is eu attitudes to matteo salvini as the figurehead of the populist government.n africa, allowing the eu to distinguish between economic migrants who in theory would be sent back home and those with a right to asylum or refugee status who would be allowed into europe, is not new. a while back, emmanuel macron of france said processing centres should be set up in libya, because of course these days libya is the go to place in africa for migrants to come to do wa nt to africa for migrants to come to do want to get on eight smuggling boat to europe. but of course libya remains largely lawless, and you'd have to ask permission from its neighbours, so it is complicated. there are also human rights concerns. even if eu leaders sign up to this idea at the summit, it can't happen overnight, it is not a magical solution to the migrant crisis. but in fact have more mainstream eu leaders like emmanuel macron and angela merkel who question whether matteo salvini is sincere in wanting to solve the migrant crisis. he wins so many political points with it at home, so while acro

matteo salvini says the country should stop being the refugee camp of europe.e at this centre for migrants who have just arrived in sicily, matteo salvini's message was clear. enough of this region being the refugee camp of europe. he wants more deportations and to discourage people coming to italy at all. translation: it's not enough to reduce landings. we need to increase expulsions. last year we deported just 7000 immigrants. at this rate, it'll take a century. we must open deportation centres in each region, making stronger agreements with countries of origin, and renegotiate italy's role in europe. this country is the main destination for people crossing the sea from north africa to europe, and many here argue it has placed a strain on the economy. and, while there are those who say refugees and migrants are still welcome, it seems the voices against our louder. the country's new populist government was sworn in last week having promised a tough line on immigration —— are louder. matteo salvini wants other countries to share the load when it comes to refug

so while more nationalist politicians for him, others in the uk look at matteo salvini and his ideaseds of birds caught up in an oil spill over the weekend in the dutch port of rotterdam. a norwegian tanker ruptured its hull on saturday. hundreds of swans, geese, cormorants and gulls have been affected. lebo diseko reports. a desperate effort to save some of this port's most vulnerable wildlife. hundreds of birds covered in oil after the huge spillage. this tanker ruptured its hull, sending more than 200 tonnes into the harbour. it happened on saturday and officials tried to contain it, but by sunday, the oil had spread to two nearby waterways. rescuers say they've been overwhelmed by the number of contaminated birds — at least 800 over a ten kilometre radius. hundreds are still thought to have been in the water. birds were being taken to other centres in nearby towns, but by monday, a special help centre had been set up in a car park —— to deal with the sheer numbers affected. the norwegian company that owns the tanker says it regrets the spillage and it has set up an investigation

matteo salvini has called on other european countries to do more to help, complaining: his right wingration. it now appears mr salvini is putting those promises into practice. caroline rigby, bbc news. the football world cup gets underway in russia on thursday, with the hosts taking on saudi arabia in moscow. while thousands of fans will travel to the country, billions will be watching around the globe, giving russia a golden opportunity to boost its image, after several recent diplomatic controversies. 0ur moscow correspondent steve rosenberg has more. russia's singing grannies are on a mission to give russia a friendlier face for the world cup. these bubbly babushkas have penned a world cup anthem and produced a pop video to go with it. the message to foreign football fans, "you have nothing to fear from russia." "i won't scare you," anna says. "i'll hug you, i'll kiss you, i'll sing and dance for you." russians will even smile at you. ahead of the world cup, train conductors here have been taught to forget the frowns and give foreigners big, shiny smiles to match the big, shiny new

in italy, the interior minister matteo salvini has called for reception centres for asylum seekers torossing the mediterranean. 0ur europe editor katya adler is in rome and gave us more details about what's being proposed. as an idea, having processing centres in africa, allowing the eu to distinguish between economic migrants who would in theory be sent straight back home and those with a right to asylum and refugees status who would legally be allowed into europe is not new. a while back, and emmanuel macron said processing centres should be set up like that in libya. these days, libya is the go to place in africa for migrants to come to get on the people smugglers spoke to europe but libya remains largely lawless and even if you want to put up the centre is on its borders you how to ask permission from its neighbours so it's complicated and there are human rights concerns is that even if eu leaders sign up to this idea, it can't happen overnight, it is not that magical solution to your‘s mara —— migrant crisis but you have mainstream leaders like a manual macron and angel michael w

matteo salvini said tunisia was exporting its convicts to italy.--matteo salvini said italy fushould stop being the regee camp of europe. reporter: at this center for ants who have just arriv in sicily, matteo savlini's message was clear -- enough of this region being the refugee capital of europe, discouraging people coming to italyt all. >> it is notnough to reduce landings. we need to increase expulsions. last year we deported just 7000 immigrants. at this rate, it wl take a century. we must open deportation at each region, making stronger agreements with countries of igin, and renegotiating italy's role in europe. reporter: this country is the main destination for peopleng croshe sea from north africa to europe, and many here argue it's placed a strain on the economy. whilst there are those who say refugees and migrants are still welcome, it seems the voices against are louder. the country's new populist stgovernment was sworn in week having promised a tough line on immigration. across the sea in tunisia, the human cost of trying to make it to

