more than 300,000 migrants have arrived in southern italy in less than two years in this way. he was called out to deal with that emergency. an egyptian injured his arm trying to escape the detention center. people with no chance of asylum are prepared to take desperate measures. >> some slit their wrists or jump into the sea. crazy things happen here. >> the aid workers know that not all of the migrants are political refugees with the right to asylum in europe. but almost all of them need medical assistance of some kind. the greatest cause of concern are unaccompanied minors and women with young children. >> i have met a lot of courageous women who have lost children and their partners on the journey here. the moving thing is they have consciously taken the risk of losing children or being separated from family members when they set out for europe. >> working here on a daily basis really gets you down, but you also get the feeling you are doing some good. at least, i hope that is the case. >> at the end of the visit, each patient is given a document listing their personal dat

jeffrey brown recently traveled to the olive groves of southern italy. >> brown: it's the heel of italy'sot." the salento region may be less known than the country's more famous tourist areas. but it boasts beautiful port towns and idyllic country roads lined with ancient farms, vineyards and, most of all, its renowned olive groves, some thousands of years old. >> ( translated ): for us, these are not only trees that produce olive oil, but it is the salento landscape. without these trees, salento will no longer exist. >> brown: a deadly bacteria -- dubbed "an olive ebola" -- has infected some one million trees so far, about 10% of the trees in the larger puglia province. some of those olive groves have been in families for generations. that's the case for giovanni melcarne, a grower who believes 500 of his 5,000 trees are now infected. you're fairly certain that all of this will be lost. >> ( translated ): by what we have seen so far, in the past few months, yes. >> brown: the bacteria is xylella fastidiosa, and for years has been found in a variety of plants in brazil and california. it

you see a muslim majority and even reconquer parts of what used to be muslim empire, so spain, southern italythe balkans. they want to create a society that is run by a strict interpretation of sharia. the term sharia itself is islamic law. you can interpret it many ways. there are many countries that use sharia, but there's no such thing as one sharia, the one that isis chooses is extremely strict, extremely literalist and non-flexible. so we see the society imposed where you have stoning of homosexuals, all types of punishments. this is the strategic goal that they have and a clear goal of what they want society to look like. it's a bit more complicated to see what our goals are. there's obviously the goal of stopping isis from spreading and attacking other countries because of this expansionist goal that they have. what kind of societies we want in place? i think the idea, first of all, the president bush idea was to explore democracy and democracy would be the solution to the problems of the middle east. i think that agenda has not really been followed by president obama e and, and i th w

they were brought to safety at the southern port inside italy to be processed. >>> and frustration isg thousands of cuban migrants hoping to reach the u.s. by land through central america. they spent christmas in tents in costa rica sharing a traditional holiday meal as they wait for permission to travel through nicaragua. it's a close ally of cuba and has refused to allow them to pass. costa rica is now threatening to deport the migrants. >>> fox news alert out of new york. a scare aboard a new york flight that was headed to florida today. thankfully no one was injured. this is spirit airlines flight 197 to ft. lauderdale. it never actually left the gate at laguardia when someone on the crew reported what they called a smoke emergency. rescue firefighters checked things out and found no smoke and cleared the plane. still there were 228 passengers, a total of 7 crew members, on board. they deplaned and were back inside the terminal to try to rebook some of their flights. spirit airlines will now conduct their own investigation to figure out what happened. >>> coming up, as we get read

here is analysts across the southern parts of europe, pushing across into italy, and, indeed, other areas of high pressure towards spain. and in the case of the italian high. in turin, we'll have an area of haze shrouding the sky. it's light wings, we are not mixing things up. visibility is not particularly good. it's a similar picture to madrid. a lot of hazy sunshine coming through, look at the lovely picture we had in the northern parts of hungary, as we can see mist and fog in the valleys. makes for a gorgeous landscape. temperatures in athens will fall close to freezing through sunday night. the mild air, there is some around, to the north london. and paris getting around. temperatures no smaller than 6 or 7. monday night temperatures of a similar value. south madrid 2 degrees celsius. certainly cold enough for a touch of frost. as we go through the next couple of days, as you can see, the sun shine coming down 14 celsius in athens, around 16 by the time of tuesday. it will be the same for london >>> everton, thanks. you're watching the newshour, i'm peter doby, still to come - peopl

newest solar power complex in southern central morocco has a capacity of 500 megawatts of electricity, the first building block in the national solar energy program. >> an italympreza development is the wind farm in southwestern morocco, -- n equally impressive development as the wind farm in southwestern morocco, has a capacity of more than 300 megawatts. >> morocco also emphasizes the massive introduction of natural gas as part of it industry strategy. over the next five years, it will install infrastructure to make liquefied natural gas more available. >> while morocco is taking measures to meet growing demand for both primary energy and electricity, this very demanded also the outcome of a successful program of nationwide electrification. >> demand for electricity growth by 7% to 8% annually, driven by morocco's expanding energy sector. implementation into the technology sector is moving into deep integration with the global knowledge economy. makes itrocc a cornerstone of the economy . >> morocco is already leading the way in outsourcing and off shoring. it's best known off shoring project is a result of a $341 million investment by med sourcing. the dev

italy was something like 3400. deeply unfair, unequal system that privileged immigration from northern and western europe, disadvantaged immigration from southern and eastern europe but also bars almost every asian immigrant group. and, you know, we could go back to the 1880s to talk about those laws. so this is an explicitly discriminatory, race-based system that the law abolished. >> what were the political forces that led to this legislation? >> to the '65? >> the '65. >> well, the 1964 elections created a super majority in both houses of democrats. it was the largest democratic majority since the new doeal. so that's legislative, now, but what accounts for that super majority, that land slide, in fact, what it changed in the electoral map and the population was the rise of euro-american ethnics, what we would call white ethnics, slavic americans, the people who worked in the factories. the children of the people who had come before the turn of the century. they were now a voting block. they were active members of the aflcio unions. they had to be reckoned with. and so for that reason, the second and third generation of the european immigran

italy was something like 3400. deeply unfair, unequal system that privileged immigration from northern and western europe, disadvantaged immigration from southernnd eastern europe but also bars almost every asian immigrant group. and, you know, we could go back to the 1880s to talk about those laws. so this is an explicitly discriminatory, race-based system that the law abolished. >> what were the political forces that led to this legislation? >> to the '65? >> the '65. >> well, the 1964 elections created a super majority in both houses of democrats. it was the largest democratic majority since the new doeal. so that's legislative, now, but what accounts for that super majority, that land slide, in fact, what it changed in the electoral map and the population was the rise of euro-american ethnics, what we would call white ethnics, slavic americans, the people who worked in the factories. the children of the people who had come before the turn of the century. they were now a voting block. they were active members of the aflcio unions. they had to be reckoned with. and so for that reason, the second and third generation of the european immigrants