action accusing the polish government of undermining judicial independence and speaking out to david chaytor whose life was in warsaw so things really coming to a head now david what expect what developments are we expecting today. well as you saw earlier the pictures showed several thousand demonstrators surrounding the supreme court early this morning when the twenty seven justices who retired early as from today picked up their posts again and went into the supreme court behind me and went into their offices so as far as they're concerned the chief justice and the rest of the judges who have been effectively retired early said that they were there to protect the constitutional law because that constitution protects their jobs until at least twenty twenty all of them have a six year term and the retirement age being switched from seventy to sixty five has left them stranded but the government doesn't seem to be particularly worried about that they as far as they're concerned this all seems to be over i was speaking earlier to the vice justice minister he said look those justices can go int

or less speak now to david chaytor who is live for us in war so small source so david we understand those senior judges have shown up for work so a real standoff now here between them and the government. has i'm yes it's best to describe the situation here as very fluid many people are disorientated about exactly what the legal position now is but it is a standoff there were thousands of protesters gathered here on the steps of the supremes court building in warsaw once again to greet the twenty seven judges who have now lost their jobs but they came into the building and they were led by the former chief justice. a good story and she said that the said she she was here to protect the constitutional law because under the constitution she should have a goal a job guarantee until twenty twenty but according to the new measures brought in by the law and justice party she is now redundant and she says that the whole hold measures taken by the governing conservative party are essentially a purge a purge of the supreme court to allow the government to put c. in that. own placement on the benche

crowd to unite behind a new and younger leadership to fight for the future of democracy in poland david chaytor al-jazeera was. lazy as former prime minister najib razak has been charged with a number of corruption offenses are in connection to billions of dollars missing from a state investment fund he set out while in office but the sixty four year old remains defiant telling reporters the upcoming trial will be his chance to prove his innocence flown slowly reports from kuala lumpur. was not a ride at the political poor high court to want to charges of corruption at pivotal to trust which carry a maximum twenty year pretty said it was. i side his supporters mostly from the political party who once lived chanted three nights in. the month and he's the former prime minister and party leader who's done a lot for malaysians now that he's facing such trying times i've come here to lend my support to him and his family malaysia's former prime minister pleaded not guilty and off to be released on bail set the case against him is a political vendetta so it doesn't. really look i expected this this i

opposition say this is the fight they must win for the sake of future generations and i speak now to david chaytor who is live for us in warsaw so david it looks like a real standoff is developing now between these judges in their supporters and the government on the other side. as i'm that's right it's.

emanuel macro has not yet commented on the case which has turned into a major political crisis david chaytor from paris always in the thick of the political fray with a manual macron before and after his successful bid for the presidency alexandra banal or clearly had the trust of the new occupants of the lease a palace but that very close n'est now threatens to overwhelm the man he was sworn to protect how much did the president know was there a cover up when arlo was filmed at the may day protests in paris this year wearing a police armband and carrying a police radio he was supposed to be just an observer but mobile phone footage later showed him wearing a riot police helmet and visor tackling a demonstrator. suspended for just two routes he was back on the security detail when the french football team returned in triumph to paris with the world cup. french deputies of the national assembly on monday cross-examined interior minister gerard calame why did it take two and a half months before a prosecution was brought against the bodyguard he sounded like he was passing the buck. the office

register as a candidate in december's presidential elections he's been speaking to our correspondents david chaytor in belgium. pierre bemba came here to the belgian town of waterloo to give his first full length interviews after having his convictions quashed the international criminal court in the hague decided he did not bear legal responsibility for the actions of his militia once red cross the international border into the central african republic he'd send them there to help watch a coup the unleashed a reign of terror and looting the killing of the billions and the mass rape of hundreds of women i asked him though did he feel any moral responsibility for what his militia did and what his plans were politically when he went back to the democratic republic of congo next week. of course have a little sympathy for him or whatever bit him it isn't. to say that i'm going back to going to central africa and as a convert he says you know i'm a senator in congo and the former vice president will as the chairman of my political party in the next candidate for my political party i'm going to take part