third to refusal this month now the policy is being driven by the far right interior minister matteo salvini charlie rangel reports from sicily. well here tanya and this is the last ship that brought in rescued migrants two weeks ago since then interior minister matteo salvini has closed italy's ports and at the summit there was no discussion as to what will happen the next time a european boat carrying rescued migrants is left stranded in the mediterranean instead italy's prime minister just emerged from the summit saying italy is no longer alone threatening to use his veto if there was not an agreement that suited italy he did and because of that italians believe they got some concessions but nothing will change if we don't play hardball on grey's our voices will never get anything. under the new e.u. agreement italy could host voluntarily new migrant centers that would process all arrivals and determine which are genuine refugees and which are illegal migrants. us. this country already has refugee camps the difference is that these arrivals would no longer be subject to the dublin regulat

matteo salvini says the country should stop being the "refugee camp of europe."diseko has more. at this centre for migrants who have just arrived in sicily, matteo salvini's message was clear — enough of this region being the refugee camp of europe. he wants more deportations, and to discourage people coming to italy at all. translation: it's not enough to reduce landings. we need to increase expulsions. last year, we deported just 7,000 immigrants. at this rate, it'll take a century. we must open deportation centres in each region, making stronger agreements with countries of origin, and renegotiate italy's role in europe. this country is the main destination for people crossing the sea from north africa to europe, and many here argue it has placed a strain on the economy. and, while there are those who say refugees and migrants are still welcome, it seems the voices against are louder. the country's new, populist government was sworn in last week, having promised a tough line on immigration. salvini wants other countries to share the load when it comes to refug

wins points at home but while more nationalist politicians applaud him, others in the eu look at matteo salvinirael — the first member of the british royal family to undertake an official visit to the country. he will also visit the palestinian territories. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell is travelling with prince william on his five day tour of the middle east, and sent this report. it says most testing foreign visit so it says most testing foreign visit so far, becoming the first member of the british royal family so far, becoming the first member of the british royalfamily to make an official visit, first to israel where he arrived yesterday evening and later in the week, to the palestinian territories. as a senior royal, william is distant from politics but in the middle east and especially when it comes to israel and the palestinians, just about any action by visiting vip can be seen to have connotations so for william, this is a challenge. it's a visit which officials have entrusted to william because he is the prestige of being a future king, he has experienced now of foreign v

italy's interior minister matteo salvini is in libya for talks on europe's migration crisis salvini tweeted pictures of himself meeting is libyan counterpart in tripoli he had a hardline stance on refugees and migrants on sunday he ordered foreign charities to stop rescuing people from waters off libya's coasts and we're waiting to hear from the interior minister matteo salvini and the libyan prime minister. they're due to speak in tripoli in this hour we'll take you to that news conference as and when it happens of course. and on saturday if he is government propose a new migration plan during an emergency meeting of sixteen leaders in brussels they were hoping to get some solutions on the table ahead of a bigger summit later this week from brussels has dominick casey. as they posed for the cameras in brussels the central question being posed to e.u. leaders was if they could find a solution to the migrant crisis for some this is appeared to become decisive over recent weeks angle america has had to concede ground to her domestic allies on sunday there was a further concession at least in

italy's deputy prime minister matteo salvini has vowed to increase collaboration with libya to deal with europe's migration crisis the leader of the far right league party is in tripoli a day after libya's coast guard picked up another nine hundred forty eight migrants and refugees in the mediterranean sea he wants foreign charities to back off and let me be a take care of rescue operations. because we believe that it should only be the libyan authorities who control libyan waters. non-government organizations from these borders who want to replace governments and help the little immigrants. but we reassured italy in europe that libya is ready to deal with migration we agree in many areas when it comes to illegal migration however we refused completely uncut to go to the creation of any camps inside libya for illegal migrants this issue is forbidden under libyan law i mean it does not apply in any rights aspect algeria meanwhile has been accused of abandoning more than thirteen thousand migrants in the sahara desert without food or water the associated press news agency has collected vid

italy's interior minister matteo salvini has visited libya as part of efforts to stop migrants reaching italy's shores in tripoli salvini called for the creation of centers to screen asylum seekers italy's new governments closed its ports to charity ships operating in the mediterranean coming up next it's with. candid testimonies from live in these women who are staying single longer. what's causing this cultural shift in a society already be set by religious and social tensions. and are there implications for the arab world as a whole. no single by choice on how to see about. that. when i started training if we are saying that oh i had one leg. how can he play football. but i did not i'm not listening to anybody. it will be food it is. because. of the. house. and how to run. the boss you know just because. you're not allowed to. go. to. theory . if. i wanted to make sense of. my time. then i still think you. i thought. the war was. tonight. betty and i want to join to meet you. when we finished the two sentenced to kano. started. on. the mission were i time the ability. of man i was th

