dead arriving on its stock side. italy feels it is more than it can cope with a loan. with the flow of migrants and it is a problem for all of europe to confront. the nation has declared a day of thening in the aftermath of disaster. italians are aghast at the scale of the tragedy on their shores. has spoken for many here. he called the death of so many migrants a source of shame. he said that this is a day for two years. alan johnston, bbc news, rome. >> let's get the very latest on this terrible story. we join francesco, who works for the nonprofit organization borderline sicily. he is on the island of lampedusa. i know you have worked nonstop as this has unfolded.

what is the latest you can tell us? what have you seen in the last few hours? >> good afternoon, everybody. the situation now is a bit calm mer.-- is now is a bit cal yesterday, thed tragedy -- i was in the port early in the morning when the coast guard boats came with the victims, actually. i moved to where i thought i could be more helpful. they had doctors and nurses. theuld see them and i had

possibility of speaking with some of them. >> francesco, how many are in the hospital right now? all the most serious cases have been in hospitals in italy. the others are not alive, of course. other regions of italy, the authorities, the coast guard is working, trying to find the bodies that are still missing. >> i want to ask you one more quick question. you work all the time on this issue, trying to help able using these boats to get to lampedusa. describe your feelings right now. is there any chance of stopping this happening again? >> well, my personal opinion is that, actually, it is a

situation that cannot be stopped quickly. of course, when transit like this happens, all the authorities and institutions come here, which is important because i think the world must know what is going on here. we when everybody goes away, will still have to face up to these problems every day. until europe and the western something to improve the situation there. we will still be getting people fleeing wars and religious conflicts. >> thank you very much for that insight. let us try to put this problem in some contexts are looking at the figures. the latest figures from the u.n. show more than 30,000 migrants arrived by boat to italy this

year. most were syrian, followed by eritreans and somalis. they come through the six main routes, almost 67,000 last year. is our correspondent from the bbc swahili service who try to follow one of the routes into europe from a bbc program a couple of years ago. it was a fascinating insight. ascribed to me the journey you made and how it works. >> it involved getting a passport to be able -- finding the connecting people, getting you from one point to another. , out oferia on to niger libya, they ended up in morocco, tried to cross into spanish territory, on the border with

morocco. the keytill one of crossing points. there are still key questions here. number one, how easy is it? once you get into north africa, how easy is it to arrange that? on hows easy depending much money you have. many people by the time they benghazi, for example, the main shipping place, they will hopefully be coming into italy. the amount of money you have is a determining factor. if you have enough money, you can move on. if you don't, you might likely have to stay there. >> european say over the last few years they have poured resources into helping the north african state, beefed-up security, and they have their own security working alongside the north african states. but you say people who have money can still get across? itthe money is not enough,

is the will. 10 metersmorocco, high, seven kilometers long. one migrant had been shot twice. he still had the bullet lodged in his pelvis. people able to jump over the fence, they try numbers. with about 50 of them, even with enough police it is difficult to get 50 people all trying to climb over the fence at the same time. once you make it to malia, you are in spanish territory under european law. that is different. boat, it isicular an international business. italy is one of the victims, but the main one is greece as well as turkey now. these stories tend to come up

only when you have deaths. when you do not have deaths on a daily basis -- >> a very good point, and a final question. it is a degree of desperation, in a sense. some in europe say all these people are coming for a better life, there is nothing -- but the amount of desperation that we see, able taking the risks that we have seen, are many facing persecution in your experience? eritrea, many of them have political feelers -- political fears for their families and so on. these are people who are also running from the dysfunction of poverty. i saw so many graduates with degrees in mechanical , they have, doctors been there in their own countries for three or four years. the nun able to find jobs, they keep trying. it would rather die trying then

die poor. >> thank you very much for joining us on gmt today. football's world governing body, fifa, is continuing deliberations which could result in qatar22 world cup being moved from summer to winter. concerns have been raised over the searing summer tensioners -- summer temperatures that could put players at risk. we can cross live to zürich now and join our sports correspondent. dan, over to you. time from now we will be hearing from the fifa president, and he will have to spleen himself as to whether or not the process to move the qatar world cup two is usually -- ta hugely controversial

