one will come here often here. every man or women or child around here is coughing has a problem of coughing as appropriate to skin some of them up only to. the man who. says. he them i want to test in your question i want to work with allied. question that needs. over one and a half 1000000 south africans live in townships like this. at the foot of mine tailings mountains. that the south of it gets into off one week this past week think this but so that is why so many people are here this is the silent heat. this dust doesn't just make people vomit or cough several children in the neighborhood suffer from severe neurological disorders. or who you know for years you know it.

you know i live it. is 6 years old. she suffers from a paralyzing brain disease are you doing well lately however her family saying the tondo was born perfectly healthy the problems arose soon after the roof of the house was under repair at the time and the dust from the mine cotton specially this dust you pull your kid in the piece. before you sleep you must face. that and everyone kids oh yeah a few weeks later the 1st signs of illness appeared in the years since the tundra has been unable to. communicate with her. when she she was to be changed. yeah and then she she kicks it is ok arrow maybe when she wants you

to go i said richie she kisses him and she screams no. do you know she has to go say that you want to. poverty has always prevented the family from being able to prove a link between attenders illness and the mind dust but they are no doubt if there are other peers like under her own i was the same symptoms same health issues and i do know in day there's a pinch out there it's going to go down the only problem is that they are ashamed of their kids all and here they don't want anybody knowing our kids in this situation there's 2 of them opus tells us in the industry more than 3 of them or many of them you know personally personally strange is one thing they paid me to do you only find them here this is actually centered it in my angel tonight today taking them to do today they don't think so but if you go of any distance from here

in leave you me never find this key. to find out whether the just from the nearby mine tailings really is the cause of peace illnesses. must climb snake park hill. it has been abandoned ever since the mine was closed. access is supposedly forbidden there's nobody guarding the site which extends over 4 square kilometers while i'm out of the all succeeding from a soldier's each. day so then do me a turn the dishes. will sue me to. take 500 grams of the sun. the dust that's growing over the village but no. on

the way down he finds a green lake at the foot of the slope. it's used mostly to area gate adjacent farmland or residents also give it to their livestock sometimes their children even bay the net of this will. ok if i can put in will do. for the. mean you have put it. frankly linda is professor of environmental studies at northwestern university in south africa getting to me. linda is also an expert on mining illusion the government the world health organization writes with his help has developed a scientific her took a test kit for different wood to pollutants yes so i'm at the bottom of the mine turnings there's some water all around i was wondering which parameters fish do you think i should analyze 1st in the water if you want to.

try to. elevate. your i. thought it would seem recently gone by. so. missouri. if it comes. to getting arsenic which is a medical. exam. room you can. see. that if you put it back.

just so you know it was all. says all the. the maximum and they were going to continue to pose for them. it's impossible to analyze everything there and then so must takes another sample to check for more pollutants later. but the tests have already thrown out some serious questions. after some convincing one of the country's top 3 gold produces agrees to a meeting. the 1st of the. goldfields 8750 kilograms of gold was mined at the site last year. the team can't go underground into the mine itself and the company will only allow them to film surface operations we get all from from the stuff. but at night you'll see it on the front but there's numbers. coming. out including we are doing

a plus minus $5500.00 times. a day i mean we have reaching out on 3 on a tons per hour it depends on a lot of viability and how many hours of oil is there. so there or that you see on the still fall is what i mean at the plus minus 5 days but done that's always great currently. only 5 grams of gold for each ton of coal mind that's a remarkable ratio. and it means a huge amount of residue to be disposed of. the precious metal is separated from the rest of the and then heated in these killings. nothing to make goes a little here we used to i i said oh no sorry not that your pretty major like to make those you know rising quarter macguineas instead he got. so

that c.p.r. so you add all of these together with these with the ball. the last stage is the cost at $800.00 degrees celsius for 40 minutes. the end result gold bars. at 82 percent purity each weighs in at just over 16 kilograms and is worth around $538000.00. goldfields makes 5 of these gold balls a week. producing 16200 tons of residue you equivalent to the weight of 2 of france's eiffel towers. the company has wasted human lives here on this he said constantly 24 hours a day by these pipelines connected to the factory. within a few years this hail will become another steep mountain of debris reaching up to

