well, thomas garofalo is the libya country director for the international rescue committee. he joins us from tunis. good to have you ever. so what happens to some of these refugees and migrants once they're apprehended by libyan authorities? well, they are entirely and they are brought back to libya and they are put into detention . unfortunately, there are no very rare cases when people are released in the vast majority are put into very harsh conditions inside detention centers in libya. ok. but i mean, detention for want, what is the process of the detain because they have entered libya without documentation? are they being repatriated back to their countries? if they came from elsewhere, i mean, what happens in this detention? what is the system? well it's, it's quite opaque actually. unfortunately we, we are, the, is very difficult to track these migrants and asylum seekers. once they go into detention, often they are able to secure their release. but the fact is that 25000 people have been returned this year already in a vast increase from the previous year. and many o

the less gotta follow is the libya country director for the international rescue committee. he says europe needs to do more to help living authorities. the living coast guard is not really capable of monitoring the the, the crossings. and so we have international rescue committee have, have called on the european union to do more to start their own search and rescue operations. that's one thing. on the other side, in libya, there really isn't any visibility into what happens inside the detention centers we are and we the, the i r c along with you and hcr and, and some other humanitarian agencies have some access into the detention regime, but it's quite incomplete. we are able to provide some assistance of a life saving nature through our medical teams. but i, a, by and large the, the situation is failing the not only the asylum seekers, but also many law abiding peaceful people who have been swept up in this effort by the libyan authorities to, to stop migration. thousands of people inch, nicea have been rallying in support of the presidents. the opposition's accused case sa

doctor said this facility run by the international rescue committee with support from units of i barely coping with high number of children seeking help. did you receive between 15 and 20 patients? 80. but petition. any we do gets out of that space and in where such, because we are exempt to come under the deluxe, the o e at them to go to the facility, or if we can give them any other indication for them to take and then come to moving the money so that we can admit them was we have the space as my to my not be be prepared to leave 6 mothers holding their sick. children wait outside, each is hoping their child will take up the next available bet space. it went to this mother and how severely malnourished child, as well as teaching under his children the hospital also treats and feeds mothers to boost their immune systems. what's happening here is repeated in many other hospitals in the city. with crops about to be harvested, doctor's under trish's, hope malnutrition cases will decline, but there are no guarantees. since inflation has hot incomes and unemployment remains high. the i'm gr