on a clear day one can see sicily from goes over and likewise one can see gold so from sicily so one must assume that. there was a degree of curiosity in the people from sicily just wandering us toward this land was that lays slightly beyond the horizon. however. it's hard to grasp why people would decide to leave such a fertile island of sicily and in order to occupy and colonize somewhere that was far away. the first to arrive were probably explorers perhaps then followed by their families. about two thousand years later some of the residents started building temples. the origins of these monumental structures are still shrouded in mystery some of these limestone blocks way up to twenty tons they could turn to dust before we find out more about them. a marine archaeologist at the university of montana is trying to preserve the ruins. here he's photographing some of them. garvin converts the photos to three d. animated images. this is what the temples might have looked like. but he says he's running out of time to complete his work. what's incredible is that the rate of erosion has

for two years this harbor in eastern sicily was the home base for the aquarius.ce italy closed its ports to such vessels, the "aquarius" has been forced to sail 600 miles away to marseille in france to re-supply and undertake repairs. that's a long way from the danger zone. the doctors without borders spokesperson on board sent us a statement complaining about the criminalisation and obstructiono anizations involved in r search andcue. in just over a month, more than 600 people have lost their live attemptingoss the aiditerranean. the spokespersonthere has been a cold blooded decision to leave them all to drown. claudilodesani heads the italian chapter of doctors without borders. she's been at town hetings trying to urge people to reject the governnt's policies. lodesani rejects allegations that ships like e e "aquarius" oviding a taxi service for migrants. >> i worked for a year in southern sudan. in one year, i see a lot of people dead because there is a civil war, because there is malaria, because of climate change and climatic problems so the people have maln

then at last to the help they've been waiting for arrives from sicily the tables are turned the sultan's army demoralized by the long struggle flees from the island in panic. thanks. thanks. to. the whole of europe rejoiced at the victory of the aggressively expansionist also mints and knights of sin john was celebrated as the saviors of the christian occident brave defenders of the faith in gratitude and to protect the island better against future attacks pope pius the fourth sent them one of his best architects francesco. the people of michelangelo an expert in the construction of fortifications. according to his design on the back hills of mount scabrous i found him into being the first in the modern era to be conceived on a drawing board. valletta. like a grade twelve streets around the breadth and nine the length of what was until then of a can spit of land and crowning the whole development at the point of the problem tree was fought and so bitterly fought over in the famous scene which. for all its jim actually plant the town has nothing static or rigid about it the up and down of

migrants were stranded on an italian coast guard ship in sicily please determinist for material sodini says he won't let the migrants all vote so he says he wants more clarity over what happened when an italian tugboat rescued them off the waters of libya he says the migrants hijacked the ship. holding a general strike on friday as part of a three day protest against president and your take the demonstrators have already march through the capital managua two hundred sixty four people have been killed in three months of unrest that was first triggered by anger over pension reforms around the santos as more. this is the beginning of three days are long road to here in the now whether people believe me got out walk the our lion's the a civic alliance a group made up of businessmen students farmers civil society they are marching against a president to say other world would pressuring their government some of them want the government to hold early elections not in two thousand and twenty one but in two thousand and nineteen but many others want president miller think up to resign immediate

of the other stories making news around the world they're also fast on the northeastern coast of sicily high temperatures and strong winds on the italian island are not only strengthening the fires but making the job firefighters more difficult threatening homes and businesses north of the city of katanning. israel has shut down a syrian fire suggests the israeli military says it five to surface to air missiles after the plane strayed into its aspace over the israeli occupied golan heights syria disputes this and the plane was conducting operations against you harvests in southern syria. the democratic republic of congo has declared its outbreak over the disease is believed to have killed thirty three people since april but the last reported case was forty two days ago the world health organization congolese authours is distributed an experimental vaccine to more than three thousand three hundred people. the mayor of syria that twat is in the message and state of chihuahua says the bodies of thirty five people and thirty five men and five women have been discovered most of them unidenti

and idyllic beach in southern sicily in the distance just on the horizon one of two ships carrying a total of more than four hundred fifty migrants. they were rescued from a barge floating in the mediterranean. italy's interior minister met tales salvini doesn't want them disembarking on italian soil saying baltar should take them instead on facebook he wrote malta the people smugglers the italian do gooders and the whole world should know that the ship cannot and should not enter an italian port initially malta refused entry but later a deal was struck in which malta france and then germany agreed to take in refugees but still leaving hundreds in limbo selvi is one of the leaders of the italian far right party the northern league he said that he wants to put an end to the arrival of refugees in italy once and for all but there is growing resistance amongst italians to his hard line immigration policy here at the baobab camp in rome volunteers provide refugees with basic services the italian authorities have continually tried to clear the camps but the volunteers continue to return a

