eventually, he agreed to take them to malta.glish, and he says the captain asked him to translate. why would i hijack the ship? why? the captain was in full control of the ship. what is it like being accused of being a terrorist? it is very, very, very hard for me. very hard. it is eating me up. whenever i think they are calling me a terrorist. what has happened on board has never been proven. authorities are still collecting evidence. and it could be years before they face a trial. so far, we haven't seen evidence of terrorism, and we question the ability of the prosecution to bring such evidence. what those people are fleeing from as a hellhole. from our clients�* perspective, it was the natural thing to do to save themselves and save the other people on board. malta is on the frontline of migration across the mediterranean, and human rights organisations say that in trying to stop boats from arriving, it acted disproportionately. the archbishop of malta has intervened, and urged authorities to drop the case. migration is not

jean mackenzie, bbc news, malta.adcast. otherwise it is streaming. almost everything else is streamed by one service or another. do you watch any television? almost no. i'm normally watching youtube or netflix. ofcom's annual snapshot of media habits should be spent an average of five hours and 40 minutes a day watching tv or online video in 2020, up 47 minutes on the year before. much of the increase is due to the fact that the time watching subscription streaming services almost doubled to one hour and five minutes per day. the biggest player, netflix, is now in more than half of all uk homes. with hit series like bridgeton, netflix now has more subscribers than sky, virgin and the other uk pay—tv providers put together. we are seeing that younger people are migrating from traditional tv to really engage in streaming services where they can watch what they want, when they want on their own device, whether that is netflix or youtube but we are now seeing older audiences catching up and turning to the streaming servi

the malta in the grand scheme of things didn't matter that much.a lot of people thought russians were going to be defeated. they thought while malta goes, we lost a lot of other stuff already, so what? churchill, he was in 1942 deeply politically embattled. he knew that many americans, many russians are foreseeing britain defeated so often in the battlefield didn't think much of this. there was an opinion poll, when americans who they thought was trying hard toast win the war, after america, the second choice was the chinese. the third choice the russians and the british didn't come near it. the british weren't up to much. in russia there was the same feeling that stalin told churchill, your navy runs away. calls one of the arctic convoys from britain to russia have been disastrously defeated and broken up and most of the ships were american, most of the ships. and the whole credibility of britain as fighting ally is at stake. churchill was personally embattled. people were saying, all right, he talks a great game. he's always talking about victori

this is the moment they arrived in malta.ondly -- seconds later, they were handcuffed and led away. >> this is a place that come they arrested me and took me to prison directly. >> he was just a child, 15. he says at first the captain tried to take them back to libya. people panicked and protested. eventually he agreed to take them to malta. he was the only person on the boat who spoke english and he says the captain asked him to translate. >> why would we hijacked the ship? why? the captain was in full control of the ship. >> what happened on board has never been proven. the authorities are collecting evidence. it could be years before they face trial. >> so far we haven't seen evidence of terrorism. we question the ability of the prosecution to bring such evidence. what the hundred plus people were fleeing from is horrible. they did the natural thing to save themselves and the other people on board. >> malta is on the front line of migration and human rights organizations say in trying to stop boats arriving, it acted dispr

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that's a little bit from his newest book "operation pedestal" about the british navy and malta. callers involved in let's hear from mike in lakeside california. mike, thanks for holding and you are on with author max hastings. >> caller: thank you booktv and thank you mr. hastings. my question was about the end of world war i and i was impressed with the candor about the various parties and what they thought about getting into world war i. they are coming out of world war i and woodrow wilson started the league of nations and i think it was maybe the french politician that said even the good lord need to take commandments which was pretty good and also i think it was maybe a british or french politician said about the end of the war there were 20 million, too many germans and so would not sign the treaty to quit. let's go given all that you are saying there what is your conclusion about the end of the war? >> caller: just a little bit of tender from the same spirit of mr. hastings about the british. i think perhaps lord grey and some other characters decided to butter up preside

malta is on the front line of migration across the mediterranean.ing, it acted disproportionately. the archbishop of malta has intervened and urged authorities to drop the case. migration is not a crime. honestly, i don't know why the exaggeration. i don't know if it was to give an example. i don't know. no one from the police or the prosecution would answer any of our questions. but the maltese foreign minister has agreed to meet us. is this case reallyjustified? i told you, i'm not in a position to go into the specifics of the case. i'm not trying to simply avoid your question. but people are telling us that these three people have been caught up in a political game, that this case is the product of politics? i don't agree with that interpretation. these self—righteous people should try to understand what pressure we are faced with, and what it means to carry the responsibility on our own to deal with the central mediterranean route. in these sacks are letters of support. hundreds arrive each week. lamine, as translator, reads them out. "my name i

