plague. this is the w. news live from a in a furious response from humanitarian agencies to dozens of migrants drowned in the mediterranean sea than the bird picked over of the show called european civilization we cannot have that up and then some of those did make it to shore and it's a late arrival says it's closing the door to any more likely also coming up french special forces a free foreign hostages held by militants in but he nothing to say but ask the cost

to commandos are killed in the raid. sounded for all sunday will decide the champions of the english premier league it will either be leaders manchester city or live a poll who are trailing by just one point and the last round of the c's q. i manuscript is mccann and thanks so much for joining us. governments in europe are coming under fire after one of this year's deadliest shipwrecks in the mediterranean involving migrants young age alone tend to head of humanitarian group the norwegian refugee council says the international community needs to stabilize libya on the sub-saharan countries producing flows of migrants and stop fueling the fire of conflict in libya at least 70 migrants on now thoughts are have drowned

after leaving northwest libya on thursday that boat capsized near the cat cannot islands off stocks into his ear the navy was able to rescue 16 people. from the norwegian refugee council had this reaction it's all of us europeans says responsibility to avoid this mass hemorrhage of human lives in the mediterranean we were shocked that 250 people died crossing that 1000000000 more during a generation of cold war and though we seem to accept $2500.00 or more people dying per year in the mediterranean what is it again is it down the verdict of the so called european civilization we cannot have that happening now is sleaze populus government often faces criticism for its opposition to mass migration it's long pursued a closed fort policy and stands accused of restricting the work of humanitarian

groups on friday says he people who were rescued when allowed to disembark in lampedusa that's the southernmost point of a silly and that's off to other european countries agreed to take them in but it's only probably sees the rescue vessel on the far right interior minister of the they declared in a tweet that this would be the last trip for the ship. rescued from a sinking ship. an italian boat the marri journey 0 run by a humanitarian charity save them 40 kilometers off the libyan coast. the city migrants including 2 pregnant women of 5 children according to the ngo just a few of the 00s of people who have already attempted to cross the mediterranean this year. according to italy's anti migration deputy prime minister. italy's ports a closed to illegal migrants but these people landing in lampedusa cicely a lucky it's a prime minister allowed the ship to dock. applaud the migrants but this might have

been its last mission. i've spoken to sell vini about the mara journey and we agree on the police seizing the ship. was already on a warning. this ship is one of the very few rescue ships still in operation in the mediterranean said other european union member states had agreed to take some of these people a sign that the e.u.'s migrant distribution agreements are working on an ad hoc basis although far fewer people are headed to europe than at the peak of migration in 201-5000 still take the perilous journey every month and as some of brings better weather conditions the number of attempted crossings is likely to increase. as a member of c. watch one of the aid organization operating rescue ships in the mediterranean thanks so much for joining us today. it's always leadership impounded

a charity ship yesterday is it really still realistic for organizations like yours to continue their rescue in the mediterranean has become increasingly more difficult for the past 2 years where there has been a massive criminalization complain and complain of. telling people that we would collaborate with the smugglers in some way but none of this charges have ever proven true in front of a court so we've heard this before about ships never going on to never going out again from italian politicians and so far also hasn't proven true although. increasingly more difficult but on the other hand our ship. was just ruled by cord but it is. that the book head of the netherlands was unlawful and we are sailing out again very soon to the search and rescue center continue our operations there ok now the number of people arriving in europe has dropped dramatically in

recent years could want to argue that it's leigh's actually doing the right thing by deterring people from undocking on what is a very dangerous often a deadly journey well no migration flows act under very difficult laws that is not one policy of one country changing the whole migration flow there are a lot of reasons why people are not going to libya anymore why people are choosing all the routes why they are not as many people coming at all anymore on the other hand the death rate in the mediterranean so the ratio from people who leave the african shores or even the people who arrive and in europe to those who die on the journey is has skyrocketed and that skyrocketed in the last 2 years critics of organizations like you will say that you're providing an incentive for migrants to to cross the mediterranean what's your response to that well that is totally illogical i mean our organization was founded because people were dying in the mediterranean people have been dying in the mediterranean since the seventy's since

actually the e.u. closed its borders and this continued very open visa regime and started the border region that we know today with clothing off the borders for than for the. i can only say we have been people have been dying there before we came and people are dying there now that there are almost no rescue ships left in the area and there are lots of more boats in the past couple of days without any rescue ships around kristie about scaife from say what thanks so much for joining in so much fear. the u.s. says it is preparing to raise tariffs on all remaining chinese imports as the trade dispute between washington and beijing escalates how those tariffs will affect another $300000000000.00 worth of chinese gets the 1st round of terrify chs took effect just off to make night on friday raising tariffs to 25 percent on

