w. . player . player. to. play. this is d w news live from berlin a furious response from humanitarian agencies after dozens of migrants drowned in the mediterranean just down the road to go to european civilization we cannot help that company some of those did make it to shore initially but rome says it's closing the door to any more migrants also coming up china's top trade negotiator says he's still cautiously optimistic he can reach a deal with the united states and that's despite his team leaving washington empty

handed and the u.s. slumping new tariffs on chinese goods. and in football sunday will decide the champions of the english premier league it'll either be leaders manchester city for liverpool to the trailing by just one point in the last round of the season. a manuscript mackinnon thanks so much for joining us. governments in europe are coming under fire off to one of this year's deadliest shipwrecks in the mediterranean involving migrants egeland head of humanitarian group the norwegian refugee council says the international community needs to stabilize libya and the sub-saharan countries that are producing flows of migrants and stop fueling the

fire of conflict in libya at least 70 migrants are now thought to have drowned after leaving northwest libya on thursday that boat capsized near the cat cannot islands off stocks into his ear the tin is in a navy was able to rescue 16 people young egeland 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 worn during your generation of cold war and though we seem to accept 2500 or more people dying per year in the mediterranean it's again a sit down and verdict of the so called european civilization we cannot have that happening now it's least populous government often faces criticism for its

opposition to mass migration it's lump us you'd a closed port policy and stands accused of restricting the work of humanitarian groups on friday 30 people who were rescued or allowed to disembark in lampedusa that's the southernmost point of a silly off the other european countries agreed to take them in the italy promptly seized the rescue vessel vessel and the far right interior minister they need to clad in a tweet that this would be the last trip for that 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 30 migrants including 2 pregnant women of 5 children according to the ngo are 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 lucky italy's prime minister giuseppe conseco allowed the ship to dock tomorrow john you know stuff pulled 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. instead where the ship was already on a warning. before this ship is one of the very few rescue ships still in operation in the mediterranean context said of the european union member states had agreed to take some of these people a sign that the e.u.'s migrant distribution agreements are working albeit 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. crisper doubts he is

a member of c watch one of the aid organization operating rescue ships in the mediterranean thanks so much for joining us today and 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 over the past 3 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 story before about ships never going on to never going out again from italian politicians and so far also hasn't proven true although. it is increasingly more difficult but on the other hand the 3 was just ruled by cord that it is. that the book aid of the netherlands was unlawful and we are sailing out again very soon to the search and rescue center continue our

operations there now the number of people arriving in europe has dropped dramatically in recent years could one 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 other routes white 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 effort controllers 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

cross the mediterranean was a response to that well that is totally illogic 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 the 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 christer that's k. from see what thanks so much for joining in so much. china's top trade negotiator says he's cautiously optimistic his country can still reach a trade deal with the united states vice premier league you heard made the comments after the us announced plans to raise tariffs on all remaining chinese imports the

new levies target $300000000000.00 worth of chinese products including consumer electronics now that's on top of $200000000000.00 worth of products hit by a 1st round of u.s. terrify kes on friday these come off to negotiations between the 2 sides ended without agreement. but there is still some time for washington and beijing to resolve their differences as the salat explains 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 lost restraining american companies in china and also the question how to tackle intellectual property the u.s. 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's one glimmer of hope coming from washington as well and that's the fact 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. all right let's have a look at some of the other stories making news around the world today scuffles have broken out in hong kong's legislative assembly pro-democracy and pro beijing will make his clashed amid high tensions over a proposed law of what would allow extraditions to mainland china at least 4 people were injured. and cooper is introducing widespread russian ng as it struggles with an economic crisis chicken eggs rice and so are among the basic products affected

cuba is blaming the u.s. trade embargo but analysts say the collapse of aid from venezuela has hit cuba just as hard. now as the vote counting in south africa's election draws to a close it's clear that president several run opposes ruling african national congress has won reelection with an absolute majority in parliament the final result results are expected later on saturday but preliminary results show the a.n.c. with around 57 percent of the vote while its closest rival the main opposition democratic alliance is barely over 20 percent now despite its victory the result is the end scenes worse national showing since the end of the passage. and for more on this news out of the unfinished joins us now from cape town i do and we are still waiting for the official results but the winner 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 serum 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. you have to 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 hardly 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.

through a force us harvest to stop has 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. and face reporting for us from cape town thank you so much. some football news now on sunday will see one of the most exciting battles to be english premier league title

reigning champions manchester city just one point ahead of liverpool who have won an english league title for 29 years and liverpool was 7 points ahead of manchester city in january before the defending champions clawed that 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 cut 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 that was inside one mistake for the referees in all own eyes or against. the can decide the title. meanwhile liverpool are hoping for another american and manchester city slip up and the liverpool victory over vova hampton wanderers would mean

a 1st title for the club in 29 years but even the believe of all believers team city i'm likely to stumble. in this situation obviously it looks like we've said bright no only like they're bad but so do we knew we were going to be n.c. december but they're good to play and whoops with ambitions we could say show the whole year they've joyed their football the 7 of the lead to competitive league. 2 sides with crafty coaches' 2 sides with top talent but only one team will lift the trophy on sunday. tennis now in a number of surprises of the madrid open while number one novak djokovic went through to the semi's without even lifting a rocket off to his opponent pennant tomar in chile which retired due to food poisoning and roger federer was beaten by dominic team of austria and a thrilling seesaw match to end the swiss spectrum's clay season it ended $3676.00

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