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old bringing an update from the scene. to the. result of the mediterranean with what's believed to be the worst shipwreck they have issue here nearly $150.00 refugees afia drowned after their boat capsized off the libyan coast on thursday scores of others were rescued but instead of finding safe harbor here in europe they were sent back to libya to face more uncertainty and desperation. 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 sense 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. 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 to 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 they are still disagreement in the e.u. over how rescued migrants should be distributed among member states. we can talk

about this further with flora vast fall his general director of doctors without borders that germany welcome to d w why is taking these poor people back to libya a problem because in all likelihood they end up in overcrowded prison cells without enough food without clean water or proper hygiene and any significant medical care we visit 7 of these places have done so for many months in the region of tripoli or it's come to in addition to this is that recently we've seen a lot of fighting and some of these bases have been directly struck by an airstrike for example which left 60 of these people who were interned there dead at the beginning of the months but the european union has there would tell us that they have done deals they have they have they have they're actually got money to send money to set up these places and make sure that it's all properly regulated where the reality is that what we're seeing right now in the region of tripoli. most

affected by really the civil war that we're seeing in libya right now up to 4000 people who are stuck who'd have to be evacuated as quickly as possible they're stuck in places of detention sometimes right next to the areas of conflict and even worse the libyan coast guard which is rescuing people in the mediterranean is taking them back into exactly these same prisons which if that from your organization doctors without borders says these deaths and suffering are preventable ok so how and who should prevent them well what we've seen in the past is that the european states were actually very active including italy in particular in terms of search and rescue activities in the mediterranean they saved tens of thousands of lives but in 2019 the last actual naval assets the e.u. had in the mediterranean where withdrawn what we need now is a significant and substantial effort by the european states bringing the ships out there bring the crews out there and rescue people before they drown this cannot be

left up to private nongovernmental organizations because we cannot do that on our own and also europe needs to stop preventing us from doing so stop criminalizing humanitarian efforts to save these people so given this apparent lack of political will to deal with this problem i wonder then what you think of the efforts of the italian government to force this issue of the political agenda if not their methods of italy is is one of the countries that is saying look we will not allow these ships to land in our ports but they are as i say force and these are the political agenda or one thing is certain this is a challenge to the whole of europe this cannot be left up to the italians alone it's not just for them to deal with this humanitarian crisis we've calling on the rest of the e.u. to do so to what we object to is obviously the methods that italy has engaged in some of the european states have been gauged which have simply targeted those private organizations that are actually trying to save. lives targeted and

tarnished their potations and directly criminalized their action that's wrong you can call as much as you like common sense and humanity says something should be done but we reach the point where ok everybody says something has to be done europe has done its bit but by trying to sort out a common migration dispersal policy but there are there is resistance within the block that's just politics it is just politics but the reality is also that we've had something like $500.00 people have drowned this year in the mediterranean we've had thousands in past years and this happens because the political will simply isn't there to save them so whatever the politics if we have somebody in the streets of berlin who is the victim of a traffic accident we're not going to make that into a political issue in our crew she was she is whether they deserve our aid we just want to help them and this is that kind of humanitarian emergency except that the politics the politicians would also say few people are drowning now that we are

discouraging the people traffickers and the people smugglers well actually the reality is different though because the push factors from libya the cat's ass trophy that libya is for these people which they have to flee from continues to push them across the mediterranean even when there's no significant search and rescue effort present as is the case right now no private search and rescue ships allowed but as we saw in this disastrous catastrophic events recently people still trying to flee across the med. good talking to you thank you so much for joining us flora invest fell from doctors without borders. we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world police in southern peru used used tear gas against protesters who were demonstrating against a copper mine which they say will destroy the local environment but the government in adequate but says the project will benefit the region's economy a number of police officers were injured in the standoff. in sao paulo in brazil

armed man are reported to have taken 2 hostages and stolen $40000000.00 worth of gold and other precious metals from a cargo terminal at the end of the fall raiders arrived in black pickup trucks disguised as police cars and then threatened their staff until they filled up the trucks with cargo a spokesperson said no one was injured the man and their houses just remain at large. palestinian president mahmoud abbas has said he will stop implementing agreements with israel this is the 1st time is that i'm such a clear breaking corporation a sign of worsening relations between the 2 sides to this week israel demolished 12 palestinian apartment buildings citing security apparatus describing it as a crime against humanity. and the government protests have taken place in algeria the capital for the 23rd consecutive week the rallies began in february and forced longtime president abdelaziz bouteflika to resign in april there was traces of

sensor maintained pressure calling for regime insiders to step down. and in the united states their federal government has announced that it will resume executions this year the last time a prisoner was put to death in a us federal prisons in 2003 since then there has been an unofficial moratorium want to review was carried out the u.s. justice department now says that review is complete and this is cleared the way for executions to resume critics of capital punishment say the decision is politically motivated. boosting support for president to 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 only 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. straight to washington then where we jointly double correspondent helen humphrey welcome helen so why is this happening now. phil what we saw today was president trump put a card down on the table for the 2020 presidential election he estimates that this will play out well with his conservative base he has long been in favor of the death penalty taking out a full page ad in the new york times previously backing executions and he's also said in the past that perhaps the united states would be better off if it

