only after a number of european union countries agreed to take the migrants is prime minister joseph muscat you. six european union member states most of france ireland italy luxembourg and portugal have decided to team up together to offer another look europeans so you shouldn't to an impending humanitarian crisis on board and the lifeline. here in germany interior minister jose hoffa's says the country could potentially accept some of the migrants but only if the lifeline is taken out of action let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world in the united states a federal judge has barred the trumpet ministration from separating any more families court crossing illegally into the country from mexico a judge also ordered all sources to reunite migrant children with their parents within thirty days and children under five. within fourteen days two thousand migrant children are still being held in custody away from their families. their mom has said it will no longer cough right with a current un special rapporteur who's documenting human rights abuses against

we pressed prime minister muscat on how these people are going to be apportioned and he refused to give any numbers he said that there have been very concrete pledges and he said that these are according to capability which suggests population size and g.d.p. . but he did not give any figures because he said when i asked him will this be a blueprint will this be a stencil for how refugees will be apportioned to member states in future situations that arise we've already had two situations firstly aquarius now the lifeline of books that weren't allowed to talk because there's disagreement about who was going to process the people on board he said this is not a pass and it is not a blueprint. he doesn't want to commit the people who have volunteered to help. to in future taking similar proportions of people off of rescue vessels but he is clearly in favor as he goes into the european summit tomorrow of a down to management approach to the refugee crisis rather than the grandstanding political approach as he put it of rights wing european leaders who have chosen to see this as an ideologic

trust all international community and this was really the on why i will explain to you before in muscat about two years ago there was a plan before the how they accepted the twenty to sixty in this illusion they were told that if you accept this we will guarantee that the world will stop and then we will go in how to implement the twenty two sixty what they have accepted and what happened the saudi continue its war that's why i say biased because this is what the united nations has been doing so mr look on her if you can you must the united nations if i was are asked how they will cease fire who do you see as a mediator in this conflict that has to end. i think this should be talks between the host between their buddies in sanaa included though the un saudi arabia the first thing and the united nations if it want to be. in this in this war they should at least mention the saudi as one site and when i say biased i can date i mean anyone watching me now to bring me a document from any u n envoy into yemen or you in security council that has mentioned this over the other part of this war h

agreement and the major political issues remain to be resolved but we do know that people like joseph muscat are saying let's take a practical approach and let's take a humanitarian approach broadly speaking john where does malta see it if you had to divide europe into the camps of those who say yes take people in and disperse them across the continent and those who are saying no way we're tightening our borders is on the fence there. well malta is more exposed than most european countries even more so arguably than greece and italy on whose behalf the whole relocation scheme was thought up because motors sits on the main maritime route between libya and italy if you depart the libyan coast bound for hastily you will come across most of first also across the maritime route between tunis you're sailing east toward sicily and the boot officially well to sit in the way of that and it is therefore a very much in the path of the mid mr rayney and smuggling route i don't think that the multis with the small territorial expense and their small population are happy with much larger and wealthier and

we pressed prime minister muscat on how these people are going to be apportioned and he refused to give any numbers he said that there have been very concrete pledges and he said that these are according to capability which suggests population size in g.d.p. . but he did not give any figures because he said when i asked him will this be a blueprint will this be a stencil for how refugees will be apportioned to member states in future situations that arise we've already had two situations firstly aquarius now the lifeline of books that weren't allowed to talk because there was disagreement about who was going to process the people on board he said this is not a pass and it is not a blueprint. he doesn't want to commit the people who have volunteered to help. to in future taking similar proportions of people off of rescue vessels but he is clearly in favor as he goes into the european summit tomorrow of a down to the management approach to the refugee crisis rather than the grandstanding political approach as he put it of rights wing european leaders who have chosen to see this as an ideo

malta should allow the people to disembark but that was rejected by the maltese prime minister joseph muscat under international law it is up to the country coordinating the search and rescue operation in this case italy to choose the port where the vessel should dock and responsibility echoed by the european commission on monday the priority of both . these authorities should be ensuring these people receive the care they need spain's prime minister pedro sanchez has said the ship will be allowed to dock in the spanish port. but the italian refusal to allow the migrants in is an alarming precedent for rescue as for italy's interior minister it is an opportunity to make good on his word and pass the buck to neighboring countries in the mediterranean. al-jazeera well the aid group doctors without borders through spain for granting the ship permission to dock with their emergency coordinator told us they may not be possible to actually take up the offer. coming this. from the spanish and the city because this is at the end a european problem but it's not as simple as just leafing i mean first

the larger countries in the northern mediterranean basin they need this agreement in theory joseph muscat the prime minister has reached the basics of an agreement with the other five countries but that has not yet officially been announced and until that happens this ship is itself a refugee from all of the ports of europe spain and italy have officially turned away is keeping it in a holding position hoping to allow it to land john many thanks. live in malta for that heavy rain has hampered the search for twelve young footballers and their coach missing in a cave in northern thailand divers were unable to progress further into the cave system due to rising flood water rescue as they remain optimistic that they're alive after previously stranded tourists were found when waters receded scott hyde reports from china right. hundreds of metres of large hoses were fed into the town long cave early wednesday tools for an uphill battle to reduce the water level inside rescuers hope to make up lost ground from heavy overnight rains that continued when the sun rose rescuers say they need more pow

