the number of migrants making the sea crossing from north africa to southern europe has fallen dramatically in the last two years. tragically, the number of deaths hasn't declined as fast, why? well, humanitarian activists blame the anti—migration policies of eu member states, led by italy. my guest is carola rackete, who defied the italian authorities to land the rescue ship sea—watch 3 in sicily with 50 migrants onboard. to some, she's become humanitarian hero, but will her actions merely encourage more people smuggling and more suffering? carola rackete, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for inviting me. you have emerged from an extraordinary experience earlier this summer, which involved you captaining a rescue vessel in the mediterranean, picking up almost 50 or so migrants, ending up docking in italy in defiance of the italian authorities and then in detention for a while. how much of a toll has that experience taken on you? well i've first been volunteering in this organisation in 2016. it's called sea—watch. yeah, sea—watch. when you talk to the refugees who come from libya,

welcome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur. the number of migrants making the sea crossing from north africauthern europe has fallen dramatically in the last two years. tragically, the number of deaths hasn't declined as fast. why? well, humanitarian activists blamed the anti— migration policies of eu member states, led by italy. my guest defied the italian authorities to land the rescue ships she watch see with 50 migrants on board. to some, she has become a humanitarian hero but will her actions merely encourage more people smuggling and more smuggling? carola rackete, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for inviting me. you have emerged from an extraordinary experience earlier this summer, which involved you captaining a rescue vessel in the mediterranean, picking up almost 50 or so migrants, ending up docking in italy in defiance of the italian authorities and then in detention for a while. how much of a toll has that experience taken on you? well i've first been volunteering in this organisation in 2016. it's called sea—watch. yeah, sea—watch. when you talk to the refugees who come

but they don't have much in common with their ancestors which will likely imported from north africa to spain in the middle ages . this is. the original arena has had extremely fine wool. but over the centuries they've been bred to develop more skin folds and that produces more. of the. most german marino's abridged for meat production their skin has no wrinkles and their wool is course. but. we get a lot of rain here and there was perfectly suited to those conditions and. of. course wool helps to keep out the moisture out in full. like a raincoat exactly. is used to make carpets insulating materials and even see how has the public transport vehicles the wool that's used in the manufacture of clothing comes from other countries argentina produces about 4 percent of the world total so to south africa and new zealand at 88 percent a stranger is by far the largest producer. merino wool is a major a strange an export turnover and 2018 was equivalent to over 2300000000 euros. a merino even appears on a stray unicorns but the dark side of the story is that the sheep of bread to produce exc

in the middle of the middle east and north africa this is this is an exception we cannot deny that at the same time what can democracy provide in terms of economic demands that's the major challenge so it's a mixed story we meet a group of ladies in the medina they too aren't happy with what's been achieved in the last 8 years economy security corruption the main issues everyone highlights after the revolution everything had to change but nothing has changed everything is actually worse infrastructure for instance we just had terrible floods here the economy before everything was covered up but after the revolution it's now out there to see tunisians go to the polls on sunday if no candidate gets over 50 percent of the vote there will be a runoff in november many will tell you that is an almost certain scenario parliamentary elections will take place in october the next 2 months could reshape the entire political landscape and determine what tunisia will look like moving forward stephanie decker al-jazeera tunis. we've got lots more to come here about including behavior ends mountain

in the middle of the middle east and north africa this is unique this is an exception we cannot deny that at the same time what can democracy provide in terms of economic demands that's the major challenge so it's a mixed story we meet a group of ladies in the medina they too aren't happy with what's been achieved in the last 8 years economy security corruption the main issues everyone highlights this after the revolution everything had to change but nothing has changed everything is actually worse infrastructure for instance we just had terrible floods here the economy before everything was covered up but after the revolution it's now out there to see tunisians go to the polls on sunday if no candidate gets over 50 percent of the vote there will be a runoff in november many will tell you that is an almost certain scenario. parliamentary elections will take place in october the next 2 months could reshape the entire political landscape and determine what to look like moving forward stephanie decker tunis. including palestinian israelis are encouraged to turn out in great numbers in t