take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world the northeastern coast of sicily is burning high temperatures and strong winds on the italian island not only strengthening the fires but also making the job of firefighters more difficult the fires are threatening homes and businesses north of the city of katanning. turkey's president very tired one has praised him as a decision to quit germany's national football team the star midfielder who has to his roots made the announcement at the weekend and was heavily criticized back in may for posing for a photograph with iran during the referendum campaign criticism that he says quickly turned to racism and disrespect from the public and the media. democratic republic of congo has declared its abdalla outbreak over the disease is believed to have killed thirty three people since april last reported case was forty two days ago the world health organization congolese will force is distributed an experimental vaccine to more than three thousand three hundred people. on a list in the united states a north korea has begun dis

several dozen migrants have been allowed to disembark from an italian coast guard ship in sicily they were initially held on the ship over suspicions that some had been involved in an attempted mutiny a number reportedly tried to take over fearing they would be returned to libya incident comes amid heightened tensions in europe on the issue of migration. pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif and his daughter mariam are due to return to their country thousands of police officers have been deployed in lahore to control crowds both have been sentenced to jail terms over the family's finances back to galvanize their political party out of this month's general election. an explosion at a chemical plant in china has killed nineteen people and injured twa. according to state media the blast happened in an industrial park several hours southeast of shang to the capital of the southwestern sichuan province it's not clear what caused the explosion. hundreds of pro-democrat activists have held a memorial ceremony in hong kong to mark the first anniversary of the death of the chinese dissident li

several dozen migrants have been allowed to disembark from an italian coast guard ship in sicily they were initially held on the ship over suspicions that some had been involved in an attempted mutiny a number reportedly tried to take over fearing day would be returned to libya the incident comes amid heightened tensions in europe on the issue of migration. in syria state television reported that government forces have raised the national flag over parts of daraa city that had previously been in rebel hands for years the flag was raised over the post office which is the only government building in the area durai in the south of the country was the birthplace of the end up rising in two thousand and eleven and as were the last rebel strongholds. a look at the latest with correspondent standing by for us in beirut so do syrian government forces now house control of daraa. well absolutely the syrian government has control of that up a lot of people would move deeper into the territory of closer to the border they share with jordan have started returning all the rebels have agreed to evac

news around the world several dozen refugees have disembarked from an italian coast guard ship in sicily italian prosecutors are questioning them over reports that some of them had been involved in an attempted mutiny a number allegedly tried to hijack the vessel fearing they would be returned to libya the incident comes amid heightened tensions in europe over refugee policy. an explosion at a chemical plant in china has killed nine hundred people and injured twelve according to state media the blast happened in an industrial park several hours southeast of chengdu the capital of the south western sichuan province it's not yet clear what caused the explosion. at least ten people have been killed in landslides in of ghana stan north of the capital it happened in the early hours of thursday morning local time destroying hundreds of houses authorities said at least ten villages have been affected more flooding is expected in the coming days. pakistan's former prime minister nawaz sharif is due to arrive in lahore shortly to face arrest on corruption charges last week a pakistani court sente

right now i had a tend me about an italian author who was writing about an inspector on the island of sicily, and so i downloaded the first book and they are such fun. find all these mystery detective novels that take place the different countries so it's not just the story but also the place and people that are part of it. this particular author, camilari, has so much -- it's very italian. the people that are in the book, the inspector himself, is very volume ubel and tremendous mood swings and has loyal police group and always solves the case. enjoy it as much for him and the place. so knew i think i making my way into the fifth book there are 20 or cycle know i won't do all of them but i've done that with many other detective/mystery writers from across the globe. but i sprinkle it if with more serious literature, recently i read a book that a friend told me about, wonderful, wonderful book about a man who is under house arrest in the mid-1920s and his life in this lovely, beautiful, old world hotel in moscow, and then a book called "the door," which i think is in hungary, takes place in