, they have been in direct confrontation with brussels in particular matteo salvini went down to sicily and talked about the idea that he was sending convicts to italy. he was expected to go to luxembourg to talk about the overhaul of the dublin rules about migrants landing on italian shores he's not going so he can be around for the vote over the next two days. he's sending a delegation. he wants to see a major overhaul spearheaded by the italians to european migration rules then luigi di maio, of course, he is now the labor and economic development minister he's been talking about pension reforms, those pension reforms we saw under mario monte, talking about how he wants to roll those back and get the funding to do so from europe he says he wants to take that money from europe to u his language now, of course, giuseppe conte says he will be traveling to the g7 in canada, where that relationship with europe will be on full display when he has a bilateral meeting with german chancellor angela merkel in canada on iday, karen, a conversation that we will likely hear a lot of detail about

matteo salvini was asked why this ship was given permission. here's his answer.e italian coast guard. foreign s&l with foreign flags of foreign investors will no longer dock in italian ports. i've already said it and i repeated. emmanuel macron is visiting rome. he will surely be a will to deceive all of those people. as you heard there, mr salvini references that emmanuel macron is in rome. he's there in part three to renew an ancient tradition by receiving the title of first and only honorary canon at the vatican. there's a political dimension to this as well. last week, mr macron accused italy of cynicism and irresponsibility for refusing to let the aquarius dock. a little while ago he held a press conference — and was sounding a bit more diplomatic. translation: i can confirm that france will be one of the few member states that will pick up people on the left find ship today. and french officials aren't already on their way to malta to be able to carry out the mission. more on those political tensions in europe in a moment. first, gavin lee is on board the r

now to some of the other stories making news around the world is it is new interior minister matteo salvini has visited a migrant detention center in sicily a week before miscible elections on the island region now outside the center of protesters chanted slogans against salvini and held banners reading welcome refugees so really is head of the far right party which has demanded a crackdown on migrants and refugees. at least forty six migrants were killed when their boat sank off the news is solid and coast making it one of the worst migrant boat accidents in recent years sixty seven others were rescued near the city of facts according to tunisian officials. officials say a whale that died had eight kilograms of plastic trash most of it shopping bags in its stomach the animal died despite a five day effort to save it they said the plastic made the will sick and unable to hunt. the russian space capsule has landed safely in ca's a stand carrying three us generals from russia the u.s. and japan they were returning from a one hundred sixty day mission on the international space station another

now to some of the other stories making news around the world israelis new interior minister matteo salvini has visited a migrant detention center in sicily a week before municipal elections on the island region outside the center protesters chanted slogans against salvini and held banners reading welcome refugees. is head of the far right league party which has demanded a crackdown on my gran's and refugees. london is marking the one year anniversary of a terror attack on a london bridge eight people were killed and forty eight others injured with three men drove a van into the desk trans of the tourist landmark a memorial service at south where cathedral has been held for victims and their relatives and their families. thai officials say a whale that died had eight kilograms of plastic trash most of it shopping bags in its stomach the animal died despite a five day effort to save it now they said the plastic made the whale sick and unable to hunt. initial results from slovenia as parliamentary elections point to a major win for the country's right wing opposition the southeastern european

look at some of the other stories making news around the world italy's new interior minister matteo salvini has visited a migrant attentions scenting sicily a week before municipal elections on the island region outside the center protesters chanted slogans against salvini unhealed banas reading welcome refugees slovenia's head of the far right party which has demanded a crackdown on migrants and refugees. london is marking the one hand your best story of a terror attack on london bridge eight people were killed and forty eight injured when three men drove a van into pedestrians on the tourist landmark a memorial service at southwark cathedral has been held for victims and their families. ty officials say a whale that died had eight kilograms of plastic trash most of it shopping bags in its stomach. despite a five day effort to save it and they said the plastic made the whale sick and unable to hunt. in slovenia the country's right wing opposition appears to have won parliamentary elections of nearly all votes counted the southeastern european country which used to be part of the form of th