implemented policies similar to that seen in the philippines of course where philippine president rosarito deterred he has pursued policies execution drug dealers in that country so he estimates it will play out well with his conservative base and if we take a look at the numbers certainly republican support for the death penalty for capital punishment has stayed steady over the past 2 decades 8 out of 10 republican voters still backing capital punishment in this country we heard in the report that there is no clamor for this move so one wonders how contentious an issue is it. this certainly is a very contentious issue and not one that historically has necessarily fall in along party lines for example in 1992 the then democratic presidential candidate bill clinton defended the death penalty indeed he even left the campaign trail to return to his home state of arkansas and presided over the execution all of ricky

ray rector this was a man a black man who was mentally impaired who had killed a police officer and another man and i think that that also speaks to another reason why this is so contentious with evidence of racial bias currently 55 percent of people on death row of people of color and then of course there is the issue of the risk of miscarriage of justice research from the university of michigan says that 4 percent of people executed in the united states were innocent and as such we've seen many democratic presidential candidates today speaking out against it one for example including kaamelott harris a former u.s. prosecutor say that it is a moral deeply flawed and too many innocent people have been executed in this country the only democratic presidential candidate who is in favor of it is steve garlock the governor of montana who says that it can be used for example he

advocates it in the case of terrorism and brinkley helena many us states never gave up the death penalty so one wonders how big a deal this is. this is certainly a big deal phil despite the fact that there are 29 states which still have the death penalty because it goes against a trend from 2008 to 2018 that the number of death sentences has fallen by 85 percent we've also not seen a big call for a revival federal level so there is certainly a concern also with the rapidity with which the attorney general bill barr now wants to see these death penalties these executions go ahead 5 men and then more to come and then the whole thing in washington thank you. boris johnson's appointment of britain's prime minister has defied to pinion in the u.k. to thousands of miles away in turkey residents of

a small that just celebrating a sense to power what is johnson has traced his ancestry back to cow thought in cow keeley province and people that are buzzing with excitement that a man they see as one of their own is britain's new leader it's a far cry from the grandeur of westminster this is the house where boris johnson's great great grandfather was born more than 200 years ago now residents of the small turkish village of kufa to hope johnson will return to discover his roots and meet his distant relatives borders for a new chorus is my cousin we want him to come here and visit his ancestral lands to meet us on a. little more from the villages here have welcomed johnson's rise to become british prime minister. we were happy that boris was in fact we all gathered here and celebrated in front of my office we all applauded him what . form

a man met johnson when he visited turkey as british foreign minister and 2016 back then johnson received a warm welcome even though he was claiming in his breakfast campaign that millions of turks would end to britain if turkey joined the european union. he had to say such things in the political arena in order to make political gains you know that as well as we do and all politicians know it too so do the people in his country you know that when you are in the form a man most of our pal is a straight politician himself because of online goes most in simbu so in order for a town to develop we would like to benefit from people like boris johnson. in that they're under their leadership we would like investments for our town. and they make sure the investment or not here in california there's a sense of pride that a man the local say is one of their own is now the leader of the united kingdom.

that hong kong where protesters have taken their 5 democratic freedoms to one of the world's busiest airports thousands of demonstrators have descended on the arrivals hall at hong kong international to raise the alarm about what they see as a potential inversion of the territories independence so this is part of a mass protest movement sparked by a controversial extradition bill which it's feared would allow china to time its grip on the island. huge crowds of protesters greeted passengers into arrival halls wanting to win their sympathies for their cause for almost 2 months now they have been holding demonstrations demanding greater democracy. the trigger was a now suspended extradition bill which would have allowed hong kong to transfer suspects to the in transparent justice system of mainland china. in one to one that we would want to let the people know that called us not what used to be and we don't want. to have. half of

tracing masks a common garb not just as protection against pollution or airborne bacteria but also against facial recognition technology. whatever trust demonstrators may have had in the territories or thora t s was shattered last weekend when despite prior warnings police failed to stop suspected organized crime groups from brutally attacking protesters and bystanders 45 people were hospitalized as a country once again we just want to fight for the rights and core values of hong kong. i can't understand why the government and the police for treat protesters who are protesting peacefully that way you. know it's this way to passengers seemed unfazed many supported the protest i feel i feel that i think that they feel it's good that people are standing up for what they believe in freedom. and i would i would support protest in terms of that freedom of speech and

their rights and i believe that it's to do with extradition so yes i can absolutely support them i would i think i you know people want to make their voice heard you know if we're sitting in their windows of. hong kong is bracing itself for a further weekend of protests the government is under increasing pressure from the demonstrators and also from communist party leaders in beijing who fear the unrest could spread to the mainland. correspond that much is that hong kong international airport and sent us this report. the protesters have occupied the arrival hall of the airport to tell people who arrive what's happening in their city they own rage by last week's attacks by criminal gangs on protestors and commuters in the cities metro system and tomorrow there is another protest

