or if i owe, like tells us they need more support around the quote, what should i see that we are not so prepared? we need more hardware. we don't have as much training as we should. men are fighting who have never served in the army. he says they are due to return to the frontline on saturday to keep the tspra. that is that he tells us an affectionate moment like this providing all to fleeting comfort. we filmed these men a few days ago. they are now back on the frontline, stephanie decker al jazeera keith. ah ah.

at least 2000 asylum seekers arrive on the italian island of lumpy, do so by bolt in just 24 hours. ah. are you watching al jazeera life from doha with me for the battle also ahead? several tornadoes hit the u. s. seat of mississippi 23. people are dead, and hundreds of homes are damaged. and handing back relics germany offers to return, stolen artifacts of cameroon. and the vatican sends parthenon fragments back to greece. the aim is to offer some kind of like, even if just temporary, as they will be returning to the front lines in their therapy program for you bring in soldiers dealing with a trauma. ah,

thank you very much for joining us. italy is reporting a significant rise in migrant arrivals by boat with 2000 people reaching italian shores in just a past 24 hours. the italian coast guard and angel ships have rescued multiple boats that have been in distress. and at least 34 people are missing. after a boat carrying mostly african asylum seekers sank off the coast of tunisia. the coastline of sparks has become a major departure point for those heading to europe. tunisian official c. this is the 5th boat to sink our fair coasts in the past 2 days. and at least 70 people have been rescued in international waters off the coast of martyr by the crew of the n g o vessel emergency. international organization for migration says the central mediterranean has now become the most dangerous migration ruled in the world. but despite the dangers, it's also become the most commonly used route for migrants attempting to reach

europe. conflict has driven a growing number of people from african countries to seek new life. sam, andrea de petri sees the scientists, the director of the center for european policy in italy says, the european union needs to focus on saving lives. in my opinion, the 1st action should be to enact to area european save and rescue action, which was actually before some years before really working and being the top 2 in the previous years. and so the 1st thing is, i would say for european union to save life, which is actually one of the main concept of do a p and you know, at the low organization for sleep. and then to realize that in this room and as a structure of the, redistributing the migrants which achieve europe doesn't matter which country 1st. but they must be clear that all the 27 members they must be engage in this action

for, for, you know, for the quality of life of people who arrived in europe. natalie need european union should basically find out legal measure to force all of the members to take their part. the responsibility if they want to be in the union should take all the part of being in the unit only the advantage, but also the rest of your no obligations been pocket european union. while i take a look at the numbers of people trying to make the journey in 20212022. there were more than $6000.00 asylum seekers who reached italy by both each year. but in the 1st 3 months of 2023. that number is already 4 times higher, more than a 3rd of those arriving this year, come from just 2 countries, ivory coast and guinea. joining us now on al jazeera is budded by a syrian refugee, crossed the mediterranean with his family in an overcrowded boat. he's joining a slide from berlin by the thank you so much for being with us on out here. so your

journey out of syria understand began in 2013, talk to us about your experience, the dangers you faced and what the journey was like. thank you so much for having me. well, the journey start in 2013 from syria where things were not doing as good interior due to the war and my family and myself, we decided it's time to get out. and we it was still doable that we could sell our belongings and book a flight and fly to asia. no danger was there. so it was around here in march, 2013 that we are ok. so you, you flew to egypt and then your family decided to, to make the journey to europe. talk to us about the 2nd leg there. how were you able to do that? who was it that made that a voyage possible?

