A stand against environmental destruction. Ill have all your sport. Find out why the six time olympic Gold Medalist was less than happy with his first race of the season, coming up in this news hour. The Italian Coast Guard is rushing to answer yet another distress call in the mitt terrainian. Two vessels carrying hundreds of people are in danger of sinking off the libyan coast. Yet another boat has smashed into rocks off the greek island. Three people have been confirmed dead, a man a woman and a child. It all adds to the crisis at e. U. Foreign ministers meet. We have reports where that meeting is taking place. We start with paul brennan. Another day and another incident in the mediterranean. What are you hearing about this . The details are still sketchy at the moment and still coming in. What we have been told is there are either two or three boats. It dependency on which report is most reliable. With as many as 300 on each, the International Organization for migration received a d
His fault. Plus a reporter for the Washington Post is in prison in iran charged with spying. The European Union has laid out a set of measures responding to the migrant crisis in the mediterranean. Patrol operations will be strengthened and more money will be spent on destroying smuggler boats. As a boat ran aground off the greek coast. Paul brennan has been following developments. Reporter being battered by waves clinging to whats left of their boat at the bottom of the screen here a woman is seen trying to protect a young child. Recent attention has been focused on africans trying to reach italian waters. This child was saved but three people are already confirmed dead including another youngster. Its not known how many are still missing. The captain left us with the boat and ran away and left us alone. He ran away with another boat . I dont know. Maybe. I think so. This small rubber boat do you know what this is . He got in and just ran. He left you alone . Yes. Reporter the bodies
Kirschner. Italian prosecutors say they have arrested the captain and the first mate of a boat that capsized off the coast of libya. Survivors from saturdays accident have now arrived in sicily but its feared that after 900 that up to 900 others drowned. The italian Prime Minister says europe must Work Together to stop my grant from being exploited by traffickers on a journey that he calls death traps. Reporter of the hundreds on board the boat they had hoped would take them to a new life. These are the few who made it. Just 27 migrants out of as many asinine hundred 50. Arriving in the sicilian port late monday night and clearly exhausted by their ordeal, they were met by emergency workers. Among the survivors were the boats tunisia januari train and syrian first mate. Prosecutors say they have both been charged over the sinking. Translator we carried out two arrest war ends of suspected traffickers the captain of the ship that cap sides capsized ask a member of the crew. Charging wit