in the middle of the middle east and north africa this is unique this is an exception we cannot deny that at the same time what can democracy provide in terms of economic demands that's the major challenge so it's a mixed story we meet a group of ladies in the medina they too aren't happy with what's been achieved in the last 8 years economy security corruption the main issues everyone highlights after the revolution everything had to change but nothing has changed everything is actually worse infrastructure for instance we just had terrible floods here the economy before everything was covered up but after the revolution it's now out there to see tunisians go to the polls on sunday if no candidate gets over 50 percent of the vote there will be a runoff in november many will tell you that is an almost certain scenario parliamentary elections will take place in october the next 2 months could reshape the entire political landscape and determine what tunisia will look like moving forward stephanie decker al-jazeera tunis. crews in indonesia are still trying to control wildfires that ar

30000 refugees being relocated from facilities in libya country who many people who've gone to north africa to try and reach europe only see one to offer to take them enough to media reports. showed some terrible conditions well bob barr is the spokesman for the united nations high commissioner for refugees and joins us now from geneva good to have you with us on the program just 1st of all just want to have the capacity to take that many refugees 1st a great sigh of relief for the 66 that we were able to fly from libya to the one last night i mean refugees are trapped in hellish in the polish can of polling conditions inside libya there are at least 5000 who are in detention centers unity are has been trying to rescue them and then to take them out of libya inside the rwanda we have been working with the rwandan authorities in terms of establishing the centers that we have outside kid gully the capital so at least those who are arrived last night 66 included 24 children 22 of them alone the youngest was a 2 month baby who was born in detention and there was one person who had spent 4 years

he comes from north africa and runs a smuggling syndicate. moving people from athens to western europe for around $8,000 each. >> reporter: his usual customers are migrants and refugees. hundreds of thousands have come to greece from the middle east, many making the dangerous crossing by boat. they're dreaming of a better life in western europe and alrayes and other smugglers can get them there. could i talk to him about where we... i posed not as a refugee but as an isis wife who wanted safe passage to germany. "no problem" alrayes said. in fact, he told us he'd moved other isis members before. he even bragged that he'd smuggled three brothers of notorious al qaeda terrorist abu musabl al-zarqawi, a claim we cannot confirm. the smugglers used stolen identity documents. we went undercover again, this time posing as smugglers ourselves, and found criminals with hundreds of them for sale in athens, including u.s. passports. they try to match their customers with an i.d. photo they resemble. then the smugglers use the stolen documents to fly peo

they walk all across north africa. and everywhere where kirk goes because he's kirk, he always carries with him a portable typewriter. and his letters -- i'm 48. in all my years of researching, i've never seen a body of letters that he never stopped writing. he could do 120 words a minute. he had a photographic memory. just amazing. he walks across the desert with this hungarian scholar. and he wears a three-piece tweed suit across the moroccan desert. he carries with him not only his typewriter but he has this huge cain that has a sword in it. t.s.a. wouldn't allow this. he usually carried a revolver with him. children follow him everywhere. this is bizarre character walking across. ends up in europe after this whole thing. gets to an opera in italy. i think he's in florence if i remember right. and they're late. he and his friend they show up in this opera. he wore in addition to wearing his three-piece suit everywhere, he had a count dracula cape. he gotten the count dracula prize. and he loved wearing this high col

but they don't have much in common with their ancestors which will likely imported from north africa to spain in the middle ages. the original marine has had extremely fine wool. but over the centuries they've been bred to develop more skin folds and that produces more. of the. most german merinos a bridge for meat production their skin has no wrinkles and their wool is course. but was. afraid. we get a lot of rain here and there was perfectly suited to those conditions and. of. course wall helps to keep out the moisture out in full. like a rain coat exactly. is used to make carpets insulating materials and even seat covers for public transport vehicles the wool that's used in the manufacture of clothing comes from other countries argentina produces about 4 percent of the world right total so to south africa and new zealand at 88 percent a stranger is by far the largest producer. merino wool is a major a strange an export turnover and 2018 was equivalent to over 2300000000 euros. a merino even appears on a stray unicorns but the dark side of the story is that the sheep bred to produc

