fire will be mirrored. in the the. how . after the twenty eleven revolution in libya ninety percent of its navy was destroyed and twenty thirteen the authorities in tripoli sent the few boats they
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had left to italy for a pass because of continued instability in libya the vessels went returned until march twenty seventeen the full patrol boats the coast guard and now using for rescue operations. with the return of its patrol boats the libyan coast guards became more involved in rescue operations but this also brought them into confrontation with the ngos one of the most recent clashes came in march twenty thousand and valving a vessel operated by proactive openoffice a team of journalists from account plan you speak to were on board at the time the incident began when the maritime rescue coordination center in rome passed on the location of the sinking vessel to both the libyans and the spanish and geo local command of the operation was given to the coast guards but fast inflatable rubber boats from the open arms got to the sea first they quickly began a rescue mission but then the libyan patrol arrived on
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a mattress got out of. the. can pick up a maverick i've got a bit. difficult. to predict because i don't have. i don't know. if they. come from they let me go back or. wrong right now is going to fight but they don't want to talk with you know not because there's one of us there's a lot of us. there is. a good. my god my we're just coming to me. but when the open arms boats began to comply the rest of the migrants in the sinking dinghy
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started jumping into the water to avoid being rescued by the libyan coast guards who would return them to tripoli. she. was you. wish we showed the footage and asked him about the death threats issued by one of the boats under his command. so how can a lot of. mush another move the cause of so the canonical hundreds of i would love a. good look and for who are going to. have so. zimm get in the brush one of them
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a little and called the other. so you should then mohammad how to sew a. manhunter so he can feed what had made him yet livia look let me buy them a ham to muck about the go hole is a sort of war took me a while couple of the island was really me. being one thought a little clown or i would have a heart. later colonel bush told us he regretted that threats had been made against the open arms vessel but said that the n.g.o.s do not have access to the intelligence information available to the coast guard he said the sinking dinghy contained people the authorities needed to question. the incident had serious consequences for the ngo the coast guard left the scene and open arms were allowed to take all the migrants on board the authorities in rome then directed the vessel to appeal to sicily where the rescued people could be disembarked.
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but when they arrived the ship was seized and the captain and the head of mission accused of people trafficking risking a fifteen year prison term. in late september twenty eight hundred we witnessed another confrontation this time from the libyan perspective we were with the coast guard patrol when a migrant boat in jeopardy was found by queries to cartney one of the few n.g.o.s vessels operating in the central mediterranean. the commander of the coast guard patrol asked the n.g.o.s all to withdraw to five nautical miles from the target when the engine of vessel did not follow the orders the country reacted. quite where they're. headed toward a. visit today. yes over the course of. who
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is it that. people get out. of the level of. oh if you repeated. this they did what we'd love to be your. right side. of it so i hear you think this is tricky. if you're unsure if you think that you're getting. the money been had the. vision the bottom what. the man had the. knock on beneath the idol. but obtuse. and what i'm putting my theory to no purpose
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. to the cops to someone bitten can. be doing with the need when i can count those on with me in the. least that's not enough. like this. but nothing but the money i think the city i'm better off of so that's what they are doing. while the people if he knew what that was followed up by you know of a number. so you look. as if you know what the decision or are there some of them in the military at the same time so good at. it as. oh my gosh
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a little cool you don't think we have. just a thought i'd like to have one and then i'm going to the front. i'm going to do you mean you know my. age. you. know that lucifer you don't think that a king of the world i think of something like that that generally i think the level of the body you know you have violated with that company facility of. the month of may is it. matches the suffering that quietus them and then he had. to have them. in with government that would have to so i had.
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to take he had saved them from so much in the mess what about you know so i don't know why the selected such as jafo good to have. done what he had done the couple that had the pleasure he would share his good because he. can't be unkind it's the benefit of how. you know if them and cut them open houses so i had an even with those two or three months i would have been. out of a surfeit. out of i'm in the second that quietus just sat down yourself black and white at the sun west of our home town who would soon be a part of i would have to you live at the and how to so often. you say not till the quietest to be enough of a move to the. the
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libyan coast guards all seaquarium to to leave the area but then another rubber boat with around one hundred migrants on board was spotted by an italian military plane it was sinking the plane dropped inflatable life rafts to keep the boat to float and pass the location to both the libyans and aquarius to. this time the coast guard's called the fust the migrants would be taken back to libya. and you say that returning migrants to libya exposes them to huge risks of rape torture and slavery are anonymous people trapped agreed. but is not possible for me to work for. a while for. money in the recent. amenable to come to his reform and. when we heard of them. are you doing.
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anything. because. i knew. if we didn't do you might be in steve. you might be in prison due to culture. you were going to suddenly. on things like do. what you want transferred to a small group a long history beautiful bunch of. young americans deduct forced against lived our forefathers and today want to go to your denials are you choose not to be gone the coastguards told us that they had been surprised to find many libyans aboard the boat they rescued in late september but perhaps they should not have been an outbreak of fighting that month between rival militias in tripoli and the country was becoming ever more dangerous with it also becoming more difficult to make the
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crossing to europe people were trying to get out while they still had a chance. of those the coast guards took back to libya some would soon be doing whatever they could to raise money for another attempt. on the one who was she didn't know. from the fosters being killed his frustration. only when he was. forced to share his you first just means to make money to cross you want to. see should you grow. to be almost peace through the solution. it was of god you don't want to shock people decide that you need. a many are. money or blood money or photo or from those who use. those beautiful this is a false teacher. european governments and the libyan authorities that concentrate
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first and foremost on the terrorists and limiting migrant numbers may have different priorities from n.g.o.s that have purely humanitarian aid but also say they want to save lives and so it is to. but to fully understand why they cannot work more effectively together. for as long as there is more in poverty and africa and the middle east to free from migrants will try to reach europe from across the mediterranean. if something goes wrong and their lives are at risk and dangerous seas then surely someone should always be there to help them but right now all the participants in this complex narrative seem to be diverging rather than coming together. we're always thought i mean you've got to focus on one pushing one on the horn or a maybe a woman so often the focus will shift. she thought was a huge shock to me that i can assure that i'm going to the militia with it it will
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