this is news coming to you live from a migrant hijacking on the high seas ends in a more team sport the libyan bomb vessel had rescued refugees and migrants event the captain refused to change course some of them took matters into their own hands was an act of piracy or an act of desperation aimed at south preservation. also coming up on the show the british government seeks a breakthrough on bricks in the vote on his brakes a deal tomorrow but it's unclear if ali meant to procedure will allow it. just.

kind of a warm welcome to you i'm. mortars armed forces have taken control of a tanker that was hijacked by migrants rescued at sea the ship has a right to morty's sport with military personnel on board five people were handcuffed and escorted off the vessel the incident comes only a day after that you decided to suspend maritime patrols in the mediterranean where thousands have been rescued the e.u. is now relying on air patrol. joining me now is keith mccullough a journalist for the times of malta in the letter welcome to you know what is the current situation on the ship and what's going to happen to the refugees. well this

situation has evolved rather quickly it's taking the form more and more of a bizarre accident it's started off early reports that it was a high jet by receiving was mentioned but then eventually it transpired that it was more of a case of the crew being overpowered by a group of migrants a group of about one hundred and the migrants which had been saved often have been coasts and who lay refusing to go back to libya apparently their just a geisha for refusing to go back east that they feared for their life it's also worthwhile mentioning the number of children the number of women on them on the ship. since then the maltese authorities have disparaged the armed forces the armed forces stormed the ship they've taken control and now all the migrants have been paranoid and have been five arrests we're going to defy the arrests made so far the

information we have there are yet to be charged in court but they are expected to face charges of using force to get the take over the command of the ship and they very think it through its course this is decide to ation so far meanwhile the controversy know is raging because some are saying they shouldn't be treated like criminals because they were fighting for that they were trained they had the justification to take over the city because they feared that blowing directly via would eventually cause dear to them possibly it would have been stated right i keith mccullough in the letter a jealous before the times of mortar thank you very much for having us up to date on the situation that. now as beacon of the european union has suspended amount of time patrols in the mediterranean and spot of its sophia mission for more on that we have rebecca vitesse our correspondent in brussels rebecca on the concerns that more avenues of be as low avenues are being

closed refugees will use more and more desperate means to come to europe as we just heard in that report from. well i'm ready to have humanitarian organizations have long warned that plugging one hole will not necessarily mean that migrants will not try and get to europe and we're seeing that obviously with situations like today we're also seeing a massive rise in numbers of people taking alternative routes those coming from morocco over the gibraltar strait we are seeing numbers from libya decreasing largely due to the controversial deal struck between struck between the e.u. and libya so we are seeing people take alternative routes and i think it's quite possible people will take more desperate measures but overall we have seen a drop in numbers since the two thousand and fifteen so-called migration crisis up to ninety five percent less numbers coming to europe these days and the reason why the e.u. appears to have ended its mission patrolling is that they cannot agree on how risky

people should be distributed between european states and this agreement many would argue can cost lives how is this being viewed in brussels. well it really depends on who you ask emirates the e.u. commission has long been fighting for a unified approach for the distribution of migrants among member states but so far the member states have not been able to agree and we're seeing a complete failure in a unified approach towards migration from the european union and as you mentioned earlier. largely to pressure from italy and italy's interior minister vinnie we've seen that the severe mission which i will remind you is not was never intended to be a rescue mission but it did end up having that as a sort of a de facto part of the mission if you will has now closed the maritime portion of that so that's been largely criticized in brussels bartz. opinion

varies weighted i would say in displeasure that that is now finished so it really depends on who you are ask and defeated because other initiatives to find solutions to this. well the e.u. is always had a two pronged approach to migration one being obviously the search and rescue operations and protecting the borders at the actual point of contact and the other point the other prong is to to help origin countries so that people feel less need to leave their country of origin that is now being seen as largely the favored approach by the e.u. and search and rescue missions as we had being scaled back frontex the border security agency will continue rescue operations in the mediterranean but the approach will now be to bolster countries of origin rebecca riches in brussels good

