waiting outside italian waters 65 migrants are aboard the alan currency operated by german n.g.o.s c.i. crew members say they rescued them from a dinghy with no g.p.s. navigation aids and only 10 liters of water the crew told they refused to return the migrants to the closest port in libya despite an offer from the libyan government to take them in instead they headed for italy. the next part for us so we just followed maritime law and went to the next part. we were. to lampedusa now we are at the coast this morning we had the goddess you know on board they made a check up of the people. informed us about that the crates of the need and now we are waiting for further instructions. italian interior minister met selvi need denied the rescue ship permission to arrive in lampedusa even if the migrants were to be distributed to other countries in europe as suggested by his german counterpart salvini says it's very clear who is responsible here he says it's a german ship and so it should go to germany. but the migrants have been with the alan kirti hope their ship will also dock in lampedusa regar

refused but the crew said it was too far for them to travel and the german rescue boat that's been waiting to dock in italy has changed course and is now heading to malta instead the c.i. tweeted that italy was blocking it from docking and it couldn't wait any longer carrying $65.00 african migrants rescued off libya's coast the libyan coast guard had instructed the boat to return but the captured refused to take the migrants back to what he says are libyan torture camps. italy's right wing interior minister mathias salvini has been on social media defending his hardline stance. lawyer yeah i am not reopening italian ports especially if you ask me to but was a german ship and then you take care of it or we put them all on a bus in front of the german embassy that's enough and this applies to the french the dutch and to anyone who thinks anything can be done in italy. the heads own citizens military says he will protect and implements a power sharing deal with the opposition general abdul fatah says time has come to rebuild the nation after months of political crisis we go. through our work the 5th of july agreement with freedom and change and other powers is considere