tv Reporter Deutsche Welle March 14, 2020 3:15pm-3:31pm CET
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is the show race destroying itself. we are ruining the basic elements of our system we're using too much water and we're too late to. her life. goal other supplies will last for ever but they won't lead when the rain. starts march 20th on w. . sal's winds of refugees are fleeing war hunger and poverty hoping to reach europe via libya. although still multiple multiple departures they cross the mediterranean sea and flimsy overcrowded. boats without life vests. all of the good.
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and are rescued by volunteers like these. it's early morning as the ocean viking leaves marsay. aboard our 23 volunteers from s.o.s. mediterranean and doctors without borders they've been on many rescue missions before. they've lease the 70 metre long ocean viking running the rescue operation costs $14000.00 euros each day the volunteers rely exclusively on donations. nicholas or nick roman york heads the operation the 35 year old plots the ship's course other volunteers assist by checking news and weather reports and tracking
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other ships next number one priority to save as many lives as possible. i. perceive it self give yourself the go for a potential bugs in the stress in the area all over it all right all of you are really gracious all waiting for the stress loads from the oil of the authorities. all from. the. refugee boats rarely show up on the ship's radar because they're too small. so the crew keep a lookout scanning the horizon. often traffickers deliberately misinform refugees what we've heard over the years is that. the instructions that people are given on the boats is to is to proceed north from the coast you can see the oil platforms that they have the flares burning off the excess gas so those flares are visible
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from the from the from the land and so you can see the haze and the sad thing about it is they actually tell people that that is italy so they say within a couple of hours you'll be you'll be arriving in italy the reality is it's not the case at all. frenchmen tongue he is one of the most experienced volunteers on the team. he's saved thousands of lives at sea already. we put a lot of her fortune what we're going to grow up conform with which is just about taking control of people's mind and bring them to follow our instruction carefully unclosed and to consider all the best option is to trust us several hours later 130 kilometers off the libyan coast they suddenly receive a distress call. alarms phone a network that monitors the mediterranean has alerted the rescuers. nick needs to
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know where to steer his ship. we have a look for a pulse one of the boat with no lights or a little more. worried. so while. the volunteers have made radio contact with a plane operated by the european border agency frontex they've got eyes on the refugee boat in distress. or war war. war war or. oh. really. they launched the speed boat. even. with 230
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horsepower they raced over the choppy waves are they ready to life vests to make sure everyone is safe when. they need to ensure all refugees among them women and children remain calm even though they're desperate to get off the tiny boat. right. there if. there are people that are going to own it up like a girl really started getting recruited by the number 100 that. they're doing is they don't know what they'll call you know. if there really is a good. word. good. nick can only watch from afar now everything is in tongues hands. i don't know what
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the refugees listen to him and stay calm many can't swim and tongue he hasn't handed out life jackets yet they could drown if their boat capsizes tongue he has the situation under control he's experienced and has been on many rescue missions before. for the good. the. good. looking. but. the boats must not touch as the flimsy overcrowded refugee boat could easily capsize. than the actual rescue begins. 1st 5 infants are taken aboard then everyone else one by 1.
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0. then the speed boat returns to the ocean viking. shuttling back and forth until everyone is safe. now the doctors without borders staff tends to the rescue. they swap their wet gas drenched clothes for clean dry garments men and women are allocated separate spaces onboard where they can rest. yard. and farm. well there are no. way that the rescued are briefed in english french arabic and other languages. a team of doctors checks in with every person.
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beyond that. then they receive the next distress call over the past 30 hours the team will embark on 3 rescue missions they save the lives of 276 refugees the volunteers work nonstop. but they thought by thought that some of them found that by depakote and my months of about qatar's imbibing by the wide body played by the best. $65.00 of those rescued are under the age of 18 many are unaccompanied most are from mali nigeria bangladesh and morocco. 24 year old michael is from ghana. you know was saying walls would watch what you very small. little minds we are. but eyeing you
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will go about probably the mood there was not this time by way down what i mean there was always here because. it would be there are life we don't want i mean telling them to michael like so many others got stranded in libya because of the war returning to ghana through the sahara was unthinkable so the only option left was to try to make it across the mediterranean sea. he's now using. software and from libya it's what we do you know it's more due to us sometimes you. put money on you until you plan money to clear them you are not near you. with almost $300.00 refugees aboard the ocean viking is that over capacity. with next approval the volunteers improvise creating extra space for the rescued. so i. think it's going to raise people
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270 people up and say everybody got a little bit shell saying yeah i think it's ok that we have to get it done today that we've got 3 years you didn't have time but. i would go a little bit quiet. there warren meals every morning and midday and as much drinking water as anyone wants most of those rescued hadn't brought any with them little. bit odd. at the back of the ship everyone can wash their clothes. captains told me our water level is a bit load so i'm going to have to be a bit careful with how much water we use ok so if you're waiting and you can wait almost to wash clothes washed clothes for the woman what can i do to you what you
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mean. tell me. if i have my home want to cut your birthday i can sing to myself yeah stephen are you free when you take these guys down to the senate near the muster station to hang their clothes. meanwhile nick is in negotiation with italian and maltese authorities he wants permission to bring the rescue to safety. all his actions with national authorities to avoid being accused of playing into the hands of human traffickers. i a few days later. really that morning. from bar. 2 to what. i feel i am.
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going to. finally get to disembark but italian authorities detain the ship at port one of the refugees is suspected of having contract with the coronavirus. the ocean viking is quarantined for 2 weeks. despite the fact that her health at sea is desperately needed with ever more people risking their lives to reach europe . i see videos of the central military and i see videos through throughout. the mediterranean and the atlantic of men women and and she. being left in danger of being left closely to grow for me that's not acceptable. that's why nec wants the ocean viking to return as quickly as possible to the libyan coast lives
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