to talk to you. now the british government says it plans to debate prime minister tourism is controversial deal again tomorrow but the government representatives in parliament. said it is still unclear if lawmakers would vote for the third time on a deal since they first needed to get the go ahead from the speaker the deal has already failed to pass twice she calls the prolonged uncertainty over briggs's has huge ramifications including for many university students in europe or worried about their education plans if britain leaves the e.u. without a deal the country could for outside the popular your ass exchange program used by many european students to study in the u.k. today the european parliament underlined the importance it attaches to the program by crippling its funding but it's probably too late for anyone hoping to study in

britain. for being too studies linguistics and berlin she's just scored a place as an exchange student at britain's cambridge university it would be great news if it weren't for the cloud cast by breaks it. i don't know what to do if it doesn't work out of course i hope very much that it works out and that i can start in october but i don't really have a plan b. plan b. happy. britain is likely departure from the e.u. would endanger the european university exchange program with the u.k. brussels could suspend the stipend each student receives currently four hundred fifty euros a month yet the one word university one and five rest most participants chooses to study in the united kingdom it's the most popular exchange destination for brilliant students and this year once again many have decided to apply for far it's a mess that arrested a scholarship despite the threat of bricks it. no funding would mean that many

german students couldn't afford a semester and the u.k. . event how far along are preparations. meets with our erasmus coordinator the program has been around since one thousand nine hundred eighty seven allowing students to study in foreign countries with e.u. support. arrest most coordinators stephanie tree good is says the program promotes international understanding among former enemies and it's been the hallmark of acts i grew up when there were still border controls students who do in iraq's most exchange have never experienced hard borders but all of sudden they're coming back and europe is suddenly short one country also paul's that's never happened and it's very sad that it's the most important exchange country in our program and even. down our fooling who wants to go to england no matter how watch even if it's

a financial straits it wouldn't get off me i would take out a loan i'm not even allowed to work in cambridge. and can the trouble for donna and other rescue students the pro long breaks that negotiations mean more reasons to worry it's not just the educational opportunities a german academic exchange service studies show at that german a rest most students start up personal relationships with foreign partners twice as often as students who have not spent time abroad so i enter the u.k. exchange program would probably be all right so lead to a devastating and to german project. that is going to get us now let me bring you up to date some of the stories making news around the world at least five people have been killed in a massive fire in a high rise office building in the back of a sheet capital taka officials said several died after jumping from the building as

they tried to escape the blaze dozens are reported to be injured firefighting units as supported by the military to battle the flames. in the somalian kept in mogadishu at least eleven people have been killed in a car bomb attack in a hotel and restaurant there was no immediate claim office sponsibility but the explosion to. place in a busy area targeted by islamist militants the pos. hundreds of passengers have been stranded at keflavik airport in iceland after the country's low cost carrier. announced it was seizing operations the airline advised customers to contact credit card companies or the travel agency for instructions but says it remains in talks with new investors for a fresh infusion of cash. boeing has delivered a software upgrade for its seven three seven max passenger jet that is meant to

prevent failures of the aircraft's antique store system the jets have been grounded was following the deadly if e.o.p. an alliance crash earlier this month boeing says the timing of the upgrade was not related to the accident. the chemical giant monsanto has repeatedly denied its read killer roundup causes cancer and has challenged scientific studies to the contrary but a course in california has now ruled it's a major health risk awarding the plaintiffs who sued the company a total of eighty million dollars in compensation it's the first time monsanto has lost a major claim involving the chemical most lawsuits look set to follow victory for at one heart a man who has cancer he took on one of the most powerful chemical companies in the world and one the jury said round up was defective and the company deceptive today the jury sent a message loud and clear. that company should no longer put

products on the market for anyone. without being truthful without testing their product and without warning if it causes cancer the jurors said monsanto had been negligent by not using reasonable care in warning hardiman about its products potential risks last year a court in san francisco also found in favor of a groundskeeper who said roundup had given him none hodgkin's lymphoma. and this is the second case where the jury is a monthly hell that round up causes cancer and monsanto and they are need to take note of that and they need to change their business model and their business practices by robot monsanto in mid twenty eighteen for sixty three billion dollars it continues to insist the herbicide is safe when used as directed but with share prices sliding almost forty percent since the acquisition the purchase came at