italy's hard line interior minister matteo salvini wants to cut off the flow of migrants before they even put to sea he's been in libya calling for reception centers to screen arrivals in neighboring chad and sudan. where. the attack and government will support the need to protect the external borders south of libya because libya and italy along cannot sustain the economic and social costs of this immigration images which. you get to see what. libya also wants to see the migrants dealt with elsewhere. and who do they leave the. we agree with the europeans on many matters related to illegal immigration. however we categorically reject the existence of any migrant centers inside libya and cooling their human. meanwhile the migrants waiting on board the lifeline can only hope they will be allowed to land somewhere soon. the n.g.o.s says. and let's get more now on that story i'm joined now by from sea watch a nonprofit organization that conducts search and rescue operations in the mediterranean and she is actually at the port in malta and has been in touch with the staff from lifeline th

italy's new interior minister matteo salvini has visited a migrant attention center in sicily one week before municipal elections on the island region outside of the center protesters chanting slogans against selby and held banners reading welcome refugees. as head of the far right league party which has demanded a crackdown on migrants and refugees. nine migrants six of them children have drowned after their boat capsized off of turkey turkish coast guards rescued another five people the boat was headed for greece which has seen a surge in migrants from turkey this year forty six migrants drowned in a separate sinking off the coast of tunisia. well now we turn to the battle against the so-called islamic state which has been one of the most challenging struggles internationally in recent years you'll recall that the group captured much of a rock and syria much of the territory there and really had a reign of terror well since then the group has drawn international condemnation but it has also become attractive to some including a group of german women who joined to the so-called islami

one yet all of people gone missing in advance and got it in the way italy's interior minister matteo salvini has visited libya as part of efforts to stop migrants reaching italy's shores so when you called for the creation of processing centers to screen asylum seekers he also voted to help the libyan government patrol its territorial waters italy's new government has closed its ports to charity ships operating in the mediterranean drawing criticism from rights groups and other e.u. countries. south sudan's president says he hopes renewed talks with his rival will bring an immediate end to the four and a half year civil war here is attending the latest round of talks with his former deputy rep much on this time in the sudanese capital khartoum negotiations hosted by ethiopia last week failed to achieve a breakthrough the un has given both sides until the end of the month to reach a peace deal or face sanctions. mexicans vote in their presidential election next sunday with a new leader guaranteed current president enrique pena nieto is ineligible for a second term under mexico's constitution

see sick italy's hardline interior minister matteo salvini wants to cut off the flow of migrants before they even put to sea he's been in libya calling for reception centers to screen arrivals in neighboring chad the shia and sudan. government will support the need to protect the external borders south of libya because libya and italy along cannot sustain the economic and social costs of this immigration images. libya also wants to see the migrants dealt with elsewhere. who do they leave the. we agree with the europeans on many matters related to illegal immigration. how do you however we categorically reject the existence of any migrant centers inside libya and the cool their human. friends now says a european solution is near malta is reportedly willing to open its support to the migrants the ngo says they will run out of food and water in two days. i'll get more from v.w. correspondent banned in brussels welcome back so malta initially refused the lifeline. permission to dock why does it now appear to be changing its mind. but the bargaining and bickering on the back of these margins

speaking in sicily, matteo salvini, who heads the far—right league party, said his country needs centresfacilitate the expulsion of illegal immigrants. critics have denounced his plans for large—scale repatriations. pope francis has called for an end to violence in nicaragua, where at least 15 people were killed this week in protests against the president daniel ortega. he said the catholic church always favoured dialogue— and an active commitment to respect of life and freedom. the home secretary, sajid javid, has said it may be time to raise the cap on the number of skilled workers allowed to enter the uk. it would be part of an overall review of the government's immigration policy ahead of brexit. businesses and parts of the public sector such as the nhs have been arguing they're struggling to recruit enough skilled workers. our political correspondent chris mason has the details. parts of the nhs are in desperate need of more doctors, but the number of skilled non—eu workers granted uk visas is capped. today, the new home secretary acknowledged that policy should be re—examined. when

matteo salvini, the leader of the anti-immigrant leg, has been very crititical of france in the sesense that he accuses france f toling to do enough in libya stop the flow of migrarants, to ststabilize the country and leae italy alone to handle this problem. this is not something going to go away soon. what we are seeing from this new italian admiministrationon is zero-tolerance for italy to have to h handle this influx of migrants on their own. anchor: speaking of those people trying to reach european shores, can you tell us about the situation in terms of where these folks and people are in theit josephine: we had a new arrival in catania. an italian coast guard vessel brought in more than 900 migrants who landed there this morning. that is an interesting distinction since we have had such an uproar over the fate of the aquarius. the interior minister says this is different because this boat had been brought in by an italian vessel and not by an ngo . he wants to shut out the ngo movie said are running a business of trafficking across the mediterranean. so this boat has landed with 90