from sicily and britain have to also started an offensive last month against a rival group for control of export to those. there have been celebrations in thailand after a dramatic underwater cave rescue mission succeeded in saving the lives of twelve boys and their football coach. who could have been gathering outside the hospital to thank the elite team of thai and foreign doctors who conducted the dangerous mission over three days the boys and their coaching are recovering in hospital and after having spent seventeen days on the ground those are the headlines al-jazeera world continues next. i've was. was thank you. thank you. thank. you. so how. come. you. hadn't. meant. to. suppress it enough us because we want. a new job. and it was ok for. us to. sing. it on. the two nights in st you. could. literally want to make all of us and still look good to us but i would buy all the records. are the only member who i've got. this one up to my family trust me. i'll just. have to get something new that some people. wincing with more so some tissue left. on an assignment can remove anything

the italian island of lampedusa south of sicily. a legendary destination for migrants. a corner of europe within reach of africa. the most recent shipwreck still lies on the seabed. tens of thousands of men women and children have drowned while attempting to reach europe. our very own mediterranean has become one great graveyard. how many over there are waiting to cross the mediterranean. so far there have been more than a million. why do they do it and i do we do nothing. but a kenyan one producer i wait for the aquarius vessel chartered by the european humanitarian organization s.o.s. meditative any. this isn't a ship like others it's more an idea borne of a discussion between a german merchant navy captain and a french humanitarian people are drowning in the mediterranean they said they must be saved to do that we need a boat europe's doing nothing let's do it ourselves. with winter drawing to a close migrants are getting ready for the arduous crossing the aquarius his head. on its first mission joining its crew of volunteers doctors and sailors by board to experienc

one of the major materials comes from a thistle might not be the kind of car do so this will from sicily in. fifteen years ago someone came up with the idea of using this plant commercially if the move in for. oil is expected from the seeds to produce the bags it takes centuries for a normal plastic bag to break down but under the right conditions it can take just six months to a year for a compostable bag to decompose. they are still straws. personally for plates. compatible bags small steps towards a world with less plastic. and i'm sure we all agree these are small steps in the right direction and that's all from focus on europe this time around thanks so much for joining us and if you'd like to see any of our reports again just go to our home page on d w dot com forward slash focus on europe oh visit our facebook page stories and to come back next time around until then bye bye and ships. thank. you. thank. you. thanks. thank you neal good the be. the best . the above. the bowl or the a. coupe of the on. the book thing the book. the be. the for. an ngo ship carrying the bodies of two

several dozen refugees have disembarked from an italian coast guard ship in sicily italian prosecutors are questioning them over reports that some had been involved in an attempted mutiny a number legit to try to hijack the vessel fearing they would be returned to libya the incident comes amid heightened tensions in europe over refugee policy. officials in kenya say eight black rhinos have died after y. live workers moved them from the capital nairobi to a new national park kenya's wildlife ministry believes the animals died from drinking too much sortie water after becoming dehydrated the species is critically endangered there just a few thousand left in the wild. a man alleged to be a former bodyguard of terrorist leader osama bin laden was today deported from germany to his home country tunisia but now a german court has ruled that he must be brought back again the man identified only as he was flown back to his homeland despite a court order blocking his removal the suspected islamist had been living in germany for several years with his wife and children but he was arrested in jun

had an nice framed picture with a map of the uk, that is where she and her husband met and a map of sicilyrry says i gave the cake asa married. kerry says i gave the cake as a present because the couple didn't want anything else. troy says i saw on didn't want anything else. troy says isaw ona didn't want anything else. troy says i saw on a wedding this, read, matching underwear. apparently they didn't try them on in front of the guests, which is probably a good thing. and the best give billy never get that ever gave was for divorce services. there is a nice thought on a monday morning. let's kick off with this story in the guardian, librarians up in arms at the suggestion amazon should replace libraries, said they are protesting, very quietly. yes, this article by forbes saying libraries haven't delivered what they should so they should be replaced by amazon book stores. librarians up in arms by saying they do services that amazon won't do and they are a benefit to the taxpayer. two sides to the story and a possible solution is a partnership between amazon and libraries to drag them into

one of the major materials comes from a thesaurus not the kind of car do still from sicily in. fifteen years ago someone came up with the idea of using this plant commercially the more. or less extracted from the seeds to produce the bags it takes centuries for a normal plastic bag to break down but under the right conditions it can take just six months to a year for a composite of a bag to decompose. stainless steel straws. pearlie flights. compatible bags small steps towards a world with less plastic. and i'm sure we all agree these are small steps in the right direction and that's all from focus on europe this time around thanks so much for joining us and if you'd like to see any of our reports again just go to our home page on t.w. dot com forward slash focus on europe oh visit our facebook page stories and to come back next time around until then bye bye and ships. thank you. thank. you you. thank. the be. an. odd. japanese lounge on europe in concert. rebels running wild on stage still blocking the mental model of. the bus system as. the band titled dreams. good comes fro

