Four survivors originally from the ivory coast and guinea gave their accounts to coastguards after being brought ashore. The three men and a woman had initially been rescued by a cargo ship. On monday, according to a recent report from the International Organisation for migration at least 4m refugees drowned between january and march, marking the deadliest three month period since 2017. The report also reveals over the past decade, the Mediterranean Sea has claimed around 25,000 lives. These grim numbers do not fully capture the extent of the tragedy as the actual death toll might be even higher. In recent days there have been a number of rescues from the island and these pictures from the weekend Show Rescue Workers helping migrants in trouble on the lampedusa coast. 0ur rome correspondent sofia bettiza has been following the story. This is not the first tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea this year. As you mentioned, we do know that 41 migrants died, and they were killed in a shipwreck
the amazon biome, the reduction in deforestation was substantial and that that has to be considered. but at the same time, the central savannas in brazil, has increased its deforestation. so the challenge now is to work the leakages. so the command and control activities in the amazon, they have to reflect command and control activities in other biomes such as other biomes in brazil, such as the pa nta nal too. so we don t want to see a pressure going into the amazon and leakage and criminals leaking to the other biomes, as we have seen in the in the first month of these years. so i think there s still a homework to be delivered by lula s administration. that was andr guimar es, the executive director of the amazon environmental research institute speaking to me earlier. over a0 people have been hurt after an explosion at an industrial site near moscow with six in intensive care. zagorsk optical plant has now been
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