spanish authorities have rescued nearly 200 migrants trying to reach spain from north africa in several operations near its coast on the mediterranean some 18000 migrants have arrived in spain so far this year a 40 percent drop from the same period last year. the greek government has started to move 1500 asylum seekers from the island of lesbos to the mainland in an effort to ease overcrowding in migrant camps a recent spike in migrants arriving to greek shores means 11000 people are being housed in buildings designed for 3000 people. on the move again these refugees on the greek island of lisboa anxious to be leaving the overcrowded conditions of the morea camp behind them albeit 2 conditions on known in a different camp on the mine last. i knew later i arrived and the 9th of july and it's been one month and 20 days that i'm leaving noria and out of that i got my ticket so now i'm moving to new. and racial because more is not that good laziness very hard to live in such a and vitamin k. and trucks and buses transported the 1st 650 people and their worldly positions to the hobble with t

libya to the east and algeria to the west facing europe to the north and the smallest country in north africa. its strategic coastal position on the mediterranean made it an inviting the cation for country seeking to expand their empires in the ancient world the phoenicians the romans ottoman king and in the 1900 centuries france all have taken their turn to plant a firm foothold in tunisia. indonesia bans maintains of all pledge colonial army the influence of colonial france is still felt today french is widely spoken across tunisia and the unity and community in france today numbers over half a 1000000. in the spring of 881 french troops invaded june is here meeting little resistance and agreement strongly favoring the french known as the treaty of bob dole gave the colonizers almost full control of tunis in affairs while french settlements in the country were also encouraged. to lazy or finally gained independence in 1956 following political negotiations and a campaign by china's ian fighters to end french colonial rule known as the full larga they drew inspiration from their ancestors reb

the officers thought they were meeting one man from north africa and elder and natali thought they werehe backpack owner. they knew what he looked like and saw him that night. they leave their hotel, walk one block and approach the bank from across the street. they are worried about getting jumped by the pusher's friends. >> they thought that the person they were going to be meeting up was part of a gang or mob or mafia guy, whatever. >> reporter: he tells me that's why finn elder carried the knife. the teens don't see the bald man in the tank top but two dark figures wearing bermuda shorts and t-shirts. ied to abort and urn theed le -- turned left away from the bank. >> the officers came behind them and jumped them and never showed them their badges. we know that. never identified themselves as police prior to jumping them. we know that. >> reporter: in his tussle, the officer got away with scratches to his neck. officer rega had finn elder pinned to the ground. the autopsy estimates rega at 5'9" and 253 pounds. that includes the body bag and sheets covering him. peters tells me the au

libya to the east and algeria to the west facing europe to the north and the smallest country in north africa. its strategic coastal position on the mediterranean made it an inviting location for a country seeking to expand their empires in the ancient world the phoenicians the romans ottoman king and in the 1900 century france all have taken their turn to plant a firm foothold in tunisia. indonesia france maintains of all pledge colonial army the influence of colonial france is still felt today french is widely spoken across tunisia and that unity and community in france today numbers over half a 1000000. in the spring of 881 french troops invaded june is here meeting little resistance and agreement strongly favoring the french known as the treaty of bob dole gave the colonizers almost full control of tunis in affairs while french settlements in the country were also encouraged. gymnasia finally gained independence in 1956 following political negotiations and a campaign by china's ian fighters to end french colonial rule known as the felucca they drew inspiration from their ancestors rebels