of president joseph kabila he has called an election which is due to take place in december i'm david chaytor in belgium the country that was the former colonial ruler of the democratic republic of congo ever since again his independence in one thousand nine hundred sixty there's never been a peaceful transfer of power in that country the senate is returning from belgium to his homeland to register as a candidate in the presidential elections. talks to al-jazeera. thank you very much for talking to al-jazeera thank you i'd like to start with perhaps the hardest question for you. during those ten years inside you. you would didn't have criminal responsibility for the atrocities committed by by your militia you were convinced always you were going to come out an innocent man but during those ten years that you have any feelings about your more responsibility for what happened i think that of course i have a lot of sympathy for all the people in the in the central africa in general bengie and the my brothers sisters and of course any victim i am. supporting i mean. the been better as you say you

implemented by the ruling though and justice party since it took power in twenty fifth but as david chaytor reports the latest move has infuriated the e.u. . a drumbeat of defiance was sounding as thousands of protesters composed on the supreme court it was a boisterous reception for the former chief justice. who returned her death on the first day of her and first for tyler was. almost lost in the crowd she declared she was determined to defend the legal order of the country not to play politics but to bear witness to the truth but far removed from the sounds of the protest the ministry of justice was turning a deaf ear to her claims. and told the building of a can be very good they can be there as guests but cannot work as judges because they require. that uncompromising line was repeated by poland's prime minister when he address members of the european parliament in strasbourg because the tribe each state has the right to shave their legal says.

determined to defend the country's constitution and limit the growing powers of the government david chaytor al jazeera. still to come here on al-jazeera. all right very fortunate that i know now they put away i was like trying to remove activists. a tense standoff a move to the villages in the occupied west bank also i'm down is a service which will provide the best medical advice and treatment to everyone every man woman and child in this country a milestone for britain's public health service which version three needs a check up of it so. we've got a drive by the hot sunshine across the good parts of the middle east a little more clout there over towards afghanistan towards pakistan through what my stance a task and almighty you could just cast want to show us here as because three thousand but for many is more hot sunshine thirty seven celsius in tehran with ten degrees hotter than that for a baghdad pleasant sunshine around that a societal of the mediterranean so we getting up around the thirty degree not here over the next couple of days good to see want to two showers just sliding out

told about the incident the day after it happened in may cross has not yet commented on the case david chaytor is in paris. the french interior minister is being grilled by the commission of the national assembly behind me he's revealed that he knew about this incident one day after it happened he also knew there was a video of the alleged assault and he decided that it wasn't up to the interior ministry to to go forward with this investigation he passed and all of the details to the french happened somebody in the french capital should have informed the public prosecutor that's the article of law here in france but instead what happened was the bodyguard was on suspension for two weeks without pay he then started working once again he was in the personal to curate for president. in and around. july the fourteenth and also of course the return of the victorious french football team from the world cup so serious questions are being asked about the transparency and integrity of president to ideals that he was elected on he was going to change the face the way politics worked in the least say so

retirement is due to take effect on wednesday poland's top judge is refusing to step down from her post david chaytor has more from the rally in warsaw. forty percent of the justices in the supreme court will lose their jobs at the stroke of midnight has been described by the chief justices president of supreme court chief justice goes off as a political courage essentially she says her term should be guaranteed under the constitution until the year twenty twenty and it's the law and justice party by bringing in this new legislation for breaking the most fundamental laws and that's the law of the constitution now the government itself says that what they're trying to do. bring down the sense of contact between the order of people around her and what they called a self-serving elite inside the supreme court they've also said that the reforms that they started after the fall of that so many stories even nice neat and i. thought our. problem is i think. it's very bright and they're determined to push through these measures of course as the house the brussels and the european commission and say that what

protest but the opposition say this is a fight they must win for the sake of future generations david chaytor al jazeera warsaw the international red cross has warned that humanitarian help alone will not solve the refugee crisis it says political solutions are needed to help hundreds of thousands of people who fled from me in march to bangladesh mohammed omran reports from cox's bazar where senior u.n. officials have been meeting refugees. the u.n. has been trying to highlight just how vulnerable the population of the refugees here in cox's this are bangladesh remains and where we are here including a long can this really just highlights it highlights just how dangerous things are for the refugees it's monsoon season cyclons have not begun but look all around us this is what accumulated rainwater does these steep hills behind the steep muddy hills that most of them lacking vegetation well these huts are built on them when rain waters come means that this landscape is prone for natural disasters for landslides for flooding it's one of the reasons why people are so concerned and i spoke about