70 meters high. andrew passons and stephen joseph are its grand architects. what's in there. what is it's. well it's it's what's left over from the from the extraction process it's the rock that. held the gold. and what's left behind off the gold has been removed so it's silica and other materials it's the sand. and other metals but many silica is there any other metals for example there. could be trace amounts but but very small concentrations. and some of the gold also there is uranium sauced deep has very little you're on your minutes or so. there's very little uranium. in the us in the stomach you. will get really.

knocked off and i think the numbers around about 40 to 50 grams a ton 40 to 50 annually south african mining companies extract 10 times more uranium than gold the uranium is then abandoned leaving behind radioactive mined tailings so the kind of control you do the samples you are talking about is on daily basis the gold from both of them. but the radiation 50 would probably be. ok or. over time the waste produced by south africa's gold industry has formed increasingly large radioactive heaps dumped outside in the open at. according to official estimates the mine tailings surrounding johannesburg now contain an astounding 600000 tons of uranium the quantities are so high that in reality the mountains of waste should be classified by the state as nuclear installations they

should be confined and secured and kept at least 500 meters away from any residential area but those rules are routinely ignored as here into the shaft a township with over 20000 residents. of. oil bruno sherry ron is an engineer in nuclear physics and an expert from korea ratched a research association in radioactivity when i was i was government on the. that commercial school shaken too much you must. feel there will be a little bit. also paul nordstrom's on the wall the office will be moved you want a focal to do so this you know i make sure the group on television come in to detect the presence i know my point of view to see not just their young men came up

it even to be able. to do is it true that you're an evil doer risk. deployed in your she thought of us here your mom and me. in large want you to join in our community i don't is wrong but you don't want to do this when there's poetry to building you. because you. and you cannot sell gounder. on a cell with a country let's hear from the us for. just one. and only because you want to force the daughter to try. and they said. do you define us. do you think it was only one tree for. her and.

how did we did to close on a letter that. master has discovered that radioactivity levels here are close to those in the exclusion zone around the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster he follows the grazing animals to eric from gomez nearby farm. era keeps around 40 goats and a few sheep none of which seem to live very long linen above all if they last week last week by 01 months 11 months of all yeah yeah and do you do you have a lot of baby though most because of your. writings show then said as for success this is a. eric wants to show us the most common symptom amongst his flock. they want to. know as well and. know what you must.

but this is the fungible one it is a. mine so. i want to learn. and i mess. so when you see these every day what do you think. was the motion and. i would tell you but it's just the bins. it seems as though eric's goats have radiation sickness but evidence is needed. we are close to the mine tailings fall and. look really sick i mean according to you do you own or do you think we should just have some bowl of the animals.

have to take samples from 2 goats intended to be used for meat consumption including one who is blind. i come up with the results of the trauma factor or the instructor thanks so you but i. must turn takes the samples to be tested at south africa's council the scientific and industrial research. fear of used the water from the sailings just across the trading. it is used as a rigorous no water jesus integration and also for almost a drink we also live in some more full samples train job is done with the store was contaminated with low made competitors and so what can you what can you look for

years almost all of it and then the man goes by did had it encoded in windows like you know you by now on the old lead you know was in the gui shop and in trucks and can basically when you. need an expert to get them in order once we get them then that's reason on our group right. as he waits for the analysis must time returns to the investigation in part 2. as the shocking results come in he shares the news with some of those affected and comes face to face with an industry insider what i found particularly scandals to take the worst possible material which is your radio grind into dust comparable to flour and make a hill out of it and put it into place where people live pity is a colossal bad idea. bogost and i just. want to one is still investigating how in legal lauder's

a plundering some of cambodia's last remaining forest marking 2 years since the start of myanmar's military campaign that's caused hundreds of thousands of revenge of muslims into exile how you look in countries and billions of you supplying arms used to be ghanem result. taken the world's worst humanitarian crisis another bid to preserve multilateralism within a group of the 7 most advanced economies will cohesion prevail with challenges that the g 7 face drawing on a decade of al-jazeera documentary to be by the visit the archives to find out how the story moved on august. the 23 unions has collected objects he finds along the coast. enough to fill his museum enough to break a guinness world record. with a story for every object has become an environmental activist and inspired artists

on the voice for the part to countless markets. marching music such as al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever. i know i'm in london with a quick look at headlines libya's navy is saying at least 150 people are missing and feared dead in a shipwreck off the coast but the un refugee agency puts that number as high as 150 people that might have been killed the wooden boat left from the town of homs east