most of the rescues occued off the coast of libya and malta.escue ships are now looking for safe locations to disembark the asylum seekers many whom need urgent medical care. this is anne dekker speaking from the sea watch 3 ship. anne: many of them are super exhausted, havfuel burns, are sick, dehydrated, and quite a number have diseases. we have required assistant and not received any reply. we are in urgent nd of safety as soon as possible. we need safety as soon as possible. nermeen: another rescue group, sos mediterranee, has over 550 refugees on board its ship after conducting six rescue operations this weekend. this comes as the number of refugees trying to reach european soil continues to grow due to worsening poverty, violence, the climate crisis. and the climate crisis. according to the united nations, over 1,100 refugees have perished crossing the mediterranean so far this year. we are joined now by laurence bondard, spokesperson and operations communications officer for sos mediterranee based in paris, france. she's been on 4 rescue

glasgow won earlier, 3—0 against birkirkara of malta. to come on sportsday. lucky to be alive — let alone playing premier league football, the verdict on wolves striker rauljimenez after suffering a fractured skull last season. he says he never doubted he'd be back. i never thought about the playing. there was a chance of that, but i was always confident that i was going to return. england have rung the changes for the third test against india which starts at headingly next week, following their defeat at lords which left them 1—0 down in the series. yorkshire batsman dawid malan has been recalled to the squad. he's been a mainstay of the t20 side but last featured in test cricket during the 2018 season against india. meanwhile dom sibley has been dropped. his highest score in four innings against india in the current series was 28. zak crawley is also out of the 15 man squad. it's another double header in the hundred today. the men have just got under way but in the women's match london spirit beat welsh fire by seven wickets. heather k

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glasgow city beat birkirkara from malta 3—0.champions servette late on and later this afternoon celtic are in norway, up against levante, and swansea play cska moscow. after reaching the semi—finals with australia at the tokyo olympics, hayley raso has signed for manchester city on a two—year deal. she spent last season at everton, scoring five goals in 22 games, and says playing in the champions league played a "really big part" in her decision to join city. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more for you in the next hour. we will talk more about the story which has dominated here, the focus is on the house of commons because it is back in an emergency station. —— session. mps have been debating the taliban's return to power in afghanistan. the prime minister opened the debate by saying that the conflict in afghanistan over the past two decades was seared into our national consciousness and that the collapse of government forces had taken everyone by surprise. but he denied there'd been a failure in the uk's emergency plan

they're coming up to people are key to plotting to kill me on malta. spoken out against the minute she jumped to a dash to safety. the people flying a greek island with wall 5 right on that doing that. i'm serious. have all in the town of nick oakley in columbia, worth thousands of people trend and direct him to migrate to north america. ah. in the un security council has been warned. afghanistan is heading for catastrophe as the taliban steps. so it's offensive. the united nations and boys, as a conflict with government forces, has entered a deadly more destructive phase after the armed group sees the provincial capital of the ranch. it is the 1st 50 to fall to the group since the u. s. began pulling out the last of its forces entrepreneur to get us a james space has moved from couple. this is significance around the 1st provincial capital enough. going to start to fall into taliban control. these pictures released by the taliban ship fighters driving humvees and other vehicles paid for by the us and nato and taken from africa and forces the airport the only one in the desert province

and that it shouldn't just be about about malta infections and it shouldn't just be about dropping on people. do you levels which are no worry people, but actually, they mean system doesn't t base and stuff. it doesn't me. the point about to mean memory is that when you see correct for us to get and they need system springs interaction, you don't need all the time. you just need them. when you are facts he's being developed that will the target that will target the delta very specifically, but it doesn't really care that they need it. so remember, the fact that we using now are actually against the original. we actually, we do see that people who have coded before and haven't been back to also have protection against adult. so that might things we go so ready if you like, while fall. and they're clearly giving protection against l to will be maybe not quite as much as the problem is, developing a specific back against bell teresa, what happens if it changes can so you know, lots of time went into developing back things against the base of areas we have hardly any issue around now ther

over 700 refugees, including a three-month-old baby, were rescued off the coast of libya and malta overkend as they attempted to reach europe. the humanitarian group sos mediterranee has carried out at least six separate rescue operations since saturday. the group is searching for a safe location to disembark the asylum-seekers. this comes as the number of refugees trying to reach european soil continues to grow due to worsening poverty, violence and the climate crisis. over 1,100 refugees have perished crossing through dangerous sea routes so far this year. meanwhile, greek authorities on the island of lesbos have drafted criminal charges against at least 10 humanitarian aid workers, accusing migrant rescue groups of "human trafficking." new zealand has apologized to pacific islanders for the country's past racist anti-migrant policies. in the 1970s, new zealand police routinely raided the homes of pacific islanders in the middle of the night looking for residents who had overstayed their visas. new zealand prime minister jacinda arden spoke on sunday. >> today, i stand on behalf of th