determined to defend the country's constitution and limit the growing powers of the government david chaytor al jazeera warsaw. the chairman of korean family has been at the center of a series of scandals is now in courts in seoul a really expected on an arrest warrant for sixty nine year old chu young hugo he's suspected of tax evasion and embezzlement court last month rejected a request to arrest shows wife on charges including assaulting workers chose two daughters have been at the center of temper tantrums dubbed not rage and water rage . b.c. of migration continues to cause problems for the german chancellor angela merkel has a parliament to support her new migration policy now vassal follows a compromise deal with her conservative coalition partners the christian social union to limit the number of asylum seeker arrivals this is merkel also needs the backing of her other coalition partners the social democrats and the european union . police have detained a woman who tried to climb the statue of liberty to protest against the u.s. president's immigration policies she was on new york's

he's seen his popularity ratings drop to just thirty nine percent they may have further to fall david chaytor al jazeera parents. without zero these are top stories the u.s. highest court has ruled in favor of qatar in the case it brought against the united arab emirates international court of justice says the measures taken by the u.a.e. after the blockade against cattle amount to racial discrimination by voters to serve in. the united states must be. one. separated by the measure is adopted by. iran's foreign minister is warning the u.s. president to be cautious after little trump threatened iran with severe consequences on twitter tensions between the two countries have escalated since the u.s. withdrew from iran's nuclear deal in may and said it will reimpose economic sanctions more than twenty people have died in wildfires close to the greek capital athens strong winds are hampering firefighters in states where measures have been declared in several areas italy's foreign minister says migrants rescued from the mediterranean will be allowed to come ashore nations tackle the issue of migra

protest but the opposition say this is a fight they must win for the sake of future generations david chaytor al jazeera warsaw the president of the european commission has asked lawyers to examine a migration deal with germany's chancellor angela merkel struck with her but very and coalition partners the agreement would set up so-called transit camps along germany's border with austria this is where refugees will be screened to see if they've already applied for asylum elsewhere in the e.u. if they have. they'll be deported back to the e.u. country they first registered in but that when the state would have to agree and austria has already signaled its opposition so far this year around eighteen thousand refugees and migrants already claimed asylum in another country and locals been meeting a center left coalition part of the social democrats to see if they'll accept the migration deal the s.p.d. rejected the idea of transit camps in twenty fifteen out of voiced skepticism about a new agreement. teachers in argentina are on strike for the fifth time this year thousands of the march didn't wa

protests but the opposition say this is a fight they must win for the sake of future generations david chaytor al jazeera walsall a second man has been shot and killed in the philippines in two days security camera footage shows the moment of the attack on tuesday government approached ferdinand boaties vehicle when he was leaving a government office in the way of a seeker province they shot booty repeatedly before fleeing the scene. the international red cross warned that. humanitarian help alone will not solve the hinge a refugee crisis it says the political solutions are needed to help people who fled from myanmar to bangladesh under serious mahmut john jhoom reports now from cox's bazaar where senior u.n. officials have been meeting refugees. the un has been trying to highlight just how vulnerable the population of or hinder refugees here in cox's this are bangladesh remains and where we are here in critical long can this really just highlights it highlights just how dangerous things are for the refugees it's monsoon season cyclons have not begun but look all around us this is what accumul

david chaytor has been speaking to cycling fans in paris. the thirty two year old welshman aaron thomas said fighting in self wearing the yellow shirt was like being in the middle of a whirlwind i will take time for things to settle down but tens of thousands of supporters have gathered here in paris to watch him make that final sprint for victory known to his friends simply as she is and the respect of his fellow professionals in one of those moving races in sports in the world it's great that the brits are doing so well in the cold fronts so that it builds up the support for cycling back home it deserves you know he's been. there for ten and through where games before him it's his time it's been an amazing race and just like it is every year in whoever works the hardest and does the best and doesn't use the wrong drugs gets to him but not everybody here has been cheering team sky's remarkable run of six victories out of seven consecutive races the only one. that's it and it's to battle through to get catch. maybe with net smart or maybe so

crowd to unite behind a new and younger leadership to fight for the future of democracy in poland david chaytor al-jazeera. coming up on al-jazeera. he is former prime minister he's not guilty to corruption charges connected to the disappearance of state money al improve relations between china and north korea are fueling a property boom in this border town plus i'm on the richardson of the world cup in russia finding out why so many chinese fans are here you can either take to qualify . how the heat wave continues across west of your more hot sunshine humid conditions as well but we also got some rather lively showers in place you can see this little china storms just spilling out of the bay of biscay rolling across the far north as pain just extending into southern areas of france pushing across the alps northern parts of italy see some very lively so i was recently state of the temperatures at the very warm rain then temps getting up to twenty seven celsius and passion just about be dry for paris pushed further north looking good once again for the tennis twenty eight celsius in london thirt