who transported you and how much money did you have to pay for this? right. i just want to make a small correction, which is that it's not my whole family only me, ager. ok. that was 14, after spending one year in egypt. me an 18 year old, i decided i need a better future. i need to find something better for myself. with the help of my family, we manage to find someone who can arrange for such trips or everything's illegal. but we still managed to do it. it was not the cheapest at the time, it took us around 3 k. so the $1000.00 american dollar and after bang the amount to this person or, or. ringback or smuggler or whatever, want to call them. and they managed to give me a date and time and location where i should be and i did. and with that the journey

started. okay, so your family, your, i need you to your family. you decided the age of 18 that you want a better life, and your family helps you to make this trip to europe, where you feel you will have a better life. so talk to us then about the journey from egypt to europe, your destination. initially, it was supposed to be berlin, but that's not where you ended up talk. tell us about what happened during the boat journey from egypt to europe. well, recalling all these memories now, it's 9 years later, it's still not the easiest. but in general, what happened was that the 1st few days where where okay, yes, the small, small boat was kind of a problem, especially with the amount of people on board. we were around 100 refugees, different backgrounds,

some syrians and some addiction. and. ready the boat was 15, long, and long with the crew. want to call them back to people basically driving this boat. and we were not given an exact date on when we are actually we are giving the probability or percentage of the survival rate, which is 60 percent. so we got on the, on the boat knowing that there is a 40 percent chance that we will not meet over. we filled it after 6 days and the see actually to exactly 9 years ago that we called the coast guard after facing a storm. and the small boat couldn't handle any more crack down. and with that, the around midnight when he says of marsh and 14,

it was the best moment of my life when i knew that it's not going to be a certain day that we so lights. and we knew that the coast guard is on their way to save us and they do. ready tanksley, and that was one day before reaching italy, so on the shore officially. ok, so who was it that rescued you? it was the italian postcard. ok. but how did you end up in italy and not germany? how you, where you initially wanted to go to do because we cannot cross the sea from egypt to germany. there is, there's no way you have to end up in italy and then a further step. it's not simply possible that we, we cross, i know, are telling me right, of course. yeah. but how long did you stay in italy for and what sort of reception did you get in italy? the best, the but i couldn't be both but thankful for what the wonderful people,

how they treated us. it was hard for me after not having any food or a day, almost a day old, certain foods are available for us. but i have to say that was around at the beginning of the migration, it was not very common that these trips are happening. and the proof of that is the place where we ended up there were not prepared. they were not used to having this amount of refugees, so they had to pull something up. they prepare the camp for us where we could stay and 1st week was nothing attracting anything. there was no paperwork, nothing to do, just wrapping anything. we were not for anything we did not want, but i'm increasing number of young people like yourself, making this dangerous journey today, whether it's from north africa, from syria. and as you said, not everyone can be lucky. as you said in your story,

you had a 60 percent chance of making it a lot of people are not making it. what would be your message today to these young people you are today in berlin? you're safe and sound. but what is your message to the people who are trying to make the same journey? is it worth it? i cannot pull myself in anyone's shoes for myself. it was wanted. i found a better life, but that the only individual i can only speak of myself, but we know how many people, unfortunately don't, don't make it, which is a huge percentage, which is terribly sad. and i would say to think about everything more than one more than why it takes time. if there is a possibility that life could be better than do it. if there is another way that it can be that your desired, the nation can be reached without facing these consequences, it's much,

much better. but after all, like we said, the thing that you wouldn't do anything unless you have been going through something where wars. thank you. so much better. thank you for sharing your experience with us. by joining us there from berlin. thank you for your time and have a news. at least $23.00 people have died in the us after several tornadoes ripped through, parts of mississippi winds of more than 100 kilometers an hour at all. some houses uprooted trees and knock top power. there were reports of gold, full size hail as well. people in the path of the storm are being should take cover are in rigs is a professional storm chase that he explains why the tornadoes cause this much damage. as one tornado was broken out. another one immediately touches down right after it. so the cyclic super cells can oftentimes we can think that it's only one single tornado tracking over a very long distance. but as those damage surveys are conducted,