a higher than expected cost of us and we know today that because of the american securities laws by a couldn't look into the charges against monsanto's or into its books it was buying a black box and the risk in buying an unknown entity is being shown right now is it real you think it's got it hundreds of studies have shown that the active ingredient in roundup life is eight is safe while many others have found it a health risk after two years of fierce debate the e.u. decided in twenty seventeen to renew the weed killers license for use in the block for another five years but no bio faces more than eleven thousand lawsuits involving round up in the us alone. that report was by derek williams to a scientist joins me here welcome and david significant is this ruling by the california court well it's quite significant because it's what they would call a bellwether trial it's one it's one that's going to set precedents this is the this is the second trial where the plaintiff has come out ahead of monsanto and

terms of in terms of what the decision was and it's not likely that monsanto or that buyer is going to in the long run end up having to pay all of it they're going to appeal of course but and judges do have a way of of cutting off cutting down the amount of damages but it does set a precedent as a bellwether trial for possibly thousands of other plaintiffs to come now come forward and say hey this happened to me too and this controversy of i'd like to say it has been on for years in the us is that conclusive proof that it does schools comes i think well that depends very much on who you talk to there have been hundreds of studies that have shown that it's not carcinogenic but on the other hand there are many more that say it's definitely a suspicious substance and in twenty fifteen there was a an agency in the w.h.o. the world health organization came out and said it's probably a carcinogen but on the other hand you also have government authorities for example

the european food safety authority or the e.p.a. the environment protection authority in the states who say that say it's doesn't pose a health risk and so you depending on who you talk to the answer your question depending on who you talk to if you talk to a proponent or an opponent of it you're going to get a different answer and they're both going to say there's proof look it is there why do ethical dilemma at stake if you're not sure and if this is what has to be of benefit of doubt given surely one must act. on the side of caution. the problem with crop sciences is that you have to you can't forget the other side of the equation which is around. this coupled together with with with seeds that are roundup resistant the reason that it's so successful worldwide it's used in one hundred six different countries all over the planet is because it's so effective at killing basically everything except for the plant that's resistant to it now crop sciences companies say the really we're going to need this technology when there are ten billion people on the face of the planet in the year twenty fifty we need

technology like this to feed everyone so there are there are also when you talk about ethics there are the environmental aspects of it particularly i think for farmers there's the there's the health aspects there's the environment aspect there's the question of feeding populations so it's it's there's a baby and there's about water and sometimes it's really difficult i think ethically to differentiate between the two right down equips from a science and thank you very much now to a discovery that's left environmental scientists pleasantly surprised by new nasa study has found that in eastern greenland a major gas said that used to be one of the phosphorous shrinking ice and snow masses on earth is expanding climate research as have most of the news but they warn the trend is only temporary. this was glacier semakula yes lock in twenty fifteen when these images were captured or had been retreating three kilometers per

year and thinning by forty meters annually since two thousand and twelve leading scientists to bring alarm bells. but a recent study by nasa shows that the glacier has begun to expand again at about the same rate. between twenty six you know twenty seven theme from two. separate. airborne missions we fall back near the front the glacier has weakened by up to thirty meters now it's almost one hundred feet and one year. between twenty and twenty thousand the same thing again scientists are looking closely at what's happening in greenland there's enough ice sheet here to make global sea levels rise by seven meters the latest finding a glacier salmon came as good news but the authors of the study and other scientists agree this changing trend is temporary. they believe a natural cyclical cooling up north atlantic waters likely caused the glacier to