matteo salvini says the ship had loaded the migrants in the libyan waters, but the ngo says it conducted the rescue in international waters. an israeli court has indicted the wife of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu for misusing public funds. sarah netanyahu is accused of falsifying household expenses to obtain $100,000 for private catering. her husband is also under investigation on suspicion of corruption offenses. germany has been found guilty of violating eu regulations by failing to reduce high nitrate levels in its groundwater. the over use of fertilizers in farming is thought to be to blame for levels that impose a health risk. germany could be fined by the european commission. amnesty international's turkish chairperson will be in prison until at least november of this year. sent to prison last year for alleged links to a cleric that ankara accuses of orchestra in a failed coup. amnesty international has dismissed the entire case, calling it baseless. the turkish government has refused to allow a member of the german parliament to enter the country as an observer for thi

one of them is the leader of the far right league party matteo salvini.ave arrived since 2013. and critics say the eu has not done enough to share responsibility for their welfare. matteo salvini travelled to sicily on sunday. here's what he had to say. translation: it is not enough to reduce landings, we need to increase expulsion5. la5t reduce landings, we need to increase expulsion5. last year it was 7000 immigrants. at this rate i'll take a century. we must open deportation centres in each region, making 5trong agreements with countries of origin and renegotiate italy's role in europe. tunisia has summoned the italian amba55ador to register its profound astonishment at those remarks. here's james reynolds again — on how the politicians are struggling to influence the flow of migrants. you may remember that in recent years a you may remember that in recent yea r5 a lot of you may remember that in recent years a lot of migrants have departed from libya. but last summer, 2070, italy, the destination country on the other side of the mediterranean, did a d

italy's new interior minister matteo salvini is in libya to drum up support for the idea.. translation: on thursday in brussels we willjointly translation: on thursday in brussels we will jointly support the translation: on thursday in brussels we willjointly support the libyan authorities in setting up reception and identification centres in the south of libya to help libya as well as italy to block migration. here's why this is big issue in italy. this shows the number of migrants arriving in europe's mediterranean nations. italy takes the most in — and its new populist government wants that to change. and certainly its making itself felt. this is german ngo ship lifeline. it has more than 230 migrants on board. it has been blocked by italy and malta from docking. it's now moored about 25km off malta. this is danish container ship alexander maersk. it's near the sicilian port of pozzallo with 108 migrants. they were rescued on friday. it's not clear where the boat will now go. and last week we talked a lot about the search and rescue ship aquarius — it was carrying more

the new italian interior minister, matteo salvini, who is leader of italy's far—right league, has calledut the maltese say they aren't legally responsible. new measures designed to improve patient safety, as well as to protect doctors and nurses when mistakes are made are being unveiled this morning. the announcement follows concerns that were raised following the case of dr hadiza bawa—garba, who was struck off after being found guilty of the manslaughter by gross negligence of a six—year—old boy. 0ur health correspondent, dominic hughes, has more. the death of six—year—old jack adcock in 2011 is the tragic backdrop to today's announcement. the doctor in charge whenjack died, doctor hadiza bawa—garba, admitted a catalogue of errors in his treatment but her conviction for gross negligence manslaughter and subsequently being barred from practising shocked many doctors and nurses, leading to fears around how medical staff are expected to admit to and learn from mistakes. among the measures being introduced are the investigation of every death by a medical examiner or coroner. data on docto

italy's new far right interior minister matteo salvini says he will not back down from a controversialroposal to conduct a census of his country's roma community. the proposal has been sharply criticized by his coalition partner, the populist five-star movement. its leader described it as quote, unconstitutional. flash floods in the financial capital of ivory coast have left at least 18 people dead and displaced hundreds more. torrential rains washed away homes while sinkholes formed on some r roads, causing chaos. heavy rain is expected to persist for several more days. chinese president xi jinping has called on the u.s. and north korea to implement measures agreed at last week's summit between kim jong-un and u.s. president donald trump. xi made the comments after meetings with the north korean leader in beijing. china is north korea's most important ally. now to the united states. anger is growing on both sides of the political aisle in the united states tonight as the president defends his zero-tolerance border policy of separating migrant children from their parents. the number of

government is also sending out a hostile message to illegal immigrants the new interior minister matteo salvini whom some described as italy's answer to donald trump has said his country will not become a refugee camp and that newcomers need to make other plans if you know treatment is usually. not. you know really. speaking and this is silly import of tanya he promised to reduce the number of illegal immigrants arriving in the country also as you just saw it pledged to get to work on deportations a policy that is proving divisive in italy. i think the soviet writes i hope he stops these illegal migrant royal ones what can they do here they are people without a house they have nothing. in the italian government today each country is composed of diverse i think groups and diverse people becomes completely closed immigrant traffic they have i think it's ok to take a break he has to set rules migrants can come in discriminately they will create many problems in italy there are many problems already for example there is a lot of poverty and there is not enough jobs on the support i'm sure that so m

