and anybody talking about anywhere from 700 to 900 people, fediacarederica mogherini said that they will put more in rescue and the border control agency which has taken over from the italian plan to help these poor them stuck out in the mediterranean. we understand that we can go to our correspondent dominic kane. he is in luxembourg, and i think this all comes in a meeting before e.u. leaders on this subject on thursday. but it begs the question, doesn't it, why the sense of urgency now when this has been going on for years? and we've been reporting on it at al jazeera for years. >> well, that is, indeed, one question that comes from this, david, you're right. the meeting, of the e.u. leaders summit has been coming from the call for immediate action. it has been the feeling of the meetings all day we've had foreign ministers and the interior ministers. that gives the sense of the importance that the e.u. has placed on today's developments. but the question will be how much resources will they really put into some form of successor to tritan which itself is a successor to the marinastru