party rule tunisia is often cited as the only success story of the uprisings which swept across north africa in the middle east for 2011 but it's not that simple 1st of all i mean having. democratization process succeeding and this is happening because in the middle of the middle east and north africa this is the rooney this is an exception we cannot deny that at the same time what can democracy provide in terms of economic. a man's that's the major channels so it's a mixed story if we meet a group of ladies in the medina they too aren't happy with what's been achieved in the last 8 years economy security corruption the main issues everyone highlights this after the revolution everything had to change but nothing has changed everything is actually worse infrastructure for instance we just had terrible floods here the economy before everything was covered up but after the revolution it's now out there for you to see tunisians go to the polls on sunday if no candidate gets over 50 percent of the vote there will be a runoff in november many will tell you that is an almost certain scenario parli

party rule tunisia is often cited as the only success story of the uprisings which swept across north africa in the middle east for 2011 but it's not that simple 1st of all i mean having. democratization process succeeding and this is happening because in the middle of the middle east and north africa this is unique this is an exception we cannot deny that at the same time what can democracy provide in terms of economic demands that's the major challenge so it's a mixed story if we meet a group of ladies in the medina they too aren't happy with what's been achieved in the last 8 years economy security corruption. the main issues everyone highlights was after the revolution everything had to change but nothing has changed everything is actually worse infrastructure for instance we just had terrible floods here the economy before everything was covered up but after the revolution it's now out there for all to see tunisians go to the polls on sunday if no candidate gets over 50 percent of the vote there will be a runoff in november many will tell you that is an almost certain scenario parliamen

this smuggler from north africa promised us safe passage to germany. in fact, he told us he'd already helped other isis members. >> reporter: how do you feel about the prospect that a member isis could potentially have usen elsewhere? >> terrifies me. >> reporter: the greek police are targeting human smugglers and have made arrests. ( gunfire ) but several members of the isis terror cell that carried out attacks in france and belgium came through greece, and there are fears that human smugglers have already helped more isis sleeper cells make their way into the heart of europe. holly williams, cbs news, athens. >> ninan: an anti-vaccine activist is facing assault charges tonight after throwing what appeared to be blood on state lawmakers. several members were hit by the red liquid. protesters were gathered at the state capitol to oppose two new bills limiting medical exemptions for vaccinations. well, new details tonight on actress felicity huffman's sentencing in the college admissions scandal. huffman must turn herself in by october 25 for a two-week

looking at the american role in the ration and when i finished the third volume, i went through north africa and western europe in normandy, thinking about what to do, that campaign in the mediterranean into europe from i just didn't have the heart for it. i've been thinking for a long time about what it is i really wanted to do and as a narrative writer, the boys had a fascination since i was a kid. so i'm one third of the way in from what i hoped would be another trilogy. this one is a history of the revolution from both the american side and the british side. >> why do you say it's more important now than ever? >> when we look at the resolution, we are trying to figure out who we are, who we come from. we are trying to understand if anybody can themselves. what are they dying for? what is that all about? it seems to me that this day, in a moment when the country is with the most practice in politics that you and i can remember, trying to understand the first to come out of the revolution at the beginning of the republican, it's important to remind us of who we are and what people are will

in the middle of the middle east and north africa this is unique this is an exception we cannot deny that of the same time what can democracy provide in terms of economic demands that's the major challenge so it's a mixed story we meet a group of ladies in the medina they too aren't happy with what's been achieved in the last 8 years economy security corruption the main issues everyone highlights after the revolution everything had to change but nothing has changed everything is actually worse infrastructure for instance we just had terrible floods here the economy before everything was covered up but after the revolution it's now out there to see tunisians go to the polls on sunday if no candidate gets over 50 percent of the vote there will be a runoff in november many will tell you that is an almost certain scenario parliamentary elections rules to take place in october the next 2 months could reshape the entire political landscape and determine what tunisia will look like moving forward stephanie decker al-jazeera tunis. and court in sudan says the trial of former president omar b