of the capital tripoli with around 300 people on board at least 140 people have been rescued by the coast guard and sent back home. well this is yet another terrible tragedy on the mediterranean it means we've now had more than 700 deaths on the mediterranean this year if current trends for this year continue but will see us past more than 1000 deaths on the mediterranean for the 6 year in a row we now have one person dying on the mediterranean sea for every 6 people who reaches european jools. tunisia is set to hold new elections by october after the death of the country's 1st democratically elected leader the subsea head of tunisia's parliament mohamed and a cur was sworn in as interim president on thursday he would leave the country are until the elections are eventually held and a kurd takes over after 92 year old except he died in a military hospital in the capital tunis celebrations are continuing on the streets

of puerto rico's capital after its governor about to public pressure and announced his resignation has been nearly 2 weeks of mass protests calling for a card or a c.e.o. to step down demonstrations respond by the release of offensive messages sent between the assailants to advise as. the u.s. is north korea to refrain from any more provocations after a test fired 2 missiles near its eastern coast the south korean government has warned that the north could have been testing a new short range ballistic weapon the 1st time joanna's launched missiles and see the conjunctions impromptu meeting with the u.s. president donald trump last month u.s. senators have backed legislation that would block some arms sales to saudi arabia foreign relations committee voted 13 to 9 with 3 republicans joining democrats in backing the measure many voiced concern the weapons could be used in the war in yemen the legislation is expected to be opposed by president donald trump more on all those stories in the news hour do join me for that in about half an

hour from now south africa toxic city is the program that now continues. hundreds of strange mounds lie scattered around johannesburg south africa is most populous city but they aren't a natural phenomenon they are mine tailings waste heaps left over from south africa's hugely profitable gold industry. many are also said to be dangerously toxic awash with heavy metals poisons and radioactive debris. with expert help french journalist must time to do is getting that content scientifically analyzed. but one night while he waits for the results he gets

a mysterious voicemail message hello i heard your interest. money great you really are out there out in their mind well i worked at an environmental challenges for a while and i would very much appreciate you you know you're going to come around again i will work about it thank you very much. the message is from a geologist and eagle club chick after a 20 year career in the mining industry has now left it disgusted by the industry's failure to have his warnings about dealing with its waste i'll tell you what i found particularly scandals to take the worst possible material which is you radium grind it into dust comparable to flour and make a hill out of it and put it into place where people live that is a cause colossally bad idea when you when you said what would go on were you doing reports where you listened at that time i have written lots of reports i must have some sort of a record in emails probably over the over 100 so after

a while you know i was explaining look what you are proposing costs money i mean 1st of all you have to decode the contaminate. the land that is number one number 2 you can actually pump tailings all the way back where you got them from greeks than with up just a few percent of cement and you can get rid of tailings this way is a basically you put it to normal you put it back to where it was and how does that make you feel when you see it is local communities complaining about that or their health problem doesn't make you fear makes you feel like a murderer. what we have done like i said we have created an enormous and we're mental disaster if we were you know growing potatoes and we made and what a mental disaster along the side it would be different we would say ok we are feeding the nation why did gold mining industry do it in reached

a small percentage of people so we have produced gold which is the most useless thing you know whole world it feeds human greed it has no uses and yet we have made him probably one of the biggest in mental disasters in the world. so yes i do i do feel like like a murderer as eagles disturbing ricing head master heads back to sea from everett from goma. his current century possible signs of radioactive poisoning now the test results for the animals are being delivered and person by frank bender. the janice but professor of studies also one of the vote we're joined by name is frank frank and. the professor has come to see eric's livestock for himself. the test results a clear material from the nearby mine tailings has contaminated erik's foam and

uranium isn't the only problem. for example manganese would be quite significantly elevated in your and you'll want to sample over 2 cells times what would what one would find in natural water sources we do have we do have nickel being elevated to solving times of authentic this elevated 50 times as opposed to 500 ok to most let's say indicative metal for mining impact that if you're a new in those tailings that is about 10 times what you would see it in a natural environment 10 times as much so what you what you analyzed in your water you could say about 100 times more than one would find it on polluted actual pristine water source of. a farm surrounded by pollution which just. it's animals badly contaminated and.