$200000000000.00 of chinese goods shipped off to that deadline the tax hike kicked in a few hours before negotiations in washington ended without an agreement. he ws all of a salad sent us this assessment from washington it was a brief meeting in washington d.c. that ended quickly after it begun with no results but that did not come as a big surprise as the talks already stalled one week ago after the chinese negotiators walked back several parts of the agreement the major sticking points are laws restraining american companies in china and also the question how to tackle intellectual property the us president donald trump made a very relaxed impression he genuinely believes that tariffs benefit the u.s. economy and he also believes that china would pay for these tariffs but economists challenge that they believe that eventually american businesses will have to pay the bill and also american consumers there is $1.00 glimmer of hope coming from

washington as well and that's the fact 6 that all goods that are currently on route from china to the u.s. on a container ship those goods are excluded and that would give negotiators another $3.00 to $4.00 weeks time to reach an agreement. now french special forces have rescued 4 foreign hostages from a militant group in book enough 2 soldiers died in the overnight raid in the west african nation fronts is about 4 and a half 1000 troops in the region is leading an effort to fight hardest and surgeons which is considered a relative success so far but it comes at a cost $24.00 french soldiers have died since 2013. mission accomplished but that's a price set to take to p.r. firm and learn batson sello to france's military elite killed during the rescue of 2 french hostages the operation took place in the remote desert of kenya faso the

commandos were killed as they stormed the base of the kidnappers to little to sit didn't trust you it was about entering 2 of these shelters that the marine commandos said rick to you and a lot better and were killed at very short range by 2 of the kidnappers who do that i'm sure despite losing 2 soldiers french special forces managed to rescue patrick peak. they disappeared on the 1st of may well on safari in neighboring benning what the soldiers didn't expect were 2 other hostages from the united states and south korea who are now on their way home. as vote counting in south africa's election draws to a close it's clear that president several rob oppose his ruling african national congress has won reelection with an absolute majority in parliament the final results are expected later on saturday the preliminary results show the a.n.c.

with around 57 percent of the vote while his closest rival the main opposition democratic alliance has barely over 20 percent that despite its victory the result is the a.n.c. has worst national showing since the end of apartheid. and for more on this. joins us now from cape town i do and we all still waiting for the official results but the win is clear have a.n.c. supporters started celebrating yet. some supporters started celebrating already a senior member of the said of the a.n.c. that without threw him up or so the party would have likely even gotten less than 40 percent of the votes but we're still waiting for the official statement of the party and of course also of the president that will probably only happen in the evening when the final results will be announced. the a.n.c. may have won the absolute majority but they still lost a lot of support why is that. not salute me ever since the

election 2004 the a.n.c. has been losing voters and that is a clear sign that more and more people are not really happy with their policies anymore and especially with the success of them remember when they came into power 25 years ago after the end of white minority rule they promised a lot they promised to change the lives of so many people here but largely that has not happened so many people are still living in poverty south africa still one of the most unequal societies in the world and on top of that the issue of corruption is playing the country under the watch of the a.n.c. serum a process harvest to stop that is to go also against his very own people and it will be very soon that we can judge him probably already when he's announcing his cabinet because then we will see if you really will not nominate those people who have been getting into connection with corruption issues ok let's talk about opposition parties this election has changed things hasn't it's opposition parties in south africa what role of they now likely to play.

well the biggest opposition party the democratic alliance did not manage to get more votes which would have us actually expected because of the bad performance of the a.n.c. but one party certainly managed to gain more votes the economic freedom fighter a self declared radical leftist party they got 11 percent of the votes and is very likely that will make much more noise in the parliament that they did before we were at the end face reporting for us from cape town thank you so much. in football sunday will see one of the most exciting battles for the english premier league title reigning champions manchester city a just one point ahead of liverpool who haven't won an english league title for 29 is a liverpool with 7 points ahead of manchester city in january before the defending champions clawed their way back to. manchester city hope to do what hasn't been done since 2009 to retain the premier league title they are in pole position with

95 points one a head of liverpool but will have quad aeolus team buckle under the pressure in their match against brighton that it is a game that anything can happen it's more pressure because one mistake for our side one incredible performance for the opposite side one mistake for the referees in or own eyes or against. can decide the title. meanwhile liverpool are hoping for another american and manchester city slip up and the liverpool victory over vava hampton wanderers would mean a 1st week title for the club in 29 years but even the believe of all relievers team city unlikely to stumble. in this situation obviously it looks like we'll have some bright knowingly like why they're there but city will win and we will win and then it ends it is general but the after the game to play and whoops with impatience because they showed the whole year they enjoyed their football

their 7th in a believe too competitive league. to sites with crafty coaches to sites with top talent but only one team will lift the trophy on sunday. you're watching news life from berlin coming up next well stories where we'll be making a photographer document uprising and we'll find out about the be sharing app thanks for watching. an action packed life. anything's possible.