they can see those missing points between tornadoes and determine if it was one long tornado or multiple large tornadoes. produced by the same storm, which is equally as impressive with the parameter space that we had yesterday to work with that started to work with. it's not going to be a surprise to me at this. put down multiple strong law on track tornadoes and stuff . just one long track tornado. they can last anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half and track over 100 miles in 2017. i changed to tornado. that was similar characteristics to the one that i saw yesterday. and it tracked across 3 different states in the midwest and was on the ground for over an hour and a half the same thing like we saw last number with the mayfield, kentucky tornado. it was to very, very long track tornadoes. and that storm it ended up producing tornadoes for almost 3 hours. so we have gps locations where i can position myself to where i think that the tornado is that on radar. and i can position myself in a safe position for the traitor across in front of me with the parameter space we

hadn't place. we had that really warm moist air come up in the gulf of mexico. and we had what we call it stream when sheer in place. so as those storms went up, they were able to tap into that very ripe environment for tornadoes. typically on a normal day we can get tornadoes with about, you know, 200 or 201 s r h, yesterday we had 500 s r h at the lowest kilometer, which is down at that surface level. so you had a bunch of turbulent winds up in the atmosphere and when that storm took off, it did not take long for it to produce a tornado. when i got on it, it started out with just a small co shape, tomato within 5 minutes grew into a quarter mile wide tornado. just before it struck town to israel. now, where protests against the government proposed changes to the legal system show no sign of letting up is it sticks is some televi for weeks now, 12 weeks. in fact, demonstrators have taken to the streets to oppose the plan. critic say it will weaken the supreme court and give parliament control of judicial appointments in milan. con is joining us live from those protests in tel aviv. so how are they

shaping, shaping out been around these protest this weekend? how big are the crowds? well, ready? the protest officially started, but take a look already, thousands of people actually and in the corner that you can probably see, let up the red building. that's actually a model of the declaration of independence. the state of israel is serving as a reminder and a warning, a reminder, the israel is a democratic state unless of course, no palestinian and occupation what a warning that democracy is under threat. now these protests are getting bigger every single weaknesses the 12 weeks. but we're about to go in to pass over the religious occasion for june and the policy for recess, parliament, snow. the government wants to pass as many of these judicial ovo bills as a can be full then. so the protest is going to be out on the street every single

day between now i'm that paul sofa recess. this is gonna be a crucial time for the protest me, but they feel like they have the upper hand because people from the army, the air force adjoining. now it's worth taking a closer look at exactly what's happening o 12 weeks and protests against the judicial reform bill showed no signs of slowing down with each week the past as more sections of israeli society adjoining the demonstrations. the want to stop the connected sped, to have the ability to overturn some supreme court decisions. oh, despite this opposition, prime minister benjamin netanyahu is not backing down a display of israeli flags of protests is the expression of the deep sense of patriotism among those taking part. but now even that flag has a different meaning to different people. one of his roles most well known political

columnist gideon levy says political divisions have always existed. israel never decided what it wants to be are we are european western liberal society. i, we em, oriental religious said traditional. busy society, are we secular or religious, our jewish or more slim or be national? i mean those questions so open because israel had not come into terms with its identity here in the occupied westbank israeli soldiers. thank god. but his role faces a crisis here as well. air force pilots and reservists are refusing to report for duty. the numbers are growing. and according to the israeli military, it's ability to continue enforcing the occupation and ability to motel strikes and gaza will be severely impacted breaking. the silence is a group of former israeli soldiers, this dedicated showing what its members say is the grim reality of israel's

occupation of palestine. the fact the active soldiers are refusing to serve as come as a surprise to them. to be honest, i am surprised by how fast refusing to serving the army. i became publicly legitimate in our society. and when it came to this issue of the michelle overall, i think that it is a brave and it's an important way to non viral clean air exist and protest policies that you are against. and it's not just military personnel. intelligence officers are also joining the protest movement, and that's unusual for people used to working in the shadows. here in tel aviv, if you could be forgiven for thinking it's business as usual. but the protesters want to escalate and they are getting numbers out on the street. and their impact is being felt is being felt in the economy as people take time to protest. insecurity as soldiers refused to serve. in the judiciary,