the world several dozen migrants have been allowed to disembark from an italian coast guard ship in sicily they were initially held on the ship over suspicions that some had been involved in an attempted mutiny a number of portably tried to take over fearing they would be returned to libya the incident comes amid heightened tensions in europe on the issue of migration. out of the pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif and his daughter miriam are due to return to their country thousands of police officers have been deployed in lahore to control crowds both have been sentenced to jail terms over the family's finances are back to galvanize their political party at this month's general election. the former bodyguard of the notorious terrorist leader osama bin laden has been deported from germany back to tunisia the man identified only as sami a has been living in germany since one nine hundred ninety seven he was arrested at the end of june following an outcry at the fact that he was still in the country some of bin laden was the leader of the terrorist group al qaeda he was killed by u.s. spec

interior minister matty are solving it says he well let the migrants off the ship which is docked in sicily until there is clarity over what happened when an italian tugboat rescued them over the weekend salvini says the migrants who allegedly threatened their rescue crew are criminals who hijacked the ship off libya's waters. austria and germany are looking to plug the gaps in their shared border to stop hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants getting in but i have to find a way around the shang and zone agreement which ensures border fee travel within the european union is a heated issue in both countries i think collapse of the german coalition government earlier this month from varia dominant came of course. mention migration of meetings of e.u. leaders these days and many assume they're talking about stricter rules and allowing fewer people in certainly that's true for these three men the interior ministers of austria italy and germany. i think the three of us agree that we want to restore order in an area where for much too long disorder reigned from here we want to send a clea

the world several dozen migrants have been allowed to disembark from an italian coast guard ship in sicily they were initially held on the ship over suspicions that some had been involved in the attempted mutiny a number reportedly tried to take over fearing they would be returned to libya the incident comes amid heightened tensions in europe on the issue of migration. at least ten people have been killed in landslides in afghanistan north of the capital kabul it happened in the early hours of thursday morning local time destroying hundreds of houses authorities said at least ten villages have been affected more flooding is expected in the coming days. and chilean police have arrested former catholic priest oscar munoz in january when years admitted to having sexually abused children this is the first arrest to be made since authorities launched a major investigation into abuse cases in the church earlier this year prosecutors say there are more than five victims. and an explosion at a chemical plant in china has killed nineteen people and injured twelve according to state media the blast

several dozen migrants have been allowed to disembark from an italian coast guard ship in sicily they were initially held on the ship over suspicions that some had been involved in an attempted mutiny a number reportedly tried to take over thiering there would be returned to libya the incident comes amid heightened tensions in europe on the issue of migration. at least ten people have been killed in landslides in afghanistan north of the capital kabul it happened in the early hours of thursday morning local time destroying hundreds of houses authority said at least ten villages have been affected more flooding is expected in the coming days. in syria state television reported that government forces have raised the national flag over parts of daraa city that had previously been in rebel hands for years the flag was raised over the post office which is the only government building in the area of the south of the country was the birthplace of the rising in two thousand and eleven and is one of the last rebel strongholds to look at the latest with correspondent standing by for us in beiru

future throughout the mediterranean apart from a few showers developing you know of a greece maybe sicily if you're lucky it's typically going to be hot sunshine going on shore breeze is still thirty seven into mr and thirty six in car. the weather sponsored by cattle race. where were you when the hot engine or when they're on line. chief call. up again inequality in our society today or if you join the sunset criminal justice system is dysfunctional right now this is a dialogue what does it feel like to go back for the first time everyone has a voice and allow refugees to be the speakers for a change join the conversation announces iraq. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera i'm so whole robin a reminder of our top stories pakistani cricketer turned politician imran khan is inching closer to victory in wednesday's general election but he will need allies to form a government his opponents say the vote was rigged to favor him under threatening agitation the official results are expected very soon. an internal israeli military report is a fact to find no grounds for further investigation

