. >> bodies of 17 people are arriving at port augusta in italy. they were found in an operation to save migrants. we go live to a port city. >> do relatives get to claim the bodies of their loved ones. what happens when they come ashore. that depends if they have noticed any kind of identification on them. it's really a challenge for anyone that deals with this who they are, and where they come from. so maybe relatives will find out. that is only if someone gives them that message. most of the bodies that arrive are unidentified and are buried here. they are given a sort of cross religious ceremony and all the honours. that you should be given during death. they are nonidentified. what is happening is the 17 bodies who were found dead two days ago in the rescue operations are about to be brought off the board. the coffins are already here and they'll be taken to the hospital. now we don't know how they died. there was no ship rec this time. so most likely they died suffocated because a lot of migrants travel below deck next to the engines, it's hot

taking you to the southern island of sicily where the bodies of 17 migrants is being taken to port augusta. more than 5,000 people have been rescued since friday. hoda abdel-hamid is live at the port. the scene behind you tells it all about the risks which people take trying to make the journey. >> absolutely. as you mentioned, 17 bodies have been found on a dingy at sea. according to the commander of the ship the italianship behind me that found them. they were dead when they arrived. there was no shipwreck, the boat had not capsized. they are investigating how the people lost their lives. it could be just because the conditions are so difficult. usually hen they travel on the rubber dinghies they are overpacked - 100 people on a 12-meter long dingy that should take at the most 10 people and they have little water or food. we saw some people uploaded to a ship earlier that had quite significant blisters some were completely exhausted, could not walk off the ship and had to be carried. you could see from that from the expression on their face that it has been an ordeal. we see the bodies t

to the italian island of sicily now, where the bodies of 17 people have arrived at port augusta, found during one of the large scale operations to save migrants in the mediterranean sea. more than 5,000 people have been rescued since friday. we have this report live from the port. what does this tell us about the journey and what they experienced? >> well, if you see just behind me the last of the 17 bodies are being taken away. they're going to go now to the hospital where they will undergo an autopsy and we are told that the doctors will also take some d.n.a. samples in case one day someone will come looking for these bodies. most of them don't have identifications on them, so it's very difficult for the authorities here to contact their families, but a third of these stories are and the risk, the very real risk is really the image of the hundreds more, thousands more, as you mentioned that will inspire more migrants to come, at least to try their chance across the mediterranean. we met a young woman from eritrea. it took her three years to make it here from the moment she left her h

. >> the bodies are 17 people have arrived at port augusta on the italian side of sicily. they were found during one of the large scale operation to say save migrants in the mediterranean sea. more than 5,000 people have been rescued since friday. >> for those migrants who make it to europe, it doesn't be always mean the end of their journey to a better life. al jazeera met up with a groove of eritrean migrant. they told of their escape and hopes for the future. >> it's a moment she's been longing for the chance for a new life away from the turmoil she was born into. her journey started across the sea, 4,000 kilometers away in eritrea. it took her nearly three years to reach the shores of europe. it's a world away from where we first met in the detention center in libya. it was a few weeks ago. she is the girl at the back in white and orange, tense and silent. there were no smiles at the time. >> the prison was awful. we knew nothing. where we were for how long, i was thinking all the time what will i do, where will i go, how. i thought it was the end. >> the day you came

. >> to sicily now, where the bodies of 17 people have arrived at port augusta. they were found during one of the large-scale operations to save migrants in the mediterranean sea. more than 5,000 people have been rescued since friday. we are live at the port. 17 bodies, any idea what happened to them and what it tells us about the sort of journey they've been on? >> well, the bodies for now have been taken to the hospital where the doctors will try to figure out the cause of this doing an autopsy. they were found onboard one of these rubber dingies that migrants often take, an overpacked rubber dingy. the commander of the boat did not know the cause but aid workers were saying with their conversations with the migrants, the story is not clear enough, but it appears that the dingy was overcrowded. there was also some fumes coming out from the engine and there was some fuel leak that go mixed into the water that was in the engine. they say that that is also what caused a lot of the blisters that we've seen, that some of the migrants coming off the boat had. some of

. >>> let's begin on the italian island of sicily where bodies of 17 people are arriving at port augusta. they were found during a large-scale operation to save migrants in the mediterranean sea. more than 5,000 have been rescued since friday. we go live to the port to hoda abdel-hamid. the picture behind you of the coffins, it tells the story of how dangerous the migration is. >> absolutely i mean it's a telling picture. the bodies of the 17 who died during the crossing should be uploaded shortly. we know from the commander of the ship behind me the italian commander, that they were found actually dead on board one of those inflatable dinghies. the circumstances of the deaths are not clear yet. but you have to understand that the people travel on a rubber dingy, there could be up to 100 people, so they squash and travel with little water or food. it could be very well that they were exhausted and dehydrated. what we witnessed over the past hour or so is that they decided to off-load first, some of the sick people. we see frail exhausted young men coming off the boat. some had to be carr

most recentness rifles were brought into the sicilian port of augusta. >>> supporting the be idea of a palestinian state when campaigning this march. innocent said israel had to recognize palestine as an independent state in order for those talks to continue. >> if the conditions change and an important part of those conditions is a willingness of the palestinians to stop the attempt to isolate and to delegitimize israel, come back to the table and negotiate the real peace then that is possible. >> meanwhile more than 2,000 couples have taken part in a mass wedding in gaza, sponsored by the turkish government. the event was to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the deadly attack by the israeli navy when it was part of a flotilla trying to braing break the gaza blockade. turkey is constructing 20 tower blocks in gaza to replace housing destroyed in israeli attacks. >>> burundi's month of violent protests after pierre nkurunziza' decision to you run for president. haru mutasa has more from the capital bujumbura. >> reporter: african leaders chose their words very carefully. some svel

is be diswhrrks sicilian port of augusta, >> correspondent hoda abdelhamid was on board and has this update. >> the bodies were taken to the hospital where they will undergo an autopsy. none of them had any i.d. so it's very difficult for authorities here to contact their families back home. eventually they will be buried in one of the cemeteries around sicily. now investigators will also question the other migrants who were on that rubber dinghy to try oput the pieces together of what happened exactly. but as sad as this story is, it is the story of the hundreds of survivors, 400 alone on this ship that inspired so many migrants to take their chance across the mediterranean. we met one young lady from eritrea, it took her three years from the model she left her home land to when she touched land on southern i.t. l. her name is salaam. this is her story. >> her journey started across the sea 4,000 kilometers away in eritrea. it took salaam nearly three years to reach the shores of europe. it is a world away from where we first met back in libya. it was a few weeks ago. salaam is the

in the neighboring port out of augusta, they have to face the resentment of the local population. >> you see them every day, the town is full of them. >> so, where are they? >> they are here, dozens of them. reporter: to father vinci, the african refugees are part of his committee. he's concerned by the hostility towards them, and what it could lead to. savlatore vinci: you see that people resent them and judge them, and of course that makes the refugees aggressive. it would have that effect on anyone. reporter: the refugees have a deeply traumatic experience behind them. here in priolo, they hope to start new lives. they, and thousands of other migrants who reached the shores of italy in recent weeks. damien mcguinness: it's really difficult to know what the answer is. some argue the rescue missions simply encourage traffickers to send more refugees out of the boats. others say this is just cynical, and that europe has a duty to help people fleeing war and oppression. that, or any of the stories on today's show by getting in touch with me on twitter. and we have a new facebook page.