your position fights was independence. and in the government is becoming increasingly more hard line as the weeks go on. israel is now more divided than ever before. iraq on out 0, television still had on al jazeera leaders from spanish portuguese speaking nations . meet will be live from the dominican hammering. ah, the hi there. good to be with you. well, a cluster of severe thunderstorms in the northwest of india punjab state. lead to the 2nd tornado in one week. this has been classified as an f. 3 twister destroyed hundreds of homes now on sunday. i think the most act of weather will be for the in the eastern side here. so the states have chatted car jar con disha and west been gone. now fort buckets down around the capital territory. and the hor,

we had some torrential downpours here drove down the temperature to about 12 to 16 degrees. much calmer weather though on sunday. but here comes our next westerly disturbance that's going to move in in today's come so little bit of a break for now. had been some flooding in west java province, that that's displaced hundreds of people, but i think the bigger downpours on sunday, central and east java problems. meantime, phuket set a record for the month of march, $38.00 degrees. it come down a bit to $36.00, few showers, thunderstorms in the mix there. and we've got a very soggy forecast for southern china rainstorm morning in hong kong. could see births about 30 millimeters of rain within a short period of time. and for japan, a white sand windy forecasts for the main island of hampshire, with this wave of what weather. pushing into tokyo with a hive. 13 degrees on sunday season. ah,

a lou. lou. welcome back. a recap of our top stories on al jazeera, italy is reporting a significant rise in migrants arrivals by boat,

with 2000 people reaching italian shores in just the past 24 hours. italian coast guard and angio ships have rescued multiple boats that have been in distress. at least $23.00 people have been killed after a tornado rip through mississippi in the united states, winds of more than a 100 kilometers per hour to do some houses up through the trees and knock tom power and protests against israel's government's repose. changes to the legal system are now into their 12 week critic say they will weaken the supreme court and give parliament control over a judicial appointments. in other world news leaders from spanish, portuguese speaking nations, have gathered in the dominican republic for talks. representatives from 22 countries are attending the i barrow america's summit. the agenda is expected to be dominated by post pandemic economic recovery. the war in ukraine and climate change a latin america to lucy, a newman is joining us live from santo domingo, where that summit is being held. so this year who is at the summit and what are

they going to be discussing with one of the big questions i school will be at the summit. we know toward the president who are not coming. one of them is president like that scene of brazil who was supposed to go instead to china. but now we understand that because of pneumonia that he has come down with his doctors were advising him not to continue on with that visit either. the president of mexico also is not coming. however, there are at least 14 heads of state and one of the questions now is whether or not nicholas my little of venezuela will be here. he is, government had announced that after saying he wouldn't come that he would be arriving today. he hasn't come yet, but that he may be coming around lunchtime. so we're going to be waiting to see whether nicole last minute or does come. it would be one of the 1st time that one of the 1st venues in years that he has attended outside of his country, regional venues that is, apart from that we have been hearing football heads of state. there been discussing agreements on digital into quality ways to tackle hunger,

which has increased dramatically in the region, especially since the pandemic and ways to deal with the problems of climate change, particularly acute drought and flooding, which is afflicted wide areas of this region. president w body of chile, however, did kind of go off those topics. in his discussion, in his speech, where he directly attacked the president and the vice president of the garage club, mr. and mrs. daniel ortega saying that they were dictators. and that the only way to deal with problems of democracy in this region was with more democracy the dominican republic, the 1st colony of the americas, founded by spain in 1492 to gay. it's hosting the 27th i barrow american summit. a forum for leaders of latin america, spain, portugal and, and dora 22 countries in all on the agenda, climate change, food security,