libya to the east and algeria to the west facing europe to the north and the smallest country in north africa. its strategic coastal position on the mediterranean made it an inviting the cation for country seeking to expand their empires in the ancient world the phoenicians the romans ottoman kings and in the 1900 century france all have taken their turn to plant a firm foothold in tunisia. indonesia bans maintains of all pledge colonial army the influence of colonial france is still felt today french is widely spoken across tunisia and that unison community in france today numbers over half a 1000000. in the spring of 881 french troops invaded june is here meeting little resistance and agreement strongly favoring the french known as the treaty of bob dole gave the colonizers almost full control of tunis in affairs while french settlements in the country were also encouraged. gymnasia finally gained independence in 1956 following political negotiations and a campaign by china's ian fighters to end french colonial rule known as the felucca they drew inspiration from their ancestors rebels who

border a broad network had been formed between the different national liberation movements in north africa sharing contacts strategy and local knowledge. as a result the military capability and expertise of the larger group transforming young man raised in the chain is in mountains into efficient fighting units. through the class war never said i know how do and hear him all he has and how as well he has him against someone in a similar kind of 1000000 who are in assume you're going to say anything about insult than no one here corollary is not the intent i leave. for i says one of then he would then he and so highly ominously i didn't it is therefore my son's totem so i think mass what is then a little one are you sure have been elevated to be through it all to be $3.00 you been a very good dooms if you will of where millennium will call it when les love him to get going to get. yeah. and you. know from my. question if you're going to. despite keeping a low key presence there were occasions when for larger fighters would face french troops in open confrontation coming up the end game to i

but they don't have much in common with their ancestors which will likely imported from north africa to spain in the middle ages. the original arena has had extremely fine wool. but over the centuries they've been bred to develop more skin folds and that produces more. of the. most german merinos a bridge for meat production their skin has no wrinkles and their wool is course. but once. we get a lot of rain here and there was perfectly suited to those conditions and. the. course wall helps to keep out the moisture out in front of like a raincoat exactly. is used to make carpets insulating materials and even see how has the public transport vehicles the wool that's used in the manufacture of clothing comes from other countries argentina produces about 4 percent of the world by total so do south africa and new zealand at 88 percent a stranger is by far the largest producer. merino wool is a major a strange an export turnover in 2018 was equivalent to over 2300000000 euros. a merino even appears on a stray unicorns but the dark side of the story is that the sheep bred to produce excessi

face when they decide that they want to make that journey from north africa across the mediterranean. in the time i was in libya about 2 months i've been almost every day at the detentions and that was working so i was discussing. a lot of times with the migrants detained for stories and the terrible times over 2 years on on the journey they were forced to labor they have been victims of violence they have been victims of rape they have also tried to cross the military did they were brought paper the libyan coast guard to libya back to the detention center so it is a cycle which hardly anybody can escape at the moment libya plus the conditions at the detention centers have said this is a very bad nutrition is a very bad hygiene these people. out of infection of tuberculosis in the detention center i was working from september last year and to my 22 people don't have it from the book of those what about the conditions there in those detention centers the libyans do they want the migrants and refugees do they want them the urge they want them to disappear. yeah this is a very difficult

means $9.00 to $60.00 by solution friend who was our only took the not united nation only north africa cut again country rejected your claim there by the african so he were hearing but then again you have come to any and this is a perfect example of why there is a dispute internees here right now because we're hearing the claim when the counter growth problem i was i was just very curious if you could give me one example and getting out quickly about what you meant by integration. yes. become a became part of leisure then there's a problem with. building more of one problem the other problems that that's happening here but it's not just because of the way current mishandles about the issue here but it's also due to a mission of this well and the issue of lack of prosperity issue of. not not very good good governance there in public what we could actually buy the pub on themselves so get it's a very complex issues and populous a truly has a special autonomy granted to them which is not enjoyed by and by and that presents . basically the special autonomy grants once great people it is fo

