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senators are proposing a ban on arms sales to saudi arabia over the murder of journalists. on the war in yemen the bill has support from members of both the democratic and republican parties saudi arabia meanwhile is seeking the death penalty for five suspects charged with the murder of. riyadh insists the crown prince mohammed bin said a man had no knowledge of the operation ankara says the announcement falls short of expectations and once the suspects to be extradited and tried in turkey the british prime minister of tourism is standing firm as politicians from her conservative party launch a bid to remove her from office it's in response to her draft divorce deal to withdraw the united kingdom from the european union that hardliners say the deal makes too many concessions to the e.u. my approach throughout has been to put the national interest. not a partisan interest and certainly no political interest. i do not judge

harshly those of my colleagues who seek to do the same but you reach a different conclusion they must do what they believe to be right just as i do i'm sorry that they've chosen to leave the government and i thank them for their service but i believe with every fiber of my being that the course i have set out is the right one for our country and all our people i believe that this is a deal which does deliver that which is in the national interest and am i going to see this through yes almost forty years after the fall of the career rouge regime in cambodia to affect surviving leaders are facing genocide charges a united nations backed war crimes tribunal is this a hand down its judgment on no one shia and the former head of state to sumpin those are the headlines on al-jazeera we'll have more news for you that's coming up right after people and power that's next they with us.

al jazeera says it's just swell and. it's. 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 a resting shooting at those it's supposed to be helping weeping to sea to find 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 me 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.

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 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. at the family living out that what you have to share is tough but i assure you i will do fisherman it's now up to the house so often that the patient being just. walk out

followed go by and go back and yet they are so often that they rejected a. wireless. out. so up. there in the kind of vision 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 smuggling . lamb and the full month of the battle called the libya with only a thin it didn't have to swallow a lamb i'm not going to feel i'm a scheme i'm an. in-joke month i'm a mother the now would lose knows how to sew a home or a hospital for food be dished out a little enjoyment out of most of the miracles listen we've got the savannah model of the home so that you knew. who know to me parliament lingo most of them stomach

. after the revolution and twenty eleven libya became a favorite departure point for europe and migrants the number 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 oh we told you good lord. it was devoted all these are to new ones your conclusions will be you don't know you know i'm so worried about you you have no global chamber these people are stupid no. so did you our adoption includes two twenty two living tribute to our turner children to fall to most twenty fifteen sixteen no we just

needed to room it takes time money i'm in the program 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 young friend a little boy while leave you think about it was. you know there's a lot for. automated and that was before the media that was cruel but i think that it was but i don't. really see it going to us i mean look at the middle east. your ship was terrible one incident happened on the seventh of august twenty seventh team a libyan coast guard patrol boat number six five four fired warning shots at the goal 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 has zero refused to continue renting it to correct in the open arms the n.g.o.s had to find a new vessel to continue its operations.

so you. got. that month ogust twenty seven team it's all n.g.o.s to sign a code of conduct which puts 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

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 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 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 engine of vessels in the mediterranean at the time the disaster might have been averted the so-called sunni society in europe decided 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 there. 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

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 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 shuls 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. connel masood. is from the coast guard 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. a miniature via. how to live well. of the a billion barrels in libya which is a. move just saw with an event then a command to fire my job will be mirrored. in the mock up of the the. how. after the twenty eleven revolution in libya ninety percent of its navy was destroyed in twenty thirteen the authorities in tripoli sent the few boats they had left to italy for a pattern 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. were onboard 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 sea first they quickly began a rescue mission but then the libyan controller arrived on a mattress got out of. the people can pick up a maverick whatever kind of

a bit. difficult. to record because i don't have. i don't know. if they. come from ok let me go back or. wrong right now is 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 don't mean 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

who would return them to tripoli. for the. beautiful. people of the. wall 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. missions other move them because of sort of canonical hundreds of i would love a. good look and for who are going to. have so. in the bush the will of god i'm

a little called the others. so you should the houses so a. man has to so he can feed what had made him yes maybe a little me of a man come up about to 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.

but when they arrived the ship was seized and the captain and the head of mission accused 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. and. the commander of the coast guard patrol asked the n.g.o.'s vessel to withdraw to five nautical miles from the target when the n.g.o.s who did not follow the orders of the country react it. quiet.