charlie angela reports. >> in more than three weeks of bombing this is one of the largest attacks yetthe target was a scud missile base. but the massive explosion killed dozens of people, destroying nearby buildings and blowing out windows homes and offices it also damaged a television station owned by the form he president, ali abdullah saleh knocking it off air. local residents voiced their anger. >> the munition hit our homes. this is what the cowards use to bombard civilians. >> translator: when we arrived here to help our colleagues and the people there was a big explosion and we found shells over the whole area. >> an area beside hada district, outside sanaa quick to criticize the saudi led strike was indonesia whose embassy is nearby. >> translator: i want to strongly condemn the air strike in sanaa several diplomatic staff were injured in the air strike i.t. also damaged the vehicles belong to the embassy. >> for 26 days, forces loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh. the campaign has repeatedly targeted the sajatan base along with other military facilities and airports

charlie angela, al jazeera. >> life can be difficult. phil lavelle spoke to someone who nearly escaped death on the high seas and now can barely feed himself. >> for the migrants it's a journey that represents a new life new start. and joseph got that new life five years ago. >> they say now enter italian waters. i was blessed. >> joseph had to get out of ghana, made his way out of libya, where people smugglers put him on a boat for a price. destination, lampedusa. >> the first i was lucky they promised you joe you are moving today pnl i went in and. they went in and they didn't take me, the boat is too full. i have to go in two days time. about one or two days time, i heard that the boat had been sank on the sea. all of the people died. >> so you had a narrow escape? >> yes, the people were -- they were about 125 passengers, people, all of them died. all of them sank including the boat. >> reporter: but the boat he did board also got into trouble. and had to be rescued. joseph still remembers vividly the moment he arrived in europe. >>

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charlie angela, al jazeera. >> european leaders today are holding emergency meetings on the migrant crisis. hundreds have died in the last few days. we have more from luxembourg. >> it's a day of high-powered meets in luxembourg. foreign ministers have come to discuss the situation in so far as the mediterranean sea migration waves coming across from libya and other parts of north africa but they're joined by interior ministers, which is a sign how serious the european union is taking the waves of migrants coming across, and the hundreds who are dying. the e.u. foreign policy chief spoke earlier about the moral imperative that the e.u. felt to deal with this situation. there have also been remarks from the german foreign minister where he said the situation is to deal with the migrants who come across but also happens to deal with the situation on the ground in north africa, in libya in particularly where rival armed groups have fought for position and created a wave of migrants trying to get to the european union. >> dominick kane reporting from luxembourg. >>> we're joined villa skype fr

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charlie angela has more now from london. >> at 78, her memory is not what it used to be, but one memory is crystal clear. as an 11-year-old, british soldiers forced her into a truck as she was driven away she heard thoughts and her father was executed, and watched as her childhood home was burned to the ground. she has come to the u.k. to demand an apology from the british government. >> i definitely have a responsibility not only to my father but also to the others who died horribly. none of them had been given food before they were killed. their bodies were left in the hot sun for seven days. it was horrible. they are lying down in the road like planks. their bodies were all bloated. >> in 1948 britain was battleing communist fighters. the unarmed men were shot trying to escape. at the time the killings were portrayed as a military victory but in 1970 six of the soldiers involved confessed to murdering the villagers in cold blood. two investigations followed but both were blocked by the british government. their argument was if they were liable for the deaths that lability fell away i

charlie angela has more. >> in more than three weeks of bombing this was one of the largest attacks yet. the target was a scud missile base. but the massive explosion killed dose ofdozens of people, it also damaged a television station owned by the former president ali abdullah saleh. knocking it off air. local residents voiced their displeasure. >> translator: this is what the cowards used to bombard civilians. >> translator: when we arrived here there was a big explosion and we found shells over the whole area. >> reporter: an area beside sadaa district, near the capital sanaa, quick to criticize the attack is the embassy of indonesia. >> translator: i want to strongly object to the exproation. >> against the houthi fighters and force he loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh. the campaign has repeatedly targeted the base along with other military facilities and airports in sanaa and throughout the country. >> the coalition forces succeeded, relatively, to destroy the military infrastructure of the deposed president saleh and those of the houthis including weaponry depot which a

charlie angela has our report. >> reporter: in more than three weeks of bombing, this was one of theargest yet. the target was a scud missile base. [ explosion ] >> reporter: but the massive explosion killed dozens of people destroying nearby buildings and blowing out windows in homes and offices. it also damaged a television station owned by the former president saleh, knocking it off air. local residents voiced their anger. >> translator: the munition hits our homes. this is what the cowards used to come bard civilians. >> translator: when we arrived here to help our colleagues there was a big explosion. >> reporter: this is an area where the presidential palace and many embassies are located. quickly to cite size the strike was indonesia who's embassy is nearby. >> translator: i want to strongly condemn the air strike in sana'a, several staff were injured in the air strike. it also damaged the embassy building. >> reporter: for 26 days -- saudi arabia has lead air strikes against yemen. >> the coalition forces succeeded relatively to destroy the military infrastructure of the depo

. >> this is a question directed towards charli chisolm and angela davis. contemporary context what would they think of the current boy black lives matter "movement it's structural development and the course in which it's going or growing right now? >> well, angela davis is a big supporter of the "black lives matter" movement. she speaks in support of the movement. she speaks against racism, against even really thinking about connecting the movement to the larger global development so she speaks out against imperialism, and things like that. she has been an uncompromising voice in that way. so it's also really exciting to think about her because she is somebody who like i said, was politicized in her education was big part of how she expressed her politics. then she or den though she is a professor, and i love that, being a professor her job is her day job is a professor but through her classwork her coursework, her write examination her activism on and off comp bus she -- campus she really has been one of the figures, like a cornel west, who has been one o

. ♪ charlie: gunter grass died monday at age 87, and german chancellor angela merkel said grass shaped postwar history with his social and political engagement. he was here on our program in 2007 for an interview, and here is an excerpt from that conversation. [video clip plays] charlie: characterize what you have done by telling us about your experience. gunter grass: i talk about my mistakes, not asking questions. for me, that is much heavier. it was not my guilt. there is no reason to speak about guilt. you can say why i did not say it before loudly. i did in the 1960's, and no one listens, and afterwards, i did not speak about it. if you should take it should be a mystic then it should be a mystic. for me to decide by myself to speak about all what has happened to me. as a boy and as a young man. my young years, not only i this -- by this one point all of this time together, needing some time to write about, and i think the decision to do it in my late years was good. because my memory is just specialized for this part of my life much better than it was before. ♪ est." where we cov