winter schedule restart. the expectation is that it will not be as simple as that and he will have to wait some months, a consultation period before doing so. ensure intends to try to there are reforms to qatar's labor regulations because there have been highly damaging rated -- highly damaging regulations in the media over what is alleged to be slave labor in the arab states. day for him in europe. he has to provide leadership and do the right thing on two very important issues jeff overshadowed reparations, what will be the first world cup in the middle east. they are the issues that may qatar 2022 the most contentious world cup ever. setscorching temperatures to force a switch away from the traditional summer time slot. and now the heat has been turned upon fifa over human rights,

too. qatar organizers forced to a dressed allegations of slave labor. >> the government's assurance, the people's assurance, and our , that these matters arise and we will be eradicating them and working very hard to ensure that these matters are eradicated. >> today fee foe will observe events relating to workers rights. been cast. disrupting the football calendar , what it will entail. there is a huge amount of scrutiny on the qatar world cup organizers because the investigation in the guardian newspaper in britain to expose exploitation of nepalese migrant

workers who are now part of the construction project, the huge very expensive construction project preparing for the world cup in nine years time. i am joined by the chief of sports in the guardian newspaper. >> it is a huge thing because the issue of human rights is the agenda in many ways. three weeks ago, i don't think the authorities would be talking about migrant workers in qatar. now they have been forced to respond. >> was it ever likely this new -- was it never as serious as that? >> i think it would have been a huge statement to make, to threaten that. i think what we hear is that there is no threat of that happening come a but they will have to step up to the mark and show they are making meaningful moves on the ground.

it is a huge problem not only in qatar but across the middle east. cup, iton the world proves that they are living up to basic human rights standards. hugeey are already under scrutiny about playing conditions, given the scorching summer heat in the desert. is this merely post posing -- postponing the inevitable? it seems paving the way regardless. is that fair? >> that is exactly right. this is the first of several steps toward moving the world cup. it seems to be putting the cart before the horse, or whether we do it this way around, inevitably we will end up with the world cup in qatar. >> they will examine the ramifications, having the consultation period, hoping that will satisfy broadcasters, leagues around the world. how much of a disruption will be

changing the football calendar? >> is not only one year but three years but you have to -- because you have to change the calendar on either side. broadcasters lobbied heavily for this to be really thought through before they rushed into anything. >> thank you for your thoughts. there you have it. i think it is a delaying of the inevitable. there is a sense in zürich that it is a matter of when and not fifa decides to reschedule the 22 world cup. >> while those talks are taking place in switzerland, building work and preparations, the controversial preparations for the world cup are continuing in qatar. we can join our correspondent from the bbc arabic service who is in joe harr -- who is in do

ha. how concerned are they by this sort of bad publicity they are getting? >> of course, stephen, things saying they will be doing every part of -- every possible effort, raised by the media, "the guardian," talking -- things started to turn from the qatar authorities, that the whole thing they described as propaganda aimed at depriving qatar from organizing in 2022. but things have eased down now after the news from zürich. , as you saying now

know, yesterday, to have matters investigated and to adjust solutions if there are any. >> thank you very much indeed for joining us. do stay with us here on abc world news. still to come, we father the -- we follow the dobermans of pope francis. to trust their tools. it can be a matter of life and death. in order to have the best equipment, some doctors go as far as to make their own instruments. two anesthetists in the u.k. have become inventors. we find what they have come up with. >> by day, david williams and

john bingley are helping to save lives. but by night, you can find them here. medical equipment that could one day save lives around the world. designing things and building things since i was a child. i have an old car i restored, and i am interested in electronics. computeras good at the three-dimensional designs. we make a good combination for product development. >> one development was launched last year. unlike modern devices, it does not rely on batteries. it, a powerful magnet moves up and down inside it on a wire, generate electricity, which is stored and converted into light. if you give it a good shake, it will give you three minutes of light.