not travel warning 16 countries were recently added to the list, including greece ireland, libya and maltaden administration is trying to come up with a plan to allow international travelers to begin coming back into the u.s. and a safe and consistent way. >> foreign nationals traveling. she united states. this. they're still policy work being done here may need to have some type of a requirement. we're okay with this being a first step over the long term. we think the travel community and countries have to figure out how multiple ways you can enter country. >> the cdc is also advising against nonessential travel to countries including canada, thailand, russia, france and morocco. >> united airlines has required is 67,000 employees in the united states to get vaccinated against covid by late october otherwise they are at risk of losing their jobs united is the first major u.s. air carrier to require vaccination its employees must upload proof that that they are fully vaccinated. united says exceptions will be made for certain health issues or religious reasons. according to the airline mor

other countries on the list include the isle of man malta the full list is available on kron 4 dot com. >> passengers on spirit and american airlines are very angry about the fact there have been a lot of cancellations, a lot of delays across the country. the airlines now blaming a spike in summer travel for those issues. kron four's, lauren lyster at la x tonight with the story. >> travelers at la x today. lining up for hours trying to rebook or get refunds after spirit airlines canceled hundreds of flights turbulence. that was not part of these people's travel plans came here for vacation it's been the worst vacation ever. according to flightaware spirit canceled 277 flights monday on top of 165 on sunday and how was it going at la x today. terrible. >> so, you know, it started in the cancel flights. one traveler sharing the e-mails she received this morning. her connecting flight home canceled. it just shows you that it canceled them say why did the book makes you get in line. the book here, another woman saying she and her daughter in different states. both had their plans ruined b

remain in afghanistan while some republicans are calling for the president's resignation in washington malta rivera fox news as the situation continues to develop overseas afghan americans are watching every development very closely okay tv's christian captain spoke with an afghan immigrant today. her cousin was inside the airport christian there in kabul shortly before those explosions as she heard from her family. there yet? yeah fortunately she says that she has heard from her cousin. he appears to be all right for now in that airport in kabul but she says there are so many there who are still in harm's way news spread quickly through the bay area afghan american community about the suicide bombings that claimed the lives of 12 american service members and at least 60, afghans the situation is catastrophic expose me in a serie is an immigration attorney who emigrated from afghanistan herself in the 19 eighties. says her cousin is one of the people we've seen desperately trying to make it inside the airport in kabul and my cousin is right now. luckily he made it about two hours before the

heatwave has brought all sorts of problems — from greece, the balkans, across to central—southern italy, maltaorth of the uk. that's going to bring windier conditions for scotland, northern ireland, plenty of showers — particularly western scotland. some of these will be heavy. i think for england and wales though, closer to an area of high pressure to the near continent. it should be virtually fine. i think we will see more sunshine across the southern areas than we had on thursday, so temperatures responding. we could see 23, maybe 21t celsius. otherwise, it's the high teens for the north. teens further north. now, as we head on into the weekend and then, there will be a lot of dry weather around but we've got a new area of low pressure working its way slowly in from the west but it's a weakening feature, and there's still some uncertainty to how much rain there will be on it and where about it will be — again, high teens in the north. we could make 20—22 across southern areas. now, as we head on into the sunday, it looks like this area of low pressure pushes its way a little further eastwar

the only problem i have heard of it is very sadly some people being turned away from malta which forenough. that probably answers david's question because he was also concerned about the issue regarding the astrazeneca vaccine as it applied to the united states which is academic until the us decides british people can come back in. we have another question from the south of france. "when is this amber+ category going to be removed for travel from france? does the government not realise the implication this is having on families visiting — it's been almost two years since i was able to see my family in the uk? enough is enough." sounds as though the prime minister might have got the message? susan is right, enough is enough for everybody, this is a crazy ruling that came in, very left field for everyone, and we have got to wait and see, there could be good news this thursday but we don't know. the irony is it is about the variant which came from the reunion island which is about 6000 miles away so clearly nowhere near france. ridiculous crazy ruling but it has caught out a lot of indi

