. >> april 1, 1992, the launch of deutsche abela -- deutsche welle's 24-hour service. 20 years of topicalatellite television, a continuing success story here on dw. >> thanks so much for staying with us. a parliamentary symbol of the council of -- assembly of the council of europe is calling for a complete overhaul of how undocumented migrants are treated when they tried to cross the mediterranean. this follows an incident last year in which dozens of africans died at sea despite desperate appeals for help. >> pace said that nato in particular failed to react to distress calls from the vote carrying the refugees. thousands of people fled the fighting in libya in 2011. many of them did so in unseaworthy vessels. >> the people in this vote were lucky. they were rescued, but an estimated 1500 people died trying to cross the mediterranean to europe last year. the council of europe has weighed in on the case of 72 refugees from libya was vote ran out of fuel. survivors reported that passing naval vessels did not help them. the refugees used a cell phone to call this priest. >> i hope that with