they are really the fighting force of the hard right political movement, and particularly matteo salviniis going to push this government to the right as much as he can. he promised he would raise roma cap's over the italian capital. he was fantasizing about segregating the train carriages -- racially, i mean -- on the metro in milan. he says he wants to spend 5 billionth of the country uses to house and take care of migrants from other purposes. and so on and so forth. he really wants to make people's life hell here, and he said he wants to deport half a million of those my friends back to their home countries. -- those migrants back to their home countries. that is the intention of what he wants to do as interior minister. brent: in terms of having a plan, it sounds like he does have a plan. would he be able to follow through on any of these ideas? barbara: within the country he can do a lot. he can set the police out against migrants from he can poison the public atmosphere, because italy was relatively tolerant towards these people. he can really make a life hell. you can put them in

is the last ship that brought in rescued migrants two weeks ago since then interior minister matteo salvini has closed italy's ports and at the summit there was no discussion as to what will happen the next time a european boat carrying rescued migrants is left stranded in the mediterranean instead italy's prime minister just emerged from the summit saying italy is no longer alone he went in threatening to use his veto it if there was not an agreement that suited italy he did and because of that italians believe they got some concessions but nothing will change if we don't play hardball and raise our voices we never get anything so broad any longer lives. under the new e.u. agreement italy could host voluntarily new migrant centers that would process all arrivals and determine which are genuine refugees and which are illegal migrants to the us. this country already has refugee camps the difference is that these arrivals would no longer be subject to the dublin regulations italy would not be responsible for them soley the idea is they could be divided up between other member states but again

extraordinary week in which t italian government says they cannot come to sicily, and interior minister matteo salvini said they were not welcome in the ture because they were a taxi service. ship, the samer thing, the lifeline picking up migrants and the italians saying no as well. let me bring in anton, who has been the operations manager. tell me about effectively happens now and what happens next. big questions. >> we cannot reduce the capacitd on b 150 people maximum. italiansen you hit thesa that you are a taxi service for migrants, what do you say to that? >> of cose we are not a taxi service. we are here to provide an answer to people in distress. people are unsafe at sea. there is no proper rescue capacities, so ngo's are here to fill a gap and to provide medical rescue service to those people, nothing else. gavin: it is looking like it will be the earlyours of sunday morning that the ship will arrive. until the resolution is agreed between european leadese, there is ne of where the migrants could end up. jane: the peacekeeping mission in the west african mission of mali ranks as the most dan

italy's deputy prime minister matteo salvini has told the bbc that charity—run search and rescue shipsmes as malta agreed to allow a german ngo rescue ship, lifeline, to come to port, after six days with more than 200 migrants stranded onboard. gavin lee sent us this report. the aquarius is currently off the coast here and that's as far as we can go, because the italians today has said the charity run ship and other ngos ships cannot go to italian ports and in the words of my matteo salvini. the ship from doctor without borders and we have followed their progress in the past six days, they've been in the search and rescue zone way to rescue migrants off of libya and we have heard of migrant boats in distress, but each time the italians cord knitting the operations instructed the libyan coast guard to carry out the rescue is an intercept them and take them back to a libyan detention centre. we're talking about 1000 migrants at sea. they say they are being a norrodin not taking distress calls. the position now is that most are saying they cannot go to port and italians are saying the sam

matteo salvini, who leads the right—wing populist party, the league, asked maltese authorities to acceptred to risk the perilous sea crossing from africa in search of a better life. most are not refugees but economic migrants, attracted to europe for its wealth and jobs. coming from across sub—saharan africa, they board boats in libya, often with the aid of people smugglers. bound for italy, it's a dangerous journey, smugglers. bound for italy, it's a dangerousjourney, which smugglers. bound for italy, it's a dangerous journey, which many fail to complete. yet more evidence of this on sunday as the charity announced it had picked up more than 600 migrants in six operations off the coast of libya. italy's new interior ministry, matty 0 salvini, refused permission for the rescue vessel to dockin permission for the rescue vessel to dock in its ports, calling on malta to help instead. the maltese authorities argue the migrants are under italian jurisdictions because ofa under italian jurisdictions because of a deal between rome and the libyan coastguard. that agreement has led to a drop in a