as doctors, we only use it in short or stifel stopped that gives you enough for a whole day. >> the process has gone on for five years through a range of prototypes. if it believes there is real value taking things back to basics. >> the beauty of that technology is that it should be able to be using simple equipment in circumstances. it requires forethought and ingenuity to come up with these solutions. >> it has already proven effective in trials. >> it is the social medium of choice for the likes of president obama. even the pope. and now twitter has published documents for its initial public offering. after revealing its plans last month. the paper gives the first insight into the finances of the

social networking site, which hopes to raise a billion dollars as it hits the stock market next month. but there is a catch -- twitter has never turned a profit, unlike facebook, which has before it went public last year. facebook has a current market capitalization of $122 billion. when it goes public, twitter is expected to be worth a 10th of that. facebook has more users -- 1.1 5 billion. twitter has less than that, only 215 million active users. facebook made a profit of $560 million in the first six months of this year. beingr is nowhere near profitable, losing almost $80 million in 2012. someone who will not be losing money, the cofounder and former ceo, evan williams, the largest shareholder with 12% of the shares. that would make him a paper billionaire after the ipo.

as his facebook rival, who made a cool $19 billion when his company went public. editor, jamie robertson, is with me. i will ask you the dumbest question of all -- how exactly does twitter make money? its moneys 87% of from advertising. advertising is the area where they are hoping to capitalize on that profit, adding more revenues and bringing in more profit. their revenues have been growing very fast over the last few years. we are doubling basically pretty much every year, doubling their revenues. they are still making it a lot. is different for facebook because people do not tend to think they will spend much time on twitter. problemis where the comes from advertising. how will you make it more profitable? you could easily swap your twitter -- swamp your twitter

message. awaye are going to run from that, and that is what they are worried about because they have not found a formula that works that well. buzz.t they do have is many millions have a twitter account and a twitter address, and i hope -- and they hope people will follow it. but the point about the buzz, to it is hard to qualify how much that is worth. >> people may be using twitter -- where itwe speak is used most is on television. if they could work out a way to blend advertising into television watching -- they have not figured this out yet -- so that when people are watching something on tv, get the advertising in, coordinated with the television. that is one area. if you could slip the wouldising in there that

not frighten people away -- because people do get frightened. they don't like advertising. they don't like things being stuck into their face. they like watching you. >> thank you for that, too. make at know if it will profit. thank you very much indeed. when the new pope was elected this year, he chose the name francis to honor saint francis who vowed to live a life of poverty -- of property -- of poverty. he hopes the church will do the same. today he will visit the tomb of st. francis. october 4 is the catholic feast day for st. francis. renounced his well. speaking earlier, the pope said the world did not care about those most in need, including children dying of hunger or refugees. he went on to say he wants the

catholic church to follow the example of francis and everyone from the lowliest priest to the pontiff himself. they must strip themselves of, arrogance and pride. trying to lead by example, he is having lunch with the poor at a charity center. you can see the crowd still gathered outside the church in sec -- in assisi. on gmt because coming up in the next half-hour -- >> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation, newman's own foundation, giving all profits to charity and pursuing the common good for over 30 years, and union bank. and united health care. .> my customers can shop around they can also work that way with

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i'm worried that this kind of leakage may occur again. >> he said he wants tepco to send personnel from other power plants to assist with the work at the fukushima plant. >> i'm terribly sorry for the mistakes we have made. we mishandled the leaking wastewater, and that is affecting the environment. >> he said tepco had recently changed its system for managing contaminated wastewater and that workers had not yet learned to use it. he said he would deploy every possible resource to deal with the problem. tepco had found they had pumped too much water into a tank causing it to overflow.

hundreds of tons of tainted water build up at the factory every day. the decontamination system they're hoping to use has suffered another set back. plant managers say an alarm went off on friday morning saying something was wrong with the alps system. they're trying to figure out ha happened. they resumed the system last friday but it has been shut down on monday. a rubber mat was clogging the drain and workers forgot to remove it after inspecting the inside of the tank. authorities in washington are trying to figure out why a woman drove into a security barricade and then led police on a car chase through the streets of the u.s. capitol. the driver was later shot dead. the incident began when the

driver tried to ram her vehicle through the barricade at the white house. she then sped away to capitol hill with police in pursuit. the police shot and killed the driver. the child who was in the car has been taken into protective custody. >> there were about four gunshots, at which point i ducked. but i did see this black, two door car race out of the area followed by the police cars. >> boom, sound, come from the car. i thought it was an accident. >> the incident put washington on stand still. people at the capitol and nearby buildings were evacuated. the lawmakers have been locked in a dispute which has caused the partial shut down of the government. officials say the event is not linked with terrorism. >> the report of jobs