this is g.w. news live from berlin and tragedy strikes in the mediterranean once again more than 100 migrants are feared to have drowned off the coast of libya officials are calling it the deadliest shipwreck this year and a lack of political will is stymieing efforts to save lives. also coming up the u.s. justice department announces plans to revive the federal death penalty the move ends a 16 year moratorium on the practice and it's expected to trigger a host of legal challenges plus

a blistering heat wave in europe and record high temperatures france experiences of all time highs for a 2nd straight day and to germany belgium and the netherlands sweltering as well. i'm sumi so misconducts good to have you with us we start with a tragedy in the mediterranean nearly a 150 refugees are feared to have drowned after their boat capsized off the coast of libya more than $135.00 people were rescued after the accident and returned to libya it's the worst shipwreck to take place in the mediterranean this year. these exhausted migrants have been sent back to libya from where they had set off for europe right next to the survivors are those who did not make it. this woman says she lost her 7 year old son in the boat accident she's grief stricken but also

angry she says no one helped her and her family in libya oh my god they don't know how did anyone they sent me away and they told me and my children that we had to find our own way. i just want to go back to my home country of sudan to die but it is. illegitimate under my word. after what is probably the worst boat accident in the mediterranean this year the demands of u.n. organizations have become more insistent. urgent need now 1st of all to secure the release of people from inside the detention centers in libya but also to boost the search and rescue capacity we need more rescue boats on the mediterranean that's a prevent lives from being lost. at the moment there are no private rescue ships patrolling off the coast of libya it only wants to virtually prohibit their work by imposing heavy fines and there are still disagreement in the e.u. over how rescued migrants should be distributed among member states. for more on

the story we have phil invest with us he is general director of medicine germany doctors without borders he joins us in our studio floyd thank you for being with us we heard the u.n. say this is the worst tragedy in the mediterranean so far this year and your organization doctors without borders is supporting search and rescue operations that are currently taking place what is your organization witnessed so far and where are those being rescued being taken so we had colleagues at the harbor where the survivors of this horrific incidents were received in libya and they looked after roughly 130 survivors all of them shocked and really traumatized by this. drowning incident also told us that they had seen the bodies of the dead who told us about people who are missing suffering from hypothermia and other problems the problems right now don't know where these people will be taken next be extremely concerned that they will be taken back to prisons to places of detention where they

were held previously and where conditions are totally unacceptable the organization is not mincing its words today saying these deaths and suffering are preventable you're blaming the e.u. for what you call a 2 year campaign to stop all humanitarian action at sea give us an idea of how your work has been affected by this well i think 1st of all the facts of it to see we've already seen something like 500 people have drowned in the 1st few months of 29000 in the mediterranean alone what we're not seeing is europe with all its infrastructure all its means its boats and everything being out there to actually rescue these people from drowning instead unfortunately we've seen in number of countries which have actively prevented nongovernmental organizations and others from actually coming to the rescue of these people ourselves last year we had a rescue ship together with another organization as us military need and at the end of the day we had to give up because thanks to pressure by european states our flag

was withdrawn on a couple of occasions and could no longer continue the european union might have interest fracture and resources to help in this case but what if there is no political will on the governments to take migrants in but you see this is not a question of political will it's a bit like an emergency doctor on the agency a hospital ward helping somebody who is at the risk of dying you don't screw these people off before you take that decision to help and this is a profoundly humanitarian or big ation and every bit of international legislation and i would also say really coherent with this sort of idea of what europe says it stands for. given the use inability so far to find a political consensus on. where migrants should be taken where they should be hosted what do you think is the way forward should this be the purview of private rescue organizations or should this really be the european union saving people the mediterranean you know i mean the fact that private organizations have been now is

laudable but it's clearly not the solution and the only reasons we are the n.g.o.s of trying to rescue people in the mediterranean is because the governments are no longer doing it they used to do it they used to save thousands of people but they refused to do it now at the end of the day to save people's lives and this is what this is fundamentally about we do need european governments to come to the fore we need them to intervene in libya where up to 4000 people right now are immediately threatened by ongoing conflict in combat in tripoli the capital in the area and are detained as refugees they need to help these people to get out safely all right general director of doctors without borders here in germany thank you very much for joining us thank you. now in hong kong hundreds of protesters have gathered at the international airport in the latest anti-government protest demonstrators who you see here dressed in black chanted slogans and tell the banners to what they

call educate to tourists and visitors about the mass demonstrations in the city hong kong has been experiencing the protests for weeks ever since the chief executive introduced a controversial extradition bill. the u.s. government will resume executions later this year the last time a prisoner was put to death in a federal u.s. prison was in 2003 now since then and unofficial moratorium has been observed while a review was carried out the u.s. justice department says that review is now complete and it's clear the way for executions to start again critics of the death penalty say the decision is politically motivated with the aim of bolstering support for president donald trump in next year's election. the execution chamber still frequently used in the united states but in recent years the death penalty has only been applied by state governments or at least 3 people have been executed at