stop shrinking for now. what the measurements in the for your where this classic is demonstrated is that when the class c. was retreating the waters were quite warm and they were beaten fed by waters from the ocean and when the plaster was started to thicken that water is no longer that most of the said oceans of woman is just a transfer of heat from the ocean to the face of the glass has stopped too little too late that's the researchers message there's no sign that global warming is slowing down instead they say what's happening in samara is worrying proof that the speed of change in ocean temperatures can affect greenland biggest glaciers. for decades christo and his late authors created some of the most spectacular. and droppings of buildings around the. lord died in two thousand and nine but she was

involved in crystals most recent megaproject floating pianos on a lake in northern italy all the installations are temporary and dismantled after a few weeks so the documentary film walking on water about the floating piers is all we have to remember of that walk in italy that was unveiled three years ago crystal was in berlin on tuesday evening for the premier. eighty three years old and completely undaunted the artist christo travelled across the globe to the german premiere of the documentary walking on water. the film shows how he made it possible for more than one million people to do just that his installation the floating piers on lake is zero in northern italy was the most visited art event of two thousand and sixteen. to pick up all the water. just as they would

go. walk near the water so that. no rails but plenty of obstacles often. combine. the bumpy ride of getting the project ready in time with christos temper constantly in full flare tantrums it seems are essential to the artists process. are there in your office. the doctor lead us an orderly that's the way he functions he likes this neurotic and edgy because he keeps him going and like for example he doesn't like to eat during the day because when you're a little bit hungry you're more edgy and they're not all pink oh thank you for clarifying that is the moment when things need to be happening right away.

is the part of the making you know it's not because i'm impatient because i can turn my finger writing something to write you know. floating piers was christos first major solo project since his romantic and artistic partner john clode died in two thousand and nine together they wrapped the australian coast back in one nine hundred sixty nine over the next decades they erected a curtain over this colorado valley and gave germany's parliament building blystone a new look and it was together that the couple developed the concept for floating peers back in the one nine hundred seventy s. a gigantic undertaking for an installation lasting just sixteen days. ago. on this board who stay for ever. present cannot be removed from the mind of the people and the people of wherever. christers next work a tower out of four hundred and ten thousand barrels this time it's meant to be

a permanent structure in the middle of the desert. quite fascinating now for something a fascinating discovery is really research a say they've discovered the world's longest soar to cave in months i don't know the dead sea and international expedition led by the hebrew university of jerusalem spent two years being the cave the cave thought to be the longest until now is on the iranian question. moving to an unlikely place for a kid's reading corner it's try having in the indonesian capital jakarta despite choking coffee initial opposition from local gang says this open at children's library in the office a kids a rare opportunity for reading and learning outside school. there are no quiet rules at this library it's all about play.

reading. and entertainment the shortage of public libraries in jakarta means this space has become a big hit with local kids but i like it because i love listening to story telling stories are fine we get it's exciting. just a few years ago this fly over was strewn with rubbish and frequented by gangs but then armed with just books paint and green astroturf for the children to sit on the library's organizers got to work several murals and planted boxes later the area's reputation began its transformation. in that i want to make the image of this area under the bridge more positive to the people. before this place was perceived very negatively but there was a lot of rubbish gangsters were here and made the locals living in the area feel anxious but then we arrived and provided free books because we wanted to bring

books closer to the community and that the idea didn't go down well with the locals that first parents were afraid their children would be kidnapped or hit by a car and the resident gangs needed persuading to find new turf but it worked and today it's not uncommon to see up to seventy children attending after school sessions. because of where this place is people who are passing by can start enjoying hand and children can play while also learning that having been any complaints about the smell the rubbish or the rumble of traffic yet but just in case they use a sound system to drown out the noise. do you have any news is your is up next with british banners you are welcome british now it seems that you have an exclusive story on. on trial. in the style justice exactly.

does appearances. of the ministry of. the sort of those are what i've been following for more than three months three months in the making and. some of the begin to be about four minutes from now. on. the news is better. than before i leave. stories that feel a tank up hijacked by. a car she said a group of migrants and refugees had hijacked the libyan vessel and ordered it to head off. from the mediterranean sea. the british government has said it try and put its gregson to the flood vote in parliament tomorrow. by that westminster procedure.

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