he's seen his popularity ratings drop to just thirty nine percent they may have further to fall david chaytor al jazeera terrorists. members of the thai football team trapped for two weeks in a flooded cave taking part in buddhist ceremonies to thank the spirits for their rescue. ministry that near chiang rai where they also held a ritual for the tight navy seal who died during the operation later eleven of the will shave their heads and on roads from spending the next nine days living as trainee monks meditation techniques and helping their physical and mental recovery . you're watching out of there these are top stories the un's highest court has ruled in favor of qatar in the case it brought against the united arab emirates international court of justice says the measures taken by the u.a.e. off the blockade against cattle amount to racial discrimination by eat voters to serve and. the united arab immunities must ensure that. one. separated by the measure is adopted by united. five hundred seventy. campaigning has ended in pakistan ahead of wednesday's hotly contested election ballot boxes

determined to defend the country's constitution and limit the growing powers of the government david chaytor al-jazeera warsaw. the german chancellor angela merkel has urged parliament to get behind her new migration policy in her last speech before the summer break it follows a compromise the all with their historic allies the christian social to limit the number of asylum seekers arriving in germany merkel needs the backing over other coalition partner that's the s.p.d. along with the e.u. member states if the deal is to succeed so i didn't feel that. it is my firm conviction and the firm conviction of many others that the handling of this migration issue will decide whether europe will insure because it's such a moving issue it's important that we come to this agreement. dominic cain has more now from berlin. after speaking in parliament on wednesday angle americal went on german television and in an interview she gave more detail about the sort of shape the plans for migration detention centers might take the crux of this is establishing where in the the person concerned them the migrant

well i speak now to david chaytor who is live for us in warsaw so a real standoff here developing then between the judges and their supporters on one side and the government on the other. that's right there were several hundred demonstrators giving us a boisterous welcome outside the supreme court to the twenty seven judges who were forced into early retirement today by this new measure which lowe's the retire on the day of the supreme court from seventy to sixty five now the judges say that this is essentially a purge and what the government wants to do is take control of the highest legal institution in the land they've already got control of the media they got control of the constitutional tribunals and now they're getting control of the supreme court behind me they can put in their own men on the benches people who will be much more pliant to the government will now of course this is going to be an increasing amount of momentum in the demonstrations not only here in warsaw but across poland as a whole more than sixty towns and countries overnight also saw demonstrations against the

cracks in this week's nato summit whatever the outcome though poland hopes to benefit the most david chaytor al-jazeera was. six civilians including four children have been killed in an airstrike by the saudi america coalition in yemen it happened near ties in the southwest of the country coalition air support is being used to back again many government troops who are trying to defeat hooty rebels syrian government forces have surrounded rebel held parts of their our city with the uprising against president bashar al assad began seven years ago the siege comes just three days after russia brokered cease fire but rebels say russia hasn't made good on one of the key promises of the truce so in the heart of reports from beirut . most of the dead are provinces now under government control tens of thousands of displaced people have returned to their villages they left makeshift camps close to the border with jordan after a cease fire deal between the rebels and the russian military which has been negotiating on behalf of damascus but there are tens of thousands of others who are still camped out

has launched legal action accusing the polish government of undermining judicial independence david chaytor reports from warsaw. thousands of demonstrators converged on the steps of the supreme court where forty percent of the judges are losing their jobs it was described by the chief justice. as a political urge. but the ruling lauren justice party described them as part of a self-serving elite out of touch with ordinary people but testers across the country accuse the government of undermining the constitution with a power grab in the highest sanctum of the law aiming to fit its benches with judges who bend to their will the spokesman for the supreme court said tragically history was repeating itself in poland turning back towards the one party state of the communist era. indeed we are seeing a breaking of the principle of the partition of power and then mutual balancing of the different kinds of power in favor of a uniform state power seeing the entire state from a single center. the protesters have one powerful ally on their side though the european commission in brussels they've starte