a national level in the past 3 decades. now the attorney general william barr has authorized the resumption of capital punishment by the federal government so this is kind of a new. surprising announcement there's no particular call for the death penalty at any federal level but there are people on the federal death row who have committed serious homicides and juries have found that they are subject to the death penalty so. there's nothing that really prevents it from knowing this $61.00 people are on federal death row including the boston marathon bomber for now 5 men have been shot jewel to die by lethal injection all convicted of murdering children some see it as an emotive decision these cases were not chosen because they justify the federal death penalty they were chosen because they were designed to inflame the public and there's concern that nonwhite

defendants will be disproportionately affected you're more likely to be sentenced to death and you're more likely to be executed if you're a defendant called. president donald trump has long been an outspoken supporter of the death penalty executions will restart in december as the u.s. prepares to enter an election year several of trump's democratic opponents are against it the issue could become part of the presidential race. let's get a roundup now some other stories making news around the world police in to keep in southern peru have fired tear gas on residents protesting a copper mine project demonstrators say that this mine will destroy the local environment but the government says it will benefit the region's economy a number of police officers were injured in the standoff. palestinian president mahmoud abbas has said he will stop implementing agreements with israel it's the

1st time that abbas has announced such a clear break in cooperation it's a sign of a worsening relations between the 2 sides earlier this week israel demolished 12 palestinian apartment buildings claiming security reasons abbas called the move a crime against humanity. the german chemicals company buyer has been told a $2000000000.00 compensation payout awarded over its weed killer round up will be slashed by or subsidiary monsanto will now have to pay just under 87000000 dollars to a california couple who claim the product gave them cancer by or still plans to appeal against the original decision. and a suspected meteorite has fallen to earth and landed in a rice field in mother bonnie in northern india farmers who discovered it say it was a bit hot and formed a crater in the ground and the 15 kilogram rock will be sent to a lab to be examined i x. . millions of people here in

europe have been sweltering in the summer as the 2nd heat wave and the soaring mercury is causing travel chaos to eurostar has advised against travel to or from paris today after a damaged power line and got to know are caused severe delays and train tracks briscoe buckling in the intense heat and roads are also affected in the netherlands one town has resorted to spreading salt on the roads in a bid to prevent them from melting. well we should say in some parts of the world they some preachers are normal but in a lot of parts of europe we're just not equipped for this kind of weather and rebecca ritter is been looking into this for us rebecca how are people coping with the heat well i'm straight so from one of them has the world that is often gets high heat so you definitely are going to him a complaining about it but it's true that you know europe's not really equipped for temperature is such as we've been experiencing in the last few weeks some of our

view is as you mentioned probably come from much hotter climes and might be wondering what's the big deal 35 degrees and you know it's not such a big deal but you know the infrastructure here is not equipped so take for example air conditioning in many places there's hardly any places really i mean we're lucky here in the studios nicely air conditioned our office but you know many offices across northern europe really houses public transport in particular are not air conditioned so people really struggle that prompted one guy by the name of jesse pena to develop a website where it's for here in berlin but perhaps it'll it'll spread methane out all the places across the city that have air conditioning so people who are out and about. and you know struggling to cope can sort of find somewhere on the map and pop into some way that can help them cool down i just was recently in bangkok and i did just that so i can tell you it definitely helps and as we heard you know there's also been instances where train tracks for instance across northern europe

have been buckling under this haze because they're really made to withstand the extreme cold rather than the extreme hate so that's prompted some. cities sorry to the train tracks why do they tend to try and keep them cool and now we don't have any daughter as to whether or not this is working but it is definitely sort of innovative idea and keep things cool that looks like there are a few creative solutions out there to withstand this heat absolutely and that goes for people as well i mean obviously no air conditioning is really hope people are taking some very creative solution that you said so we've got to come home a couple of things from tweet to this gentleman. to the story in under a fire hydrant this is life in the u.k. you brought the beach right into the city to escape the cool and this is a cafe in amsterdam trying to give its clients a little bit of a cool down while they sit on their ice lattes the lighter side of the heat there for us ok did every reporter rebecca ritter thank you very much. and while france

is careening from one hit record to the next stage 19 of the tour de france had to be interrupted early after heavy hail caused dangerous conditions on the final downhill stretch rider times were instead taken from the summit of the 740 kilometers before the planned finish line a gun battle was the biggest benefactor of the colombian claimed the yellow jersey the previous overall leaders really are left look frustrated just title chances are fading banal is now the favorite to stand atop the podium in paris on sunday. germany's world cup winner and arsenal teammate sad collapse in it were almost the victims of an armed carjacking attempt in london now take a look at the c.c.t.v. footage that shows confronting the $21.00 known attackers who appear to be wielding a knife as it was believed to have remained inside the car while his teammate and former shellcode offender leapt out of the vehicle to drive the thieves away.

coming up next on business africa zimbabwe's fall from a once prosperous economy and it hasn't hit rock bottom but some worry it's still headed down. that story much more coming up with monica jones on business africa don't go away. not go proud and they will not succeed in dividing us about oh not succeeded in taking the people off the streets because we're tired of the stick trying to show you. taking a stand global news that matters. made for mines.