it's disturbing news. the health of your goat yeah shows the highest levels of or songbook. all analyze that you see uranium is 60 times for elevated but all the lead is an elevated to 80 times meaning almost $100.00 times above what's normal that's the same was cobalt it's the same was also in a 3 and a 600 times one nickel but maybe you didn't know you know you're just going to say ok all right i can have all of the yes you can have it's all yours but soldiers. my dog was out for nailing in doubt right for you fly me. a farm when livestock die prematurely township's which children have neurological disorders and suffer from terrible coughing fits. but all the medical links between poor health and mining conditions so clear cut. stoff at this read open health clinic might have

some odd sense. among their patients is. it's the 3rd time this month that my youngest son has taken ill. ok. all right there is no. need to let you know it's too much of yourself it was ages of us and mike is not to let you go to the left is wonderful because of them don't know whose it was. so how are you going to yours. the baby has called brocade she's. ours and just in to

scoot both sides sometimes we see the worst so you get a child with a cough like the one that i just saw. she was having chest in drawings covered with dust because of the dust this is something that you will see on daily average yes you have been here you are number of cases not to really there should be a study like you are mentioning is that everybody who are living close to their minds if we get a lot of those patients i think definitely we have to realize that. astonishingly the south african state has never conducted a study to understand the impact of mine tailings on the population. but can. he catches up with you again. back and have township at the foot of the mine down and out collecting. ok was

go oh it's. very heavy so you have to do this every day. this is your house ok tunisia's the small child with her 4 children. is ignorant as using my life is a dad who claims he. is it a corner quinola he'll get telepictures and they were this tiny cabin provide some shelter from the rain but not from the pollution. and her children live only a few doesn't need to is from the mind where earlier i had measured radioactivity levels 28 times higher than the norm. she agrees to provide has samples to test what levels. contamination but the response to it is ok we'll see that it knew all along some pinay director of the institute for research

and scientific expertise in straw comes online. i mean you know. going there you come and then he's commotion to pull. it in yeah if you blow it was he killed you gale norton i'm just you know me. i'm still me i don't. know she. is one of the sort. 1 of i want to put in a bit will he see what i'm into there yes you could fall and then there is this food kind of move. you put in culture get you looking takes yourself. national. love that they don't pay you well. right if you turn. it all right that should be more than enough. for us and then.

the more i mean you would put it. we got to the mosque itself i mean did you like this want to. go next. or a perfect. master has also taken to has song from the time to whom we matched only a little girl suffering from year old to suit a moving look. this is one of a lot of thinking so dumb as it. was to look beautiful. ah. and then more 10 in total from other residents living near the mine tailings and sent them via express mail to professor pinay in france.

once again they'll be a few days of waiting for the results. in the meantime goes looking for gold. some of south africa's most profitable export is used in the electronics industry some of it is used for investment but most of it ends up as drury yet to the websites of the world's major luxury brands a curiously silent about the sources of the gold. on the boat you know jennifer was full of those that are. nor are any of them keen to respond to questions show that there's one of them called just how to yell matilda clearly because you don't know how good that inflow of the instance of all your business comes from them on this one of the 4 most important ships but again in a community called book review don't you know for the mother was one time when i was a kid most of the mongia federal police each of them to come from the city indeed not one jewelry brand agrees to provide details of whether gold comes from.

medicare and then you can you go bust and question the whole reason long italian brand is the 3rd largest jeweler in the world and it certainly seems to be using a lot of gold. it's time to go shopping. to greece headquarters in. johannesburg located in sun city among some of the most expensive real estate on the african continent in a luxury a shopping mall made by the company displays one of its finest pieces a gold and diamond necklace costing almost $78700.00. but again no one hand seems to know where that gold had been sourced and we wanted to know whether. here in the national gallery you knew where the gold comes from if you can talk about it it's a call to gold yeah the gold you use in your jewelry. or you know i you know

knows you better ok don't you think it is kind of a surprising that you don't know where to go comes from the caribbean so here you believe you are you know ok i've heard of the. of the consequences of my own mind in zones i forgot of for example the mind savings this is what you burn injuries better environment to learn a job or that's just sorry is a negative stuff byproduct of the 1st word where you know. it's going to hurt thank you very much no you will come. back in a world overshadowed by the waste dumps of south africa's a vast gold mining industry. people are gathering in a church hall. tiny the activist has come to syria to exist and.