david many thanks indeed i was there as david chaytor there live in paris the united nations highest court will rule later on a dispute the divide gulf neighbors cassock uses the u.a.e. are violating international law by expelling thousands of cancerous since the start of the g.c.c. crisis pressure malveaux reports. qatar is stepping up its legal battle against the u.a.e. accusing it of human rights violations the two members of the gulf cooperation council the regional body created to boost cooperation and referee spat among its members has been quick polled by a diplomatic dispute so is turning instead to the international court of justice. last june u.a.e. saudi arabia and egypt sever diplomatic ties with qatar and imposed a land sea and blockade qatar alleges that its citizens were either illegally expelled or denied access to the u.a.e. where they have families own property i think it's highly likely that the ins which court justice will accept jurisdiction and so what qatar are seeking at this stage is is more of a cease and desist order so to prevent any further violations and

determined to defend the country's constitution and limit the growing powers of the government david chaytor al jazeera warsaw. well you were head of the news hour and quoting. a desperate attempt to stop israel's move to forcibly evict villagers in the occupied west bank. bus germany's chancellor calls for support of her new migration policy and to save her government from collapse. and in support of the top seeds and wimbledon has crashed out sana we'll have all the details. to turn to the news that iran is threatening to disrupt gulf oil supplies if the u.s. sanctions prevent tehran from selling oil in the global markets and their shimmy is director of the center for middle east studies at the university of denver he joins us now via skype from toronto in canada and we appreciate your time so this threat to disrupt what does that actually mean or think it means to prevent other countries in the region from selling the oriole through the persian go particularly the straits of hormuz and so iran now is i think responding to the that it's feeling as a result of all trumps tough law and again

determined to defend the country's constitution and limit the growing powers of the government david chaytor al-jazeera was. a private humanitarian rescue ship has docked in barcelona in spain after being refused entry to italy and malta. belongs to the proactive open arms charity rescued sixty people from a river boat off the coast of libya on saturday. private rescue boat operators of encouraging human traffickers to take refugees across the mediterranean from africa . so it's enough that we managed to rescue sixty people on fortunately since we left the area i think if you haven't lost count almost five hundred people have died in the last four days these demonstrates that what's happening is viable the closing of the ports here it's only a multi if they get ships like those out of the way as evidently italy and other european countries want what happens is that people will die. this year migration continues to cause problems for the german chancellor angela merkel has urged parliament to support her new migration policy follows a compromise deal with her conservative coalition partners t

crowd to unite behind a new and younger leadership to fight for the future of democracy in poland david chaytor al jazeera. zimbabwe's military commanders are hoping to convince voters there remain neutral elections planned for the end of the month the army was instrumental in unseating robert mugabe eight months ago well since then offices of taking up key posts in the electoral commission has more from harare. joining robert mugabe's rule army commander supported his rulings on it and the military vowed not to allow the opposition to take over the army which forced to resign last november say this year things are going to be different this in public defense forces is not de red in the upcoming election. role in the elections is mainly to support the zimbabwe public release in their role of maintenance of roi in order in the country before during and after the elections previous elections jima got israel were often marred by violence voter intimidation and fraud opposition leaders often said security forces were involved allegations denied by the commanders without nelson chamisa who leads the

court's judges into early retirement on wednesday david chaytor is standing by their forests at the protest david tell us what's the latest on looks relatively peaceful behind you. well nic at the stroke of midnight as you say forty percent of the judges here in the supreme court behind me will be out of a job forced into early retirement by a new measure brought in by the law and justice party the conservative party ruling here and the chief justice has actually said that she thinks this is a political purge it will empty the supreme court of the opponents to the ruling party and allow them to put in their own appointments who will bend to the government's will and she's called it a purge of political courage now is speaking earlier to the spokesman for the supreme court and he said essentially what's happening here is history is beginning to repeat itself that in some way poland is becoming once again a one party state much like it was in the communist era but the government say as far as they're concerned the justices are a self-serving elite who are out of touch with the ordinary people

retirement it's just to take effect on wednesday almost top judges refusing to step down from our post david chaytor has more from the rally in warsaw . forty percent of the justices in the supremes court will lose their jobs at the stroke of midnight it's been described by the chief justice who's president of the supreme court chief justice goes off as a political courage essentially she says her turn should be guaranteed under the constitution until the twenty twenty and it's the law and justice party by bringing in this new legislation for breaking the most fundamental laws and that's the law of the constitution now the government itself says that what they're trying to do is bring a new sense or contact between the ordinary people are permanent and what they've called a self-serving elite inside the supreme court they've also said that the reforms that they started after the fall of the communist regime in nice neat and i have not gone far enough it will probably i think it's. very early and they're determined to push through these measures of course russell is of the european commission to say