migration, and strategies for region one, integration to confront them. a persona professionally mclamore. yeah. these lead is supposed to make sure that wrongly birth is my work. no money. how can people feed themselves? that's why so many people leave our country. 65 year old lisa says, unemployment is made worse by the number of undocumented workers who come here from neighboring haiti. oh say, i mean that even the presidents should unite, have dialogue and reach agreements so that we aren't strung along to deal with the burden of haitian immigration because it's a problem for all of us. also on the agenda is a new source of inequality. the lack of digital access, affecting more than 150000000 latin americans. there's no way in which any country is more worried with a leak at the root. can really get into all the opportunities for a location for production, for employment,

good job to set it up. if you don't have broadband rolled, it says here at fridays of burle american business for him. many investors, especially from spain. so the problem as an opportunity. the point of the summit is to agree on common solutions to global problems, i say, and we bogo and t live. the more common, very recently we suffered from enormous wildfire and we received help from the international community, especially from a barrow america level that demonstrates the importance of our integration, dra, but it's proving difficult. the truth is that this is not a very propitious time for regional you pretty and not because of ideological differences as in the past. the red carpet may be out to welcome the visiting dignitaries, but the fact that many of the leaders in specially the to president of the regions largest economies are not coming does not bode well for i bureau american cooperation. for those leaders,

domestic rather than regional matters are taking priority. so they will have no say here in yet another thorny issue is agreement on how to deal with a tax against human rights and grog law of salvador, cuba, peru, and venezuela, which are also proving devices yet another sign of trouble times in the americas. see in human al jazeera santo domingo. the vatican has returned to 3 ancient fragments from the parthenon temple in athens, to the great government, the artifacts had been captain of attic and for centuries, increase pressure on the u. k. to return a much larger collection of marbles on exhibition in the british museum, there were stripped out of the pot and on in the early 18 hundreds on the orders of a scottish nobleman known as lord and elegant from any of the soldiers fighting to defend ukraine from russia had never been into battle before the war began. well, now they're spending months on end on the front lines,

and it's put them under significant mental strain. al jazeera, stephanie decker reports some keys on a program aimed at helping them deal with the trauma of war. they are exhausted after 3 months on the front lines around, back, moot, this battalion is now rotated out. but just for a short while. these ukrainian soldiers have been chosen to join an animal therapy session. they've been showing symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, sleepless nights. like you just feel calmer. ron animals and anime always gentle to you. it comes you. oh leg has been in the army since 2014 war is not new to him. we ask him what it is like in back mode. we open about it in which he doesn't want to talk about it. the mental toll this war is taking on countless soldiers is not something widely talked about. the scale is still unknown. programs like this are

not that common but it's a start. when a blue rodge see the wall it is a raja when they arrive here they a tense may be a little apprehensive because they don't know what will happen. but after a few hours, they forget everything with them, they managed to relax and got some new positive emotions. sometimes their eyes like top like charles some say best sleep, improved off to this role in this program, ultimately connects them with horses and it's called hipaa therapy. it feels a world away from the frontline, all part of a therapeutic process, which ultimately has the mounting up. the soldiers have never ridden a horse before and now this program runs twice a week and it's never the same group that passes through the aim is to offer some kind of light relief even if just temporary, as they will be returning to the front lines in just a few days, there is a scientific formula to this. we're told that when you're on a horse, every muscle of your body is working. you have to find your balance to not full.

you have to focus on your body. that's what we're aiming for with the horse, because if a person is under stress, they don't feel their body, they're numb. there are lots of soldiers with signs of p t s t. so we work on that . a child like moment of relief for men who carried the burden of defending their country. we ask if it is helped in this low, it was a bit and i feel quite different if it is incompatible. here we rest physically and mentally. it is totally different from there. it, it's hard really. you don't think you do your job. that's it. ukrainians to are dying in large numbers. the exact figure is hard to verify. oh, leg tells us they need more support around that boat. what should i see that we are not so prepared? we need more hardware. we don't have as much training as we should. men are fighting who have never served in the army. he says they are.