their drugs on people with you. so to have all the children whose has something smashed on has taken for testing. what has spread and even the national media present. everyone wants to know what the scientists have concluded. or think you so much again for being here today i really appreciate the fact that you've come quite a long way to be here must all run through the results gleaned from soil and guts samples and then you cools off and sap the name and stress plant in charge of analyzing the levels of heavy metal spout in the human head that's been gathered looking for someone only we don't know it was bill who says she used to have a go to clean bill some was really sure who. was

a very nice you don't know it was the answer is. yes you will. surely was it is usual to girl always will be sure to tell you who it. was you will do it don't do. it. so sorry just. for so forward when you would expose your post and go this was on when you were exposed to it with the people. that god loves you then don't go and no one is exempt is because while you're the people i don't think. your ex was rule yet it really all was vague ya know these findings could help south african doctors give me a tandem better diagnosis for her disease. or yours and all people just like

western. people which. i don't know less than you and all those who are you with of course failure as if you know. more hope you next was a job and you don't need ok taken together the result a deeply disturbing. the soil gathered by much from the mine tailings is full of heavy metals the level of all snake for example is $330.00 times higher than the norm the water is full of uranium $100.00 times the international limit the goats are infected their fur contains 83 times more lead than those living far away from the mine tailings and as for the residents some of the children show 64 times more exposure to lead 5 times more exposure to your ania and 4 times more exposure to us nic than the average french person be adjacent easy to get mean we

eat is dangerous for you it. can cause celeb can we do. it. looks to give us. your usual you don't. even know she'd miss you know you for your. you know. i think in a way it is this one moment and this is not all those people that are really. miles apart still the scientists who can be still be able to say we've had enough of this man's exposing us all so we're not

appealing now to everybody once again from a shortage you cited the vision there was the book is you know we've lost because of insufficient evidence but now we're dead document that we really like doing now so it will ease the universe be able to know what they've been. doing to very much once again. as residents begin planning their next move. including a possible legal claim against the mining companies. obtains an interview with the chamber of mines. the industry's association for some of south africa's most powerful mining concerns. when you're so pretty pretty you don't seem to see if from what they mean look good enough for just someone just as

soon as your eminence extend to put on you some 20 snuff. almost 120 years later stuff in a mood out runs the lincoln i's ations anti-pollution department on string for those issues because the gold producing families do not want to address individually are getting the environmental impact of the mining industry and do you think it's it's going in there on the right track on the goodly. yeah is there is significant progress achieved this far in terms of my mean companies dealing effectively with environmental impact how's the chamber of mine ever conducted human health impact assessment regarding the tailings the mine tunings is not it's not that i'm well ok so we don't some some some small time then shows the same

scientific analysis that he has shared with the residents back in the township we never heard about that and i don't know. what does that make you think now it's quite concerning for me and i think something should be done do you think that the mining industry that you were present have a responsibility in these numbers. i think it is with our member companies mind he is we do have the responsibility do you leave close to the mind. why not even me. i'm in most of the it's i mean most of the i mean those guys they follow the table as not the other way around they choose to go and stay there thing the people that live around the tape these teachings this huge paintings are on drugs producing they're saying they're not safe. at all there's

a lot of. environmental risks as well a safety of risks and why do you think you've been clean over all these years of yes to something should be done for the tailings that our own. when it when you say something do you think it's something when what is it about eating the media in the we have built in of those should get rid of the yes i think we need an all vote all management strategy as the industry and obviously in putting up with government. so what does the government have to say. south africa's environment minister declines to be interviewed. and his office says that the subject is not his area of expertise. the ministry of health on the other hand

is very interested. in leave a bill. is director of the national institute for occupational health $1000.00. fundamentally this is of great importance to demonstrate that the levels are so much higher and that there would be negative health effects on the children and really one of the real tragedies that the study said and why the money has not been prioritized we need to make sure that mines and other workplaces don't continue to contaminate the living environment for communities and so on. you know what would you like a copy or we would absolutely love to have a copy because you see we don't have this b. b. b. b. b. don't have it in and then we can go in with our medical teams and perhaps have a sample of those who have got high levels of these different heavy

metals and uranium and go in more physical examination do blood tests do unit tests and monitor their. the south african government will soon begin a major study on the health impacts of mining pollution. but time is of the essence in 2017 mining companies extracted 130 tons of gold from south african soil. producing 27000000 600000 tonnes of supplementary waste. more ways to be produced next year and the next one and the one after that. there are still 35 years remaining of exploitable gold reserves in south africa. how many more victims will have to be in that time before people realise that life is more