it's matteo salvini's latest attack against groups operating in the mediterranean, and comes as a germanl picked up more than 200 people on thursday. a south korean court has ruled that the killing of dogs for meat is illegal. it's a potentially landmark ruling that could see the practice outlawed altogether. the case was brought by an animal rights group against a dog farm operator. abouti million dogs are thought to be eaten every year, but consumption has declined. the chief executive of the intel has resigned. he violated the non— fraternisation policy. his successor has been named as robert swan, currently the chief financial officer. and, koko the gorilla, who became famous after learning a version of sign language, has died at the age of 46. in these pictures here she's with flea from the group the red hot chili peppers in 2016. koko was born at the san francisco zoo, where she was trained by her instructor to communicate with hand signals. she was also one of the few non—humans to keep a pet. to the world cup in russia, and the biggest shock of the tournament so far — lionel mess

populist movement in europe, you can name people like people like viktor 0rban, chancellor kurtz, matteo salvinigue, which says it wants to register all roma in italy and deport those who do not have regular papers. excuse me, you can continue with the quote. may i give you, may i... mr strolz is just about to take a holiday from political life. he was in politics for about four, five years. and you know what mr matthias strolz has was also been repeating in the last few months, he was warning against civil war in europe because of the asylum crisis. this gentleman you have quoted is talking about that. i want you to address his point there is, right now, a dangerous nationalist populist movement sweeping europe with elements inside your own government with connections to the far right, the extreme right, members of the freedom party... it is distasteful to mention what you are coming up with. it is just a statement without concrete examples. can you give me a concrete example of ministers of the freedom party, i am not a member of it, but ministers, including the vice chancellor, when you canno

is the last ship that brought in rescued migrants two weeks ago since then interior minister matteo salvini has closed italy's ports and at the summit there was no discussion as to what will happen the next time a european boat carrying rescued migrants is left stranded in the mediterranean instead italy's prime minister just emerged from the summit saying italy is no longer alone he went in threatening to use his veto if there was not an agreement that suited italy he did and because of that italians believe they got some concessions but nothing will change if we don't play hardball andre's our voices we never get anything so long. under the new e.u. agreement italy could host voluntarily new migrant centers that would process all arrivals and determine which are genuine refugees and which are illegal migrants to be sent back these would be finals and managed by the e.u. this country already has refugee camps the difference is that these arrivals would no longer be subject to the drop in regulations italy would not be responsible for them solely the idea is they could be divided up between

italy's new interior minister matteo salvini has visited a migrant detention center in sicily a week before miscible elections on the island region outside of the center protesters chanted slogans against me and held batters reading welcome refugees salvini is the head of the nationalist league party which has demanded a crackdown on migrants and refugees. more than fifty people have died in two boat accidents while trying to cross the mediterranean nine migrants six of them children drowned when their boat capsized off of turkey coast guards rescued another five people and the bodies of at least forty eight people have been found on the coast of tunisia following a separate sinking many more are still missing. a graduation ceremony has taken place at the florida high school where a former student shot and killed seventeen people in february for families accepted diplomas on behalf of loved ones killed in the massacre the attack at the marjory stoneman douglas high school in hartland gave rise to a nationwide campaign for gun control. before its defeat the so-called islamic state cap

is the last ship that brought in rescued migrants two weeks ago since then interior minister matteo salvini has closed italy's ports and at the summit there was no discussion as to what will happen the next time a european boat carrying rescued migrants is left stranded in the mediterranean instead italy's prime minister just every country emerged from the summit saying italy is no longer alone he went in threatening to use his veto it if there was not an agreement that suited italy he did and because of that italians believe they got some concessions but nothing will change if we don't play hardball andre's our voices we never get anything so brabazon really long lives any. under the new e.u. agreement italy could host voluntarily new migrant centers that would process all arrivals and determine which are genuine refugees and which are illegal migrants to . this country already has refugee camps the difference is that these arrivals would no longer be subject to the dublin regulations italy would not be responsible for them soley the idea is they could be divided up between other member st

the italian deputy prime minister, matteo salvini, has since stopped all foreign—flagged, charity—runentering italian waters, accusing them of encouraging people smuggling. over the past ten days, the bbc has been on board, and witnessed the crew travel back to the search zone and carry out practice rescue drills, while the italian authorities excluded them from helping. they instead instructed the eu—trained libyan coastguard to intercept all migrant boats in distress. as the team returns to land for a crew change and refuelling, they are exhausted and frustrated at the political efforts to keep them from working off the libyan coast. and they say the lack of access to nearby ports has effectively rendered their operations futile, and they're calling on eu leaders to consider the consequences. this is where migrants are taken, detention centres in tripoli, condemned by the un as inhumane. eu leaders say they are working on a longer—term solution, but that might not involve ngo ships. the aquarius crew is considering whether it can continue. if the authorities controlling the search—a

