ah, in our series guardians of truth and watch now on you to the d. w documentary. ah, this is the w news live from glen adrift, and in danger in the middle of the mediterranean. more than a 1000 people hoping to be rescued after thousands more. arrive on the italian island of land, producer the weekend. also on the program high wants defense ministry, says chinese warships and aircraft, still operating around the island. a day after beijing declared an end to its

massive war games. will bring you the latest from the chinese capital. ah, i'm sure gail, welcome to the program. rescue efforts are underway to help 1200 people adrift on 2 boats in the mediterranean sea between italy and greece. italian coast guard says its vessels are coordinating the rescue of the migrants stranded on overcrowded fishing boats. authority save, i have seen a sharper increase in crossings recently with thousands of people arriving on the island of lampa do so in the last few days. but nothing but many never make it. aid groups say at least 2 people died and 20 still missing. after the boat sank over the weekend, floating at sea, packed with people and without a captain to steer it. the ship is in a dire state. rescue is carried out

a reconnaissance flight to assist the situation with this school from a nearby congo. be so laying out how bad things is leaking with the anyone with. and this isn't the only boat in distress in the area. another one, carrying 800 people, is also adrift. thousands of people have tried to make the treacherous journey across the mediterranean. on this weekend alone, the italian coast guard said almost 2000 migrants had been rescued from vessels in distress. from friday, through to monday, official figures show over $28000.00 migrants have arrived in italy since the start of the year. almost 4 times bet in the same period and 2022. many of those

people actually in conflict, violence and persecution. while the numbers are still much lower than the hundreds of thousands rescued during 2015 age groups are wanting more government help is needed to stop lives being lost at sea, unnecessarily. a felix vice spinks for see watch international, a german organization that runs rescue ships in the central mediterranean. welcome to the w. and let's start with one of the examples in that report. how does a boat end up with all those people on board? no, captain, i mean this is a quite easy to describe a decision coming by smugglers. so therefore these departures even home to be able to nisha are quite a people who are

organizing. districts just have money in the end and not really the safety of the person on the boat. right? so the, the, all the standards of people arrive on the, on the coast. they all get in the boat. they just push the boat off and let them get on with it. that's. that's as far as like, it goes. absolutely. i mean there are different kinds of procedures basically. and for us it's also really unclear how this entire system is work. but this old, for example, to book which is in the east from the journey anyway, will take up to 34 days in italy. so to put that amount of money on the boat like this is absolutely dangerous and they have absolutely no interest. basically in the safety of the person, now italian authorities say more than 2000 people have been rescued since friday was likely to happen to them now and it still is new right when government, which is promised to track down on migration. so during the night we received the

inflammation coming from the alarm form, which is the emergency hotline per person, so that the coast guard is still next to the boat. so the attorney goes got that. and an s good voice is more safer because the weather conditions also during the night were so bad, which makes the rescue operation actually quite tricky and really difficult. but of course, i mean while the crops are being washed in italian sprints arrested, chips are getting blocked at the moment. and these strips who could fail out are getting forced by a new degree to carry out only one rescue observation. and then they also getting super import wide ports assigned for vacations. so this entire measurements basically coming out to the results that we're going to see in the central mediterranean sea right now. what's behind this surge that seems to have occurred? this increase in the number of people trying to cross the mediterranean lately.

it's difficult to say, but it's of course, the difficult human rights situation in tunisia, libya that we're going to see in the last couple of years, the crumbling economy. and the reason why the high inflation occupancy, driving people into conclusively and at the same time, for example, the president, tunisia has blamed my parents for the current situation, which has led to read the textbook, the country and lydia essay. several of the doors in the last couple of years, which made this country such a migration that we can see at the moment. but there are different kind of explain why. so many people are basically being libya to me at the moment. ok, thank you so much for joining us and i like that for us. i feel it's vice from see, watch, international thanks are to taiwan, where the defense minister says it's detected chinese warships and military aircraft, still operating around the island a day after beijing and at the end of the military drills in the area. china can

about 3 days of exercises in which it practiced a striking and blockading taiwan. fishing said the exercise was served as a warning to proponents of taiwanese independence against foreign interference. i was present saying when his condemn china's actions describing them's irresponsible under threat to stability in the region. get more on this from journalist fabi on their crouch, my in beijing. a welcome, a fabulous. how have these drills been portrayed in china? yeah, i mean all the big state media, they have published a propaganda video by the liberation army. and i mean the chinese military, which basically showed the military drugs as some patriotic war game. i mean, they shot a lot of fighter jets are taking off a lot of their soldiers receiving orders. and they also showed her a virtual animation of the precision star strikes that the military assimilated