precious than gold. once again the weather still largely settled across much of australia big blue skies for the most part but the cloud just a rolling through the bite down towards that southeastern corner still quite warm in sydney after a reason spell temps getting over 20 celsius. will the same to come over the next day or 2 as to be early next week before that heat finally breaks the midwinter

heat still in place 1415 celsius the melbourne and for adelaide grey skies grey skies over towards perth as well as we go on into saturday that clouds starting to thin and break but temperatures struggling to get 13 degrees celsius here in the southeastern corner how about dry some brighter skies into the eastern side of the state but some wetter weather making its way over towards new zealand over the next day or so you can see the the cloud there just pushing up towards the north island as we go on through the next 24 to 36 hours some rain on that actually if the northernmost parts 15 celsius in or clean 16 perhaps as we go on into saturday further north into japan where we're keeping an eye on a tropical system not too far away started to push its way up towards the far south of the country but for friday and much of saturday it's fine dry and sunny.

in south korea around 2000000 dogs are eaten every year but now animal rights groups want the engine tradition taken off the menu when no one east investigates korean dog friends or food or knowledge is iraq. setting the discussions were 13 was the deadliest year the aviation industry has experienced for some time examining the headlines many foreign journalists including those from al-jazeera have had their licenses revoked their offices raided explore an abundance of world class programming designed to inform motivate and inspire that convinced me this was the conservation chance of a life that the world is watching. on al-jazeera every reclaim news cycle brings a series of breaking stories this maximum jail term has jumped from 5 years to 175 years joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media donald

trump shouldn't be the one deciding who is a journalist and who isn't to focus on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most they moved closer and closer to a tire shut down both international and domestic news coverage on al-jazeera and this was different. whether someone telling someone to read it doesn't matter when it's true i think it's how you approach an individual and as it is a certain way of doing it you can just. get a story in the out. 0 . 0000 a very warm welcome to the news hour live from london i'm maryanne demasi al top stories. safe from the sea some of the 140 migrants rescued off the coast of

libya but many more feared dead a key figure in tunisia's transition to democracy president page you either dies at the age of 92. protesters are continuing nest celebrations after puerto rico's governor a cut or a sales boss to pressure and resigns and the new u.k. prime minister makes old promises over breaks it but the e.u. hits back saying it won't mean a go shake the withdrawal agreement. in sport munchers you know it should record a full straight pre-season when you know it's it between european champions league runners up top and soon warm in shanghai. welcome to the program libya's navy is saying that at least $115.00 people off

missing and feared dead and a ship off the coast but the un refugee agency says as many as $150.00 people might have been killed 2 boats left from the town of homs east of the capital tripoli with around 300 people on board around a 140 people have been saved by the coast guard and returned to libya the u.n. agency has repeatedly called for rescued migrants not to be returned to libya where they face conflict and possible imprisonment. giuseppe fama is the relations manager at the international crisis group joins me live now via skype from brussels so still some uncertainty over what has taken place here but if there are 150 people dead then this would be the largest loss of life in that in the mediterranean this year is this journey becoming more dangerous yes hello larry and thank you for home me 1st of all this tragic accident the

story of indeed they believe john has become even more then they wear the make racial group by early. on they're going significant changes in 2070 europe laws for each by about $120000.00 migrants crossing from libya but the last year there were only $20000.00 however the speired me significantly piece the number of people dying that's pite dramatically in 20171 person every 38 was missing in city in 2000 hate the this number move to one in every 18 persons in this stance that these jordan although. being less. crowded less crossings coming towards europe to libya the route has become more dangerous for a variety of particles which include. well changes in european policy has changes

in member states paul who's in particular in the live in all saw a more. responsible role though for a levy on the agencies such as the course growth in the now if you perform a search and rescue britain's economy says it can i just ask you so you've mentioned some important fact is there are potential immigrants showing some awareness of that so in other words are they much more aware of the risks of that they would take if they were to make a perilous journey at sea are they are they more aware of the risks from human traffickers in the conditions in places like libya and the hardline policies you mention in countries like italy. yes well the numbers to show that the number of people trying to cross towards europe. change overall because of the same time we have had these is in the those words of spain in the western route

or those addressed towards a greece and he said he wrote a biography suit so. changed the context exactly. taking place in between libya where you mentioned the 1st of all the congo and have been more and more hostile towards other actors such as international n.g.o.s who used to perform about 40 percent of the search and rescue operations in that stretch of sea secondly the. coast guard the navy since june 2000 made operates in this so-called section risky regional believe which is basically the peru meet there that that's now been agreed to take primary responsibility they were either intercepting or since in boats in the stress including mike with and this means that more people are taken to lead the. 3rd part there is that the european union hog the poit i mean it's very moving mission.