for italy and the new administration is promising big changes the incoming interior minister matteo salvini head of the far right league wants to expel hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants he's recently talked about setting up detention centers across the country while he's equally ambitious rival five star leader luigi to my old who the labor and industry minister has promised a basic minimum income then this is how italy will interact with the european union . a euro skeptic prevented from being economy minister just days ago it would be in charge of e.u. affairs and giovanni tria the replacement economy minister has criticised germany and called for changes in e.u. fiscal rules to allow more state investment three it can be a bit more of a diplomat and they played a good cop bad cop you know role play in any case what we have to expect from the two men and from this government is a much more vocal a standing of the things he wouldn't say against europe but in face of europe and this is what is worrying and somehow international observers. the new cabinet should easily post a vo

stories now that are making headlines around the world italy's new far right interior minister matteo salvini says that he will not back down from a controversial proposal to conduct a census of his country's roma community the proposal has been sharply criticized by selby's coalition partner the populist five star movement its leader described it as quote unconstitutional flash floods in the financial capital of ivory coast have left at least eighteen people dead and displaced hundreds more original rains washed away homes while sinkholes formed on some words causing chaos and heavy rains are expected to persist for several more days chinese president xi jinping has called on the u.s. and north korea to implement measures agreed at last week's summit between kim jong un and us president. she made the comments after meetings with the north korean leader in beijing china is north korea's most important ally. now in the united states anger is growing on both sides of the political aisle in the u.s. as president trump defends his zero tolerance border policy of separating migrant children from t

italy's interior minister matteo salvini said, "my task is to defend the borders of this wonderful country which cannot become a refugee camp." veese recent episodes have exposed the deepening divisions in europe over migrants, even though the u.n. says the numbers anriving by sea are dropping from more than one million in 2015 to around 40,000 so far this year. anti-immigration sentiment has fueled the rise of far-right nationalists in italy, austria, and poland. and in hungary, which has built border fences to keep migrants out, parliament passed laws this week threatening to jail people who help asylum seekers. several countries have said they'll boycott an emergency summit on migration set for prnday. italy's prime minister says he will be attending, but only after being persuaded by german chancellor angela merkel. ceaine. >> quijano: roxana saberi, thank you. coming up, she worked for a drug maker accused of fueling the opioid crisis and claims she was trained to use shady sales tactics. later, is a supervolcano about to blow at a u.s. tourist hot spot? ...food ...and farxiga, the pi

ports the third refusal this month the policy is being driven by a far right interior minister matteo salvini as charlie angela reports from sicily . we're here in kenya and this is the last ship that brought in rescued migrants two weeks ago since then interior minister mackay without any has closed italy's ports and at the summit there was no discussion as to what will happen the next time a european boat carrying rescued like men. it's left stranded in the mediterranean instead italy's prime minister just emerged from the summit saying italy is no longer alone threatening to use his veto if there was not an agreement that he did and because of that italians believe they got some concessions but nothing will change if we don't play hardball on gray's our voices we never get anything so long . under the new e.u. agreement italy could host voluntarily new migrant centers that would process all arrivals and determine which are genuine refugees and which are illegal migrants. us. this country already has refugee camps the difference is that these arrivals would no longer be subject to the dubli

has sent a tough message for illegal immigrants coming to the country the new interior minister matteo salvini also described by many as italy's answer to donald trump says it's time to pack your bags and barely get out if there is really a freak out enough. for you and. i think he's going to. be speaking there in the sicilian port of qatar near where he promised to reduce the number of newcomers he also pledged to get to work on the decor taishan of illegal migrants policy that's led to division within it. i think the soviets rights i hope he stops these illegal migrant arrival ones what can they do here they are people without a house they have nothing severe so very should not be in the italian government today each country is composed of diverse ethnic groups and diverse people you can't completely close immigrant traffic. aopa i think it's ok to take a break he has to set rules migrants can't come in discriminately they will create many problems in italy there are many problems already for example there is a lot of poverty and there is not enough jobs promised but i'm sure that so many wi

carrying more than six hundred migrants rescued from the mediterranean italy's new interior minister matteo salvini said the country will no longer accept so-called immigration the ship aquarius operated by a german based charity which says it's now searching for a safe harbor. around three thousand people have rallied in the romanian capital bucharest to protest moves by the government to dismiss the country's chief anti corruption prosecutor the rally came a day after supporters of the center left government marched against a legit abuses by the anti corruption agency. a fire has ripped through a warehouse in iraq where ballot papers were being stored ahead of a recount authorities were preparing to retaliate some ten million votes following allegations of electoral fraud prime minister hyderabadi claimed the blaze was part of a deliberate plot to harm iraq's democracy. after the fall out from the weekend's g. seven summit in canada that meeting of the world's leading industrial nations unraveling after president trump withdrew his support for the group's joint communiqué german chancellor angela