planned at the site where these attacks have happened we are probably going to see a lot of conflicts tomorrow the police has not approved this march tomorrow protesters have vowed to go anyway some of the gangs have also said that they would be there so tomorrow is going to be a critical day in this protest movement and we're going to see what happens which is in hong kong millions of people here in europe have been sweltering in this summer's 2nd heat wave in the soaring mercury is causing travel chaos eurostar advised against travel to or from paris today after damage power lines at goddard no cause severe delays the train tracks risk buckling in the intense heat and roads are also affected in the netherlands one town has resorted to spreading salt in a bid to stop the roads from melting. while in

some parts of the world these temperatures may be normal for many parts of europe we're not equipped for this sort of weather rebecca recess can tell us more welcome rebecca so how is europe coping with the heat that well but i'm a straight in so you know going to him a complaining about the warm weather and you know as he said many of our view is actually are from warmer climates and might be thinking what's the big deal why is everyone in your kind of crying about 35 or even 40 degrees but you know as you mentioned it in europe just isn't equipped for this kind of weather the infrastructure is just not there so it takes for instance air conditioning which you know where i come from it's pretty commonplace but here across most of northern europe it's it's pretty rare you know people in high. houses offices and specially public transport there's no air conditioning so can get very hot so that's prompted one guy by the name of jesse to develop a website mapping all sorts of places in berlin that have air conditioning whether they be you know shops or department stores or whatever and then people who are out

and about and sweltering in these same holidays can math and find out where to go to get a bit of a reprieve it's been proving least we got in touch with him and he's that usage of messiah is really spiked in the last couple of days surprising but you also mentioned in your late in that about the train the rail tracks and how it is they're able to bend here because they're actually the train tracks in europe are really sort of prepared for the withstand cold cold spells around them they hate so so austria is really trying this new thing where they have painting the train tracks want to see with that will reduce temperatures got laid off from whether it's working but people say that could reduce the temperature by about 7 degrees so we just see was are people getting quite creative but they certainly are it's you know cause it's a serious issue but people we've taken some of the funniest things from people who are posting on twitter under the hashtag heat wave and we've got this guy in front

he. has just gone all out the creative using open the hydrant to keep all cool i mean this guy in the u.k. beach to the city pavement and in amsterdam a cafe has put these little floaty pulls down for its customers so they can enjoy a cool beverage while keeping their toes nice and cool but good news for people across europe bad news for me we're going to get a bit of reprieve in the coming days so things will be looking a bit easier across europe. resist thank you so much for. in sports well france is careening from one heat wreck or to the next stage 19 of the top of france had to be interrupted early after heavy hail caused dangerous conditions on the final downhill stretch or right of times where instead taken from the summit of cold this era 40 kilometers from the planned finish line again ben now was the biggest beneficiary of the colombian claim the yellow jersey and the

previous overall leader julian allaf elite look frustrated his title chances in are fading as now the favorite to stand atop the podium in paris on sunday. and with this year's tour nearing the finish line let's get a longer view now courtesy of the race is oldest living when a 91 year old federico bahamontes known as the eagle of toledo won the tour de france back in 1959 becoming the 1st spaniard to win cycling's most cherished prize result for more than 50 years now he's still in love with the sport but not with modern cyclists. further rico martín by a moment is so many hardships early in life during and after the spanish civil war his major concern was finding food in staying alive before becoming a professional writer he honed his cycling skills while delivering bread for black market traders and fleeing the police those skills led him to racing and eventually

the spanish cycling federation picked him for its tour de france team in 1959 montez won it all. but when i won the tour all the spaniards enjoyed it more than anyone else from that moment on things changed for spanish cycling in general franco met with me and the evolution of cycling changed for the better. decades removed from the sport he still regarded as the tour de france his best ever climber winning the king of the mountains classification 6 times but he's definitely not a fan of the sport's modern era i just look at some of the commercial firms are killing the sport right now you have x. number of millions 100000000 euros to make a great team and you can do it you can't do it because they're all thinking about money and not about the results. because you know what i call today

cyclists the holy week procession of them they only lack the candle and the lighter to light the candle. never one to mince words the oldest living tour de france winner declined an invitation to witness this year's event firsthand opting to watch it on t.v. instead. now south africa's 1st restaurant serving insects as its own main courses opened in capetown the insect experience pop up restaurant delicacies like limes and fly the cats this is. insead faced ice cream for dessert but of the 4 different types of insects on the menu by obama a restaurant owner says a more will be added one seating a critical just becomes more acceptable and he hopes to turn the tray into a fine dining experience. is

a reminder about top story nearly $150.00 migrants a feared that dropped off that boat sank off the libyan coast on thursday about $137.00 of us were rescued and return to libya officials say it is the deadliest shipwreck in the mediterranean so far this year up next here on africa with a report on south sudan's pond on plastic bags i'll be back at the top of the hour with.

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