is not doing enough right now. >> benjamin ward the deputy director of human rights watch.ood to see you. thanks for your time. >>> a greek ferry that caught fire earlier this week rived in southern italy today at least 11 people died after a fire broke out on board sunday. helicopters plucked survivors from the ferry and took them to nearby ships. investigators will search the ship to see if there are anymore bodies. >>> the palestinian authority submitted its question to join the international criminal court. only members of the icc can be charged with crimes at the hague, and can bring charges against another nation. the palestinian ambassador made it clear that they will ask that the court investigate charges against israel. kristen saloomey has more now from the united nations. >> reporter: we received a statement from the secretary general's spokesperson that says that the u.n. is now considering the appropriate next steps. typically it takes 60 days once an application is received for the jurisdiction to go into effect. but we have the israelis arguing that the pales

earlier i spoke to benjamin ward.e described the situation. >> it is very worrying to see this happening when the weather is much worse where it's much easier for vessels to get into trouble. normally, the crossings tend to stop during the winter. and -- yeah. >> so benjamin what is frontex the amalgamation of resources and nations and is it capable of doing the job necessary here? because at the moment it appears to be overwhelmed. >> yeah, i mean it's the european union's joint border agency. but it doesn't have any personnel or equipment of its own. it relies on eu governments supplying their own staff and personnel. but i think it's important to say that it's only very recently taken on the task of patrolling the mediterranean. that task has been carried out for the most of the past year by the italian navy. and it's interesting that this week both of the major rest accuse that we've seen have actually been led by the italians. the eu force was supposed to take over from italy but it's clear the tanlts are still i

starting off with benjamin ward president and ceo of the usa rice federation. >> i'm going to go quickly start by talking about rice and cuba. the cuban market for rice is not theoretical. it's real it's large and it's compelling. cuba is the second-largest importer of rice in america and there was a time along time ago when cuba was our number one export market. anyone who has visited cuba knows that rice is the mainstay of their diet. present in nearly all cuban mills. their annual consumption is one of the highest in the world about 200 pounds a year. compared to the u.s. which we consume 27 pounds a year. cuba does grow rice. they grow about 400,000 metric tons a year but to meet their high demand they import 600,000 metric tons. i'm proud to say that our industry is pressing for open trade and travel to cuba since the mid-1990s. we were the first u.s. commodity to re-enter cuba in 2001 at the havana trade fair and we continue to sponsor trade missions participating in forums here and in cuba. we did have sales during the early 2000. we sold about 64 million. that was the top sales i

benjamin franklin bridge as salt trucks went back and forth treating the bridge. >>> developing tonight, the lights are back on 59 tiesens corner center after a power outage left shoppers in the dark. derrick ward is live tonight at tysons. do we know what caused the outage. >> reporter: according to dominion power this could to do with transformers. the whole thing lasted about 90 minutes. it was just after 1:00. there's lots of ambient light in the maul because of course that's the way it's designed but some of the individual stores did close their doors, because they don't have security or cash registers when there is no power, but the mall itself never closed. dominion sent crews here immediately. they started dealing with the problem. as i said they isolated it. the billest issue that some people moo might have been the traffic lines. but again, the mall itself never closed. not necessarily all of the stores are on the same transformers. also some of these stores do have auxiliary systems of their own. but again, dominion has cleared this situation. it only as you can see, things are back to normal derrick ward. >> thank you very much. >>> two men have been injured after they were caught i