aid for palestinians is living pole irmo and it's only it will make its way down to miss siena in sicily before heading for gaza the freedom flotilla coalition campaign says its goal is to peacefully and the israeli blockade it's expected to take just one week reach israeli waters. is live for us now in west jerusalem and what kind of things are a result saying today after yesterday's violence. well i think what's interesting is the israeli officials we've been speaking with are not calling it a ceasefire they are saying in fact that calm has been restored in israel's border with gaza they are saying that activities are returned to normal but they are not calling it a ceasefire now hamas also wasn't going to cease fire when they were talking about this cease fire for all intents and purposes that's what it is but it is a very shaky truce at this point now we did hear about one incident that happened several hours ago in gaza the israeli army released a statement saying that a number of suspects infiltrated israel from the northern gaza strip the suspects then return to the gaza strip in

many parts of europe still burning obviously we had the horrific ones in greece but these are in sicily with others in parts of italy with more in parts of the u.k. and also they're still burning in sweden in fact in sweden where we've had wildfires for weeks we've now taken the rather drastic step of forming them as you heard that right we had laser guided missiles bombing a particular part of sweden where the fires were very difficult to get to and it works a little bit like blowing the candles out of a birthday cake and it did work the fires were extinguished around one hundred meters from impact so still incredibly hot then over the western parts of europe but there is a little bit of a change on the way you can see the flatley less hot to watch the far northwest over ireland there and that starts to more clout that's gradually rolling its way eastwards unfortunately ahead of that we're seeing the winds all sucked up from the south that we thunderstorms in the uk but if you don't see a thunderstorm it's going to be even hotter. the weather sponsored by qatar airways . young man join

didn't spoke about it because afraid they didn't spoke loudly or public the more secret weapon of sicily seeing to put the people in field in europe or just feel to head up a. few. this secret weapon it was a assad regime. to make the people are silent. marzan darwish also has a photo of missing lawyer to con his war longside photos of friends and colleagues who have likewise disappeared darwish is a lawyer and activist for the syrian center for media and freedom of expression. darwish founded the center in damascus in two thousand and four when it was raided for a third time in twenty twelve the air force intelligence service arrested fourteen staff including darwish and his wife yet out of baghdad. after being the last to be released in twenty fifteen he fled to berlin since then he has been continuing the struggle to ensure a democratic and peaceful syria. growth. faces a scandal for. torture. bad condition and the families who feel that they. are ignored and nobody care about their suffering. and really if we don't find. justice a solution for those people who feel guilty them just t

. >> nearly 200 mie gallants safe in sicily this morning after being rescued at sea. the ordeal started on friday when a boat was launched from libya. the italian position changed after prime minister had written to all european members asking them to accept some of the refugees france and malta said they would take 50 each, spain and germany making a similar pledge. italy received a quarter of a mill applications for asylum last year and the year before. >> the coast guard rescued the family of four near the old concord naval weapon station. they received a distress call saturday afternoon. a chopper had to lift each family member to safety. the shallow water prevented the boat crews from reaching their vessel. parents and their two children were flown to concord and fortunately nobody injured. >>> let's check in with sal, on this monday morning commute, how does it look? >> we're off to a good start for the most part and northbound 101 we're looking at the gilroy super commute. looks good here from gilroy and holster, this whole area driving up into san jose. a lot

sicily had not happened yet and the assessment of the north africa landings was that they had succeededagainst resistance by luck both the american commanders and british commanders agreed that. they also had no defined strategical they were not given any knowledge of what resources they would have for this operation. with nobody named supreme allied commander they did not have an operational champion. there was one thing they did no which was some of their superiors really did not want them to succeed and they were right in that. however cross back the name of this organization was comprised of younger british american and canadian officers who were eager to work together and take the fight back to the continent and they could and they did set aside the frictions and suspicion that affected their seniors together. at the first all hands meeting their commander purposely ended his remarks with what the british chief of the imperial general staff had said to him after giving cross orders he said well, there it is and it won't work but you must bloodied well make it. well, morgan's office

midsized communities and industrial communities and they were not incessantly republican, they were in sicily democrat that made available by the leftward shift of the democratic party and perhaps it was instinct on donald trump's part. i think all of his rantings and ravings how he might run third-party, the republican party is mistreating me, that with the signal whether intentional or not, to these people who had never voted republican to think he's not much of a republican at all and made them an entry-level product to buy on the republican shelf. >> i want to talk about a theme that is not gone away since the president was inaugurated, the ongoing tension between voters and the media. we see it in a different form between democratic voters and the so-called mainstream media but given only one president at a time and talking about donald trump and even this week he tweeted about this idea of doing something he can't do which is take away press credentials granted by the government although some people wonder if he was talking about taking away press credentials if he doesn't think the cov