he's seen his popularity ratings drop to just thirty nine percent they may have further to fall david chaytor al jazeera terrorists. political ground still to come on the news hour including parliamentary chaos and a new file on his drugs war after the philippines president turns up late. and it doesn't matter what type of rugby it is new zealand always comes out on top do so in sports news in fifteen minutes. you just told. me today the weather sponsored by qatar airways hello there some tin is still causing us problems in the southern parts of china three look at the satellite picture we can see this massive cloud haven it's within that that we're seeing all storm it's gradually working its way northward very very slowly and easing as it makes its way over land but it's got a lot of moisture to give so for the southern parts of china and eventually into the northern parts of vietnam we're going to see a lot of heavy rains over the next few days and that is likely to give us more problems with flooding we're also seeing some very heavy downpours a bit further south as well a force in the phi

protest but the opposition say this is a fight they must win for the sake of future generations david chaytor al-jazeera walsall. the president of the european commission has asked lawyers to examine a migration deal germany's chancellor angela merkel struck with her but very and coalition partners the agreement would set up so-called transit camps along germany's border with austria this is where refugees will be screened to see if they've already applied for asylum elsewhere in the e.u. if they have they'll be deported back to the e.u. country they first registered in but that member state would have to agree and austria has already signaled its opposition so far this year about eighteen thousand refugees and migrants have already claimed asylum in another country america has been meeting her center left coalition partner the social democrats to see if then accept the migration deal s.p.d. rejected the idea of transit camps back in twenty fifteen they say they're skeptical about the new agreement dominic keynes got more from berlin. the route of a migration is the prices that just won't go

determined to defend the country's constitution and limit the growing powers of the government david chaytor al-jazeera warsaw. so had on al jazeera zimbabwe's army helped depose robert mugabe now it's making a major promise ahead of the country's elections and fighting back about from teachers in the u.s. on a move that threatens to weaken the power of their union. i have to phone. me though whether sponsored by cattle i always hurry the seasonal rains continue unabated across central parts of china at the moment lots of wet weather coming in here over toward shanghai southeast of kona will see a few showers over to what's going on province hong kong thirty three celsius with some wet weather the weather just not in a little further south with as we go on through friday some of those showers also affecting northern parts of vietnam at this stage joining up with the showers that we have into southeast asia some big a largish as so very much on the cards across a good part of the region you can see have a run their way over towards the gulf of thailand southern positon of the particulars seei

determined to defend the country's constitution and limit the growing powers of the government david chaytor al-jazeera warsaw. still to come on al-jazeera sounds great finds itself at the center of a nano poisoning scare off to two people are found in a critical condition manned by i'm a lazy is former prime minister please not guilty to corruption charges connected to the disappearance of state money. how the heat wave continues across west of your more hot sunshine humid conditions as well but we also got some rather lively showers in place you can see this little china storms just spilling out of the bay of biscay running across the far north as pain just extending into southern areas of france pushing across the alps northern parts of italy see some very large ish i was recently state of the type which is very warm rain then temps getting up to twenty seven celsius in paris should just about be fly for paris pushed further north looking good once again for the tennis twenty eight celsius in london thirty degrees in madrid come into eastern parts of europe not a dry weather here but over

determined to defend the country's constitution and limit the growing powers of the government david chaytor al jazeera was sort of staying in europe extra police have been sent to a city in western france after a fatal police shooting of a driver led to a series of violent protests shops and buildings were set on fire and moaned but police say they shot the twenty two year old man after he hit an officer during a traffic stop prosecutors have opened a judicial inquiry and the police have launched an internal investigation. a private humanitarian rescue ship has docked in barcelona in spain after being refused entry to italy and malta the astral balloons to be proactive or open arms charity it rescued sixty people from a rubber boat off the coast of libya on saturday it's the accuses private rescue boat operators of encouraging human traffickers take refugees across the mediterranean from africa to europe. so it's enough that we managed to rescue sixty people on fortunately since we left the area i think if i haven't lost count almost five hundred people have died in the last four days this