against strategic targets in taiwan. so there's really only one message, and that is, the chinese military is ready to quote unquote liberate the island. and also will a tech, separate activist. so you will not find any divergent voices because this is really a sensitive matter. and there's a lot of censorship going on. so this is really the official line that are basically all the media here is following. so is that official lied in response to the recent visits between taiwan and u. s. m, or is an invasion actually, seeming to become more likely. now i mean the reaction by the chinese military and also the official ret rhetoric was to be expected. i would not say that invasion has become more likely. i mean, the official line is also that in the chinese government makes a clear that they want to m a rule over taiwan and that they will also, if necessary, use military force. so, i mean, that is quite clear, but there is no,

typically a timeline. when day would, you know, for example, plan innovation or, or, i mean, if that will be in the next years or in 10 years, 20 years or 30 years. i mean, no one really knows. and it's expected that there will be a lot of, you know, building up like the mobilizing of troops and other movements that you could also observe with satellite imagery. so i don't think it will. um, you know, a happen over night or with her day to day escalation. but i mean, those military drugs are really, i'm a dangerous because there's a lot of room for. yeah, an escalation that could get out of control because you have a lot of warships and fighter jets of the chinese army. then you have the time on east troops. you have m u s. m worships also in the region, and i mean it just one wrong assessment, run a wrong reaction and they could, that could, you know, start aspire escalation spiral that could get out of control. me were we have the front president emanuel macro of the weekend saying that europe must not be a follower of either the u. s. or china and taiwan. and that the block risk

entanglement in crises that aren't ours. those are his words. how was that received in beijing? i mean that's basically a gift to beijing. the strategy of the chinese government is to divide and are brussels and or washington. they don't want a trans atlantic alliance. they want to, or convince or europe that it should emancipate itself from the u. s. line and am. ironically when macro, who came to beijing eci to, to demonstrate european unity here has undermined the european strategy of when he says this conflict is not ours. he might actually encourage a seating ping to invade taiwan because and the reaction 'em that he made fear from europe might not be that great. i mean, that's basically what the democrat was saying. so it's really a very dangerous rhetoric, in my opinion. thank you, revert to february, february, crunch. we're in beijing. let's take

a look now. it's all stores making headlines around the world will start in brazil where president address in austria lula to silver, says he'll invitees chinese counterpart, jews in k to brazil. on the eve of his trip to beijing, luna said he wanted to show president chief projects that could interest chinese investors market a 100 days after returning to power lula has promised to put to brazil back on the world stage. south korea's national fire agency has issued its highest alert level in response to a fast spreading forest fire. in the eastern city of gang, no official say strong winds and dry weather have found the flames. people living near the fire being moved to safety and there are no immediate reports of any casualties. israel, so at the national security minister in israel's foreign government, it's a mob been fear as joint crowds of jewish settlers as a much will form. a settlement in the west bank. a call for it to be reoccupied. an official settlement actor every after every attack was closed by israeli

authorities in 2021. today the pen wife says it's prepared for a long legal fight for women's reproductive rights. this time over access to an abortion till i show down over the drug my fist, my fist preacher, the 1st person appears to be heading to the supreme court, the f. d. a approved, it's used 23 years ago, but trump wanted federal judge who's to suspended the war in ukraine. and key says russian forces are pounding, ukrainian positions around the besieged eastern city of back mode and other towns in the dynette region with air strikes. not hillary barrages, they can be continued stripes come as licked us intelligence suggest dwindling. ukrainian ammunition stalks could see the battle in the east and heading toward stalemate for the rest of 2023. this

footage purportedly shows parts of buck, mood under russian control. vast areas of the city are in ruins, in just a few kilometers from the front lines, inches, if you're thinking these civilians are collecting aid supplies, the only inconvenience is that there is no running water. without electricity, you can get by somehow, but without water in washing detergent, i asked them and they gave me a bottle. i like to bring it over to the farm today. we can wash our clothes and ourselves killing the civilians. left here are grateful for every bit of help. they can get you off of the aid is brought in by drivers like maxime, who often risk their lives. poor rancho lulu some time ago. it was scarier. she'll

socialist weekly, but now we've gotten used to it. but to welcome you don't pay attention. ah, it will be worse. anything can happen as i say, look, there is one projectile for everybody possible. whatever can happen will happen guys. this man fled the fighting, and buck moot, 2 weeks ago on his bicycle. he says the destruction here and just if yar is just as bad as in buck mood only one in 10 buildings is still intact. it was us. why is this happening to us? us people who do not have anything to do with this. i just turned 60 and everything that i made with my own hands. i had to leave behind 3 up. i couldn't even take my usb stick with me because i couldn't get into my home. don't please loony ludovic.

ah. while military vehicles head to the front lines, a few civilians cling on. many of those still here, do not have enough money to go elsewhere. said show up to date. i'll have more world news at the top of the our favor be as they has your business update. ain't just, i'm not good with i will you become a criminal ah, free climate. oh ready news.