sophia which since last spring due to the princes in the use and the contras taking place between european union member states how he has been renewed with out of maybe us it's without vessels so we have a navy mission. that for this very reason cannot perform their search and rescue operations that it was doing. its internet international. obligations. or it will simply become more dangerous thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us separate from the international crisis group joining us from brussels. thank you very much. well now the man who guided tunisia to a new democratic age has died the age of 92 years old he was elected president in

the wake of protests that toppled a dictator and sparked a wave of anti-government movements in the middle east where he's now been replaced by the speaker of tunisia's parliament who's been sworn in as the interim president a new election will be held by the 15th of september catch up as her diane has all . a new phase in 2 nations government with speaker of parliament mohamed in a sewer sworn in to serve temporarily as the country's president he will take over while elections are organized. i swear by god almighty to protect the independence of tunisia and the safety of its lands to respect the constitution and law and fully take care of the people's interests and be loyal to tunisia. in this young democracy a vacant post for the country's leadership could spark a power struggle among tunisia's political parties definitely candidates who are considered to be quite popular and quite strong but also very controversial who

have been barred from running the presidential elections by parson parliament not too long ago this law has not yet been signed by missteps and before he passed away and i think we'll hear a lot more about this controversy next couple of days president said speight who spent the last few weeks of his life in a not of the hospital was a leading figure in what was known as the arab spring uprising as prime minister and then tunisia's 1st democratically elected president he helped draft a new constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech thanks. i'm going to have his accomplishments though were often overshadowed by a weak economy and high unemployment rate there is despair nobody can deny that there is the sense of hopelessness nobody can deny that however in comparison to other countries there is still hope that we can fix the pot and go towards a more prosperous than 87 days of national mourning have been declared as the country honors the life and legacy of a so speaking go nowhere is that the start of

this mission on a positive note and he finished at the same way may he rest in peace his predecessor's her the country but he was a good man who served his country no one did that before him no one shot if he she we hope the next president will be even better we hope our country will be stable and safe we had some terrorism but the country doesn't blame him it's unclear who will be the front runner in tunisia's next presidential election but the groundwork has already been laid out for what should be a smooth transition katia lopez so the yawn al-jazeera. much more still ahead on the program for you well looking at the soaring temperatures breaking records right across europe as the continent's swell says in a precedented by. 5 executions is scheduled off of the trumpet ministration reinstates the death penalty for federal crimes and then in sport we meet the amateurs riding the roads at the tour de france in a paid for equality. celebrations

are continuing on the streets of puerto rico's capital after its govern about to public pressure and announced his resignation it's been nearly 2 weeks of mass protests calling for a card or a say a to step down demonstrations respond by the release of offensive messages sent between resale and his top advisers that was already anger over government corruption in a u.s. territory that's bankrupt gabriel amazon know was that when she is 1st fill the streets of san juan on wednesday night. i was. a victory for the people that this was the moment to go about after 2 weeks of street protests against your big day governor ricardo rocio said he would try to step down. the side of the call that are going to live where we look at despite

having a mandate from the people who elected me democratically today i feel that continuing in this position presents insert multiple difficulties adding heard the complaints spoken to my family thought of my children and even prayers i've taken the following decision i announce to you today that i'll be resigning as governor effective friday 2nd of august. those of the street cheerleader later i think i was. right. was he was he was he was supposed. to send the kids what he's feeling right now. this is us but it does not appear he does the world and we've got to protest the man. they're calling it

a revolution others like him say it's puerto rico's arab spring i was i was euphoric i couldn't believe it i 1st generation do you know how. proud you feel the 1st generation to get out of the just because we said so we went to the power of the change of power that began with 2 cabinet members to her arrested by the f.b.i. for alleged corruption one was a minister of education. and was followed by the elite private text messages sent by the governor in them he insulted his own people made vulgar comments about women and appear to joke about the puerto ricans killed in hurricane irene 2 years ago but this was a transition also about a people who rose up and demanded more from their leaders on an island that's a u.s. territory this.