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on al-jazeera coming up next year its people and power. across china millions of cameras are watching citizens every move and scoring their behavior one east investigates china's surveillance crackdown. on al jazeera. thousands of migrants have died trying to reach europe by crossing the mediterranean from libya many thousands more have been saved from certain death by n.g.o.s search and rescue vessels so why do you countries want to stop those ships from giving aid to troops in maritime law when the alternative is a libyan coast guard with a record of arresting shooting at those it's supposed to be hoping we've been to see to find out.
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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 smugness. 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 only. that become more active in trying to stem the human tight both the e.u.
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and libyan authorities insist their actions save lives but the methods focus mainly on deterrents are odds with those of other groups operating in the area since two thousand. and geos whose only aim is to 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 proactive 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. just let's look. to the family living out that what you have to share is tough but i assure you i will do
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fifteen minutes of the house go up to that location being just. walk out followed go by i go back and yet they are so often that a fair share of who was here out. 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 libya lebanon it didn't it didn't have to so or hello i'm not going to feel i must be he hasn't you know i'm an. enjoyable month i'm a mother how the night would knows how to sew a home or in a hospital if it didn't start until in june i got to most of the miracles listen we've got the savannah model adopt them so that you knew. who you know to make
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parliament linge almost illegal arms them up. after the revolution and twenty eleven libya became a favored departure point for europe and migrants the number steadily rose until reaching a peak between 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. he 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 oh you don't you get lower. because devoted all these are to new ones you conclusions don't you know you know i'm so worried about you you have no go go go by these people are stupid now. so do you are adoption concludes two twenty two very clear to work toward children to afford to lose twenty fifteen sixteen no we just renewed
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. we take strong money a million for about six months. we met up with oscar camp's the founder of a spanish angio proactive open arms he has had direct experience of the libyan coast guards increasingly hostile approach to n.g.o.s gratian says he says the relationship began to turn sour and twenty seventeen. feet of my entry into a little while leave you think about it was. in a rush for. before the meeting that was terrible but i think that it was but i don't. really see it going a yes i did look back at the middle east. your ship was terrible one incident happened on the seventh of august twenty seventh seen a libyan coast guard patrol boat number six five four fired warning shots at the go
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for a rescue vessel being leased by product of 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 ordered 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 zero zero refused to continue renting it to a proactive open arms the n.g.o.s had to find a new vessel to continue its operations.
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and i was. here. for. that month ogust twenty seven team italy asked 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 controversial new interior minister. that they act as
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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 the. eventually the migrants were offloaded in spain this left the libyan coast as almost the only rescue option in the area which they welcomed nevertheless. but journalist fabrizio gatty says relying only on naval and coast guard vessels will not solve the problem he has followed this issue since investigating an
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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 civil society in europe decide that they had to do something against this massacre and that is the reason why before organisation decides to go at sea to rescue people and to do what's. to do and what's 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 safe and most people tried to cross the sea but is the result of the fact that
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european government refused to go to the route 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 and you say that this is because they are now being discouraged from operating in the area a migrant vessel leaving from libyan shells 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 the coast restricts their ability to properly do their jobs including targeting migrant traffickers. connel masood. is from the coast guard operation
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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 thus disrupting their business model. via. the of the i've been back to the media which is a. movie i just saw with an event then a command to fire my job will be mirrored. in the film on. 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 had left to italy for a path because of continued instability in libya the vessels went returned until
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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 the capital a new spain. 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 open arms got to the scene first they quickly began a rescue mission but then the libyan patroon arrived on a mattress got out of. the difficult to pick up a maverick kind of
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a. difficult. one because i don't have. i don't have a. problem ok let me go back. from right now he's going to fight but they don't want to talk with you not because there's a lot 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 started jumping into the water to avoid being rescued by the libyan coast guards
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who would return them to tripoli. you. see. wat 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. machines are going to move them because of sort of canonical hundreds of i a good mother earth. would do that and. i was so. zimm in the bush the will of god i'm
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a little called that there's. something you should than muhammad how to sew a. man has to so what he isn't feed what had made him yet livia look let me go by the mahanta my one of the go hole is a sort of thought that we will cover that 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 a 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 or to withdraw to five nautical miles from the target when the engine of vessel did not follow the orders the country reacted. quite. a bit to. visit thirty. five of the four walls of. oh yes it would be good to put it out.
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none of the. least that's not enough. like this. but nothing but the money i think the city i'm better off of so that when they had to. walk away from the you know what that followed up you know all of a you know. i was just so you look. at it you know all but one thing he says you know i think that some of them are going to have the same time so i did. get through that. oh my gosh a little cold you don't think we have. just
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a thought i'd like to have my name and i'm going to the sun and. i'm going to do you. think. you. will doubtless suffer the same thing that a king of the world i think of something i did that yesterday i think the level of their body could have what they did with that company mislead. them off of all the years it. masters the stuff in the quietest them and then they had. to have them. in with a couple more that would have so had. it that he had saved them from so much in the
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net what about the lost souls. why the selected such as jafo did to have. done what he had done the father of the head that was that he pushes them because he. can be and can it's the benefit of how. you know if them and call them up of a house or so i had and even with those two or three months would have been nothing that i love a surfeit. out of i may have been something that quietus meant to sat up done yourself off and why that the sun would wash out of our home town who would soon be have a live at the and how to sell off and. you shake it off till that is quite astute enough and move to the.
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the 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 trust a great. what is not possible for me to work for. a while for. money in the recent. i'm unable to come to his reform i'm. always going to room.
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to. see a good twenty. because i need my money. i need money. but i do. if we didn't do you might be in steve. you might be in prison due to cultural. i'm constructing. what you sumatran to a small group a long history beautifully but all. the americans did got forced against lived our forefathers and today we want to. 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 crossing to europe people were trying to get out while they still had
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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 of what he was to do you know. from the fosters faintness frustration. only when he was. sports. is the fastest means to make money to cross you want you. should do the work. you do almost destroyed the solution. it was of god you don't want to shock people decide that you know. how many are. money your money from the photo or from those who use. to go through. a false teacher of. european governments and the libyan authorities that concentrate first and foremost on the terrorists and limiting migrant numbers may have
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different priorities from n.g.o.s that have purely humanitarian aid but also say they want to save lives and so it is did. but to fully understand why they cannot work more effectively together. for as long as there is war and 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. what we thought i mean you've got to focus on pushing on the horn i mean maybe a woman so often the folk. she thought was so used to me that i can assure that i'm going to the militia with that i will not stop it i'm female and i mean you don't want to double up for them and get on with me when i did you know that your
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