authorities in spain have rescued nearly 200 migrants who were attempting to cross from north africa to spain they were picked up from boats in the straits of gibraltar on the alberta sea on monday about 18000 of arrived in spain the year that's down 40 percent from a year ago. germany has been remembering the start of world war 280 years ago when he invaded neighboring poland 94 year old janis to need to ask a valid survived the concentration camps of auschwitz and back in belsen since then she has spent years telling schoolchildren about her experiences today she received one of germany's top awards for her efforts to stop the rise of anti semitism. she is one of the last holocaust survivors alive today i need to lascaux wolfish was departed through our streets concentration camp in 1943 by then the nazis had already murdered her parents there. waiting to be put in the gas chambers it was a situation that what it was in no very difficult to describe to people nowadays who live more or less normal lives it was music that's a flask of office life that's happened to chalo player she w

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they're and they should not be threatened by so to arabia and of course i'm not going to talk about north africa and the role that the saudis are playing there but one final thing that i'd like to point out and that is the united states. has to recognize that iran and its regional partners and allies whether it's from the mediterranean to the red sea to central asia to the hindu kush they are very powerful and if the united states thinks that they can strike at the iran and get away with it they're badly mistaken they have any. small attack on iran will have a disproportionate response from the country and b. this will lead to a catastrophic situation the oil and gas insulations in the region will be destroyed if the if if the yemeni resistance can do what they did to the saudis and this wasn't their 1st attack by the way if they and they are becoming more and more developed if they can do this with the saudis imagine what the iranians put easily do to the saudis and the m.r. oxys they would bring down these sunni regimes immediately and then when war takes place you think that people in yemen t

from 4 european countries are seeking a common approach to handling the influx of migrants from north africa they're meeting in malta which are long with it to the says it's sold during too much of the burden both have turned away migrants rescued by charity vessels representatives from out italy germany and france are being joined by e.u. presidency holder of finland and the e.u. commissioner for migration sonia gago is covering the meeting for us she joins us now live from sunny what are the parties there intending to achieve in this meeting . well essentially it is to try and find some kind of solution that they can all agree on in terms of what they can do in terms of read ok to refugees and migrants asylum seekers that come to europe wind up on european shores from the north african coast particular from libya as well there have been divergent opinions on this already malta and italy started discussing this back in july when they wanted to see a whole focused approach as they're taking in the burden of most of those boat landings from libya so what they would like to see is are other e.

libya to the east and algeria to the west facing europe to the north and the smallest country in north africa. its strategic coastal position on the mediterranean made it an inviting the cation for country seeking to expand their empires in the ancient world the phoenicians the romans ottoman king and in the 1900 century france all have taken their turn to plant a firm foothold in tunisia. indonesia bans maintains of all pledge to belong to the influence of colonial france is still felt today french is widely spoken across tunisia and that unity and community in france today numbers over half a 1000000. in the spring of 881 french troops invaded june is here meeting little resistance and agreement strongly favoring the french known as the treaty of bob dole gave the colonizers almost full control of tunis in affairs while french settlements in the country were also encouraged. gymnasia finally gained independence in 1956 following political negotiations and a campaign by china's ian fighters to end french colonial rule known as the felucca they drew inspiration from their ancestors rebels who

its briberies incite the region and not limited to iraq i mean iran is not involved in north africa we're not in the bia we're not in the sudan but saudi arabia is there because it's seeking catchment it's seeking to germany and yemen that is why we have just war going on even between saudi allies in yemen that mentality has to change to necessary changes nobody could have had germany in the region you cannot buy your security from outside i think with that cognitive transition in saudi arabia we can have peace and i understand the same applies to iran as well of course of course if i say that there can be no hedger monic power in the region i mean iran but we understand that we do not want to exclude saudi arabia from the region is free in saudi arabia that has tried ever over and over again to exclude iraq and the reason you have this problem in the region is just a perception that they can exclude iran from anywhere in the region that will never happen i think the sooner our saudi neighbors come to the realisation that they need to live for ever. individual the sooner we can have a goo