trust all international community and this was really the on why i will explain to you before in muscat about two years ago there was a plan before the how they accepted the twenty to sixteen the solution they were told that if you accept this we will guarantee that the world will stop and then we will go in how to implement the twenty two sixty what they have accepted and what happened the saudi continue its war that's why i say biased because this is what the united nations has been doing so mr look on her if you can you must the united nations if i was all are asked how they will cease fire who do you see as a mediator in this conflict that has to end. i think this should be talks between the whole thing between their buddies in sanaa included though the un saudi arabia the first thing and the united nation if it want to be. in this in this war they should at least mention the saudi as one site and when i say biased i can date i mean anyone watching me now to bring me a document from any u n envoy into yemen or you in security council that has mentioned this all the other part of thi

came only after a number of in you countries agreed to take the migrants as prime minister joseph muscat with six european union member states most of france ireland italy luxembourg and portugal have decided to team up together to offer another doc europeans so usually to an impending humanitarian crisis on board and the lifeline . here in germany interior minister horses they hope the country could potentially accept some of the migrants but only if the lifeline is taken out of action. in thailand officials say the time is running out in the search for twelve boys and their football coach who are believed to be trapped in a cave system that has now flooded coach took the boys exploring after a training session they've been missing since saturday. the boy spikes left at the mouth of the cave the last indication that they were here. for four days rescue teams have been working nonstop to locate them and their coach instructs relatives have been waiting stoically in the rain praying. i hope that today with the full team helping inside my son will be saved. or thore to say they still hope

movements of the boat in the last six days the controversial period when as multis prime minister joseph muscatyesterday said the vessel went against international rules and ignored directions given by italian authorities who were coordinating the rescue he did not call for further details yesterday on what that meant but what we believe it means is that the lifeline refused to give up to the libyan coast to boatloads of people the two hundred thirty three people that it brought here to malta yesterday which the libyan coast guard was apparently willing to pick up and this is what lifelines co-founder axel star told me yesterday when i asked him what area of competence was he in when he picked up those people was he under italian jurisdiction the libyan he says he believes it was a talian because it was the italian called natal soroses that opened up the case number of the two boats that he found that his ship found in those libyan waters but he says that. we asked the libyans for a port of safety but a port of safety has to be in international law a real port of safety and i received in an e-m

number of european union countries agreed to take the migrants in is what mata's prime minister joseph muscat said earlier today. six european union member states most of france ireland it's in the luxembourg and portugal have decided to team up together to offer another look europe is so huge and to an impending humanitarian crisis on board and the lifeline i'm now joined by a german m.p. money about sarrazin he is with the green party and was part of a group of lawmakers who were on board the life flying thank you so much sir for joining us here on the set you were able to see for yourself what the conditions are on life line please share that experience with us i mean what you have to imagine is that when you enter the boat you're not only stepping on the boat actually stepping on human beings there so it's so crowded the sonia to each other the sitting since days having body to body being really close to it together really of kind of move and then i was dead was good weather conditions the waves were perhaps half a metre high of mach's but now we have spring does have braved the waters co

don't trust all international community and dismissal of you and why i will explain to you before in muscat about two years ago there was a plan before the how they accepted the twenty to sixteen dissolution they were told that if you accept this we will guarantee that the will stop and then we will go in how to implement the twenty two sixty what they have accepted and what happened the saudi continue its war that's why i say biased because this is what the united nations has been doing so mr look on her if you can you must the united nations if i was all are asked how they will cease fire who do you see as a mediator in this conflict that has to end. i think this should be talks between the whole thing between their buddies in sanaa included though the un saudi arabia the first thing and the united nation if it want to be. in this in this war they should at least mention the saudi as one site and when i say biased i can date i mean anyone watching me now to bring me a document from any u n envoy into yemen or u.n. security council that has mentioned this already as a part of this war how

malta should allow the people to disembark but that was rejected by the maltese prime minister joseph muscatunder international law it is up to the country coordinating the search and rescue operation in this case italy to choose the port where the vessel should dock and responsibility echoed by the european commission on monday the priority. should be ensuring these people receive the care they need spain's prime minister paid a sunset has said the ship will be allowed to dock in the spanish port of violence yeah but the italian refusal to allow the migrants in is an alarming precedent for rescuers but for italy's interior minister it is an opportunity to make good on his word and pass the buck to neighboring countries in the mediterranean. al-jazeera. well one of the aid groups operating the ship has thanks spain for granting permission to dock but it says it may not be possible to take them up on their offer spain or first of the routine violence and we acknowledge it's it's a sign of solidarity but it's not on our decision the italian of our sea is under command and the have to take the

currency conversion at a bank in muscat that they could convert billions of dollars and euros. getting blanket access and providing key iranian funds that could be used for funding extremism and other troubling activity. fortunately, no u.s. bank wished to comply with such an authorization. they feared fallout in the financial industry, and u.s. sanctions law. my question, as we debate this handshake agreement that was not an agreement with the american people, not done through a treaty, not done through consent of congress when we had bipartisan overwhelming resistance to the iran deal, my question would be this: to doctor walsh, a series of basic questions to frame of activity of iran is important here. should we curtail proliferation of terrorism, or promoted? >> considering mister vice chair, that i spent virtually all my professional career working to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and undermine terrorism, i think my answer is obvious. >> i'm guessing by your answer, it would be to curtail it. i've been a soldier most of my life, and seeing iran kill united states s