which for _ people being turned away from malta which for about 36 hours had a prohibition on this and 0k. it is annoying — that this will get me in 0k. it is annoying but please don't stress about _ annoying but please don't stress about it — annoying but please don't stress about it. ., annoying but please don't stress about it. . ., ., , , about it. fair enough. that probably answers david's _ about it. fair enough. that probably answers david's question _ about it. fair enough. that probably answers david's question because . about it. fair enough. that probably| answers david's question because he was also concerned about the issue regarding the astrazeneca vaccine as it applied to the united states which is academic until the uss british people can come back in —— until the us decides. we have another question from the south of france. "when is this amber+ category going to be removed for travel from france? does the government not realise the implication this is having on families visiting — it's been almost two years since i was able to see my family in the uk? enough is enough

chair defazio: representative le malta. >> thank you. i i wanted to touch on commercial aircraft and the mask wearing issue with covid with mr. soskin. last month we had 27 of us sending a letter to the tsa, and cdc, to renew the mandate through september 13th. we asked them to remove or modify commercial aircraft. what we are getting is reports of 75% of the unruly passengers. we have all seen the videos of people getting roughed up if there two-year-old does not have a mask and this is while people are on the plane. the planes have extremely efficient filters of circulating the air through the aircraft and cleaning it. the situation is such that people are getting frustrated and we are asking tsa and cdc to look at this sooner rather than the summer season is over. what was the consideration for the social effects of people on passenger planes and the interactions with the passengers and the flight personnel on the aircraft? has that been considered by dot at all as you are aware, mr. soskin? mr. soskin: representative lamalfa, let me

have a look at this lorry, which is bound for the south of england, and it will go on its way towards malta wanting to come back. but also, it's an ageing workforce. the average age of an hgv driver is 55 and just 1% is under 25, so as they retire they're not necessarily coming through. and part of the reason for that is that there is a huge backlog of people trying to get their hands on hgv licences. on average, around 40,000 of them are given out every year. last year, just 15,000 were. so you can see why there is a combination of factors leading to this gap in the workforce. let's talk to leslie, who's struggling to fill that gap. lovely to see you. so roughly a quarter, then, of your workforce is limited. and what can you do about it? what do you think needs to be done? what absolutely needs to be done is, we need the government to put the drivers on that critical shortage list so that those drivers who left the uk through the pandemic or due to brexit are allowed to come back in, and currently they are not allowed to come back in to the uk. if they could come in, even short—term to get

glasgow city beat birkirkara from malta 3—0. glentoran lost 1—0 at swiss champions servette.scow. and finally some breaking news within the last few minutes... the defending champion dominic thiem has announced that he's pulled out of this month's us open. in a statement on social media, thiem says he'll miss the tournament and the rest of the 2021 season, after struggling with a wrist injury he suffered back injune. that's all the sport for now. back to you. you are watching bbc news. mps have been debating the taliban's return to power in afghanistan. the prime minister opened the debate by saying that the conflict in afghanistan, over the past two decades, was seared into our national consciousness and that the collapse of government forces had taken everyone by surprise. but he denied there'd been a failure in the uk's emergency planning and said that the uk would honour it's "enduring commitment to the afghan people". we will be supporting, doing everything we can to support helped the uk mission in afghanistan and investing everything we can to support the wider area ar

what about that correspondent in malta that was blown up?e need to focus more heavily on freedom of the press before we get the rug yanked out from under us. people who call in, if you want to thank c-span send them a thank you note in the mail, don't take up time on the air talking about how wonderful c-span is. we all know how wonderful c-span is. thank you, i love c-span. host: in georgia on freedom of oppression issues -- in freedom of the press issues, he'll reporting on their website that vice president harris's root causes initiative for stemming northern triangle migration to the u.s. facing serious headwinds. she released an 18 page plan for slowing the tide of migrants that promises long-term investment in the region's development. one key component is a product to reduce migration from guatemala, el salvador, and honduras by investing nearly $4 billion over four years to improve living conditions in those countries. the root causes of migration run deep and migration from the region has a direct impact on the united states. as far

malta and germany are on the list.this week issued a warning to some of the "cowboy" test providers. they're accused of charging too much, and failing to deliver tests in time. lots of places — including australia and the us — are still off limits. they're still not allowing uk nationals to visit. no matter what list 0ur government puts those countries on. so travel as normal still clearly a long way off — but what changes could we see today? we caught up with travel guru simon calder in berlin airport. i'm expecting changes to be more positive than negative in terms of easing travel rules. but, of course, for many families, it's simply going to be too late. if turkey is moved from the red list — requiring hotel quarantine — to the amber list, that would be hugely to the benefit of many british people with family connections in turkey and of course people who own property simply want to go for a late summer break. we're also expecting — fearing — some countries could be moved to the red list but i can guarantee that wi