it's to north africa now in the 1st results from tunisians presidential elections show to anti establishment candidates getting through to the 2nd round now this is the country's 2nd free presidential polls and bring in 2011 electoral commission though says turnout was low and just 45 percent. ahead of the poll there was no clear front runner among the most prominent of the hopefuls usef shy head who served as prime minister since 2016. media mogul now the who is in prison on suspicion of tax evasion and money laundering before official results are out carlie's spokesman already said he'd made it through to the 2nd round. as has come he said he'd a conservative law professor who told unity and radio that an exit poll showed he had made it to the 2nd round whatever the eventual outcome this election has huge symbolic value is the only country that emerged from the arab spring uprisings at the beginning of the 2010s with a peaceful transition to democracy high unemployment and inflation have left many voters frustrated at polling stations many voters said preserving this democracy was their to

it's briberies incite the region and not limited to iraq i mean iran is not involved in north africa we're not in the bia we're not in the suit that what saudi arabia is there because it's seeking catchment it's seeking to germany and yemen that is why we have just war going on even between saudi allies in yemen that mentality has to changed too. necessary changes no but you could have had your money into beach or you come out while your security problem outside i think that cognitive transmission in saudi arabia we can have peace and i understand the same applies to iran as well of course of course if i say that there can be no hedger monic power in the region i mean iran what we understand we do not want to exclude saudi arabia prompted egypt is from saudi arabia that has tried over and over again to exclude iraq and the reason you have this problem in the region is just obsession that they can exclude you from anywhere in the region that will never happen i think the sooner our saudi neighbors come to the realization that they need to live for ever with their neighbors in the regi

seeing much drier temperatures which is lead and drought much drier and hotter temperatures in north africa and across the middle east that is looming to food and water insecurity that. neighboring terrorist groups like boko haram and others to take advantage of vulnerable populations that's why in part why our forces and others are coming either to the rescue of vulnerable populations or to defend those terrorist threats at the same time we're having to deploy our troops in hotter and hotter temperatures putting their lives and readiness at risk then we have in the pacific small island states that may be completely overrun within our lifetime where their populations will have to migrate elsewhere so we're seeing global migration patterns also deeply affected by climate change when people can't eat they will listen to somebody who says i have food even if they're the bad guys thank you sherry goodman from the wilson center thank you your time now let's go to our team new york for rory varada he is media liaison for extinction rebellion in n.y.c. a ph d. student at columbia and adjunct profe

spanish authorities have rescued nearly 200 refugees who were attempting to cross from north africa to spain the migrants were saved from distressed a boat in the strait of gibraltar and the arbor on sea on monday some 800000 refugees have arrived in spain so far this year down 40 percent from the previous year. at least 5 people have been killed in the bahamas as hurricane dorian inches its way towards the eastern coast of the u.s. the storm has weakened and slowed but it's still packing winds of over 200 kilometers per hour and dorian's along in destructive path over the bahamas has already left a trail of devastation and ruin. they could only watch as hurricane dorian blew their home apart. from. the pathfinder as the calming descended this family all on heart struggled to process the devastation oh i knew me and malakai their lives like thousands of others here on the abaco islands smashed to pieces the prime minister said help was on the way. to start a tragedy. mission and focus now on this search. and recovery. hurricane dorian sat on the bahamas for 36 hours pummeling this isla

has a long history of this kind of hypocrisy particularly in the middle east and north africa but i would say this administration is a little bit more blatant and less ashamed of that hypocrisy where the obama administration continued to provide military aid military support to president sisi into the government but somewhat reluctantly so and they consistently made their displeasure known to president sisi both publicly and privately and refused to embrace them in the same kind of kind of over the top way that you see from president trump but but it is true that they they more or less carried on the sort of concrete aspects of the relationship and support mostly interrupted although there were a couple suspensions following the coup in which he took power the president trying seems. you know that he doesn't sort of acknowledge this sort of discomfort in this kind of hypocrisy in his is happy to embrace sisi not only privately not only through military aide but through sort of over the top praise which can come across as unseemly. it's what we've seen became president a strong arm leader