South africas zulu king denies hes to blame of the crisis. Despite the recent outbreak of violence in yoach. Ethiopia. Well the European UnionsForeign Policy chief says Member States must act on the mediterranean migrant crisis as ships responded to distress calls from two more boats which are carrying some 400 people. Maltese, are starting to bring board the survivors only ahandful of survivors there with one of them suggesting that as many as 950 people were actually on board. On monday, the sailboat carrying migrants ran aground off the greek island of rhodes before breaking up. The greek coast guard said three people are drown and 90 people were rescued. Europeans are meeting to produce what they call is a ten point action plan. Paul brennan reports from catania, Southern Island of sicily. Being battered by waves clinging to whats left of her boat a woman tries to protect a young child. Attention focused on migrants leaving north africa for italian waters this boat hit rocks off the greek island of rhodes. Not known how many others are still missing. On ma ta bodies malta bodies are being brought ashore. 24 corpses have been recovered but as many as 900 drowned when think capsized off the coast of libya on saturday night. Of the hundreds on board just 28 were saved. Those survivors are on their way to the sicilian port of catania. Deadly period for migrants crossing to europe. Some 11,000 people have been rescued in the last ten days but an estimated 1500 people have drown in the attempt. The compassion with which sicilians regard these migrants, with this memorial is a monument for those who dont make it. There are 15 graves of adults and two of children. The names of people in these graves will never be known but the words on them are the words of the poet laureate from nigeria, and the hope is that the rest of europe now can see a similar degree of empathy as is being shown here. At a meeting of europes Foreign Ministers, a ten point plan, that increase still not be enough to restore operations to last years level of resourcing. There will be a european summit meeting on thursday. How many more migrants will have died by then . Paul brennan, al jazeera catania, sicily. Strengthening the mission in niger, to keep migrants moving from there to liberia. Where they are sent on boats. Getting eu nations to share responsibility for the settlement and relocation of refugees. Today we have a new european level of awareness that this is a european issue. Not of single Member States. And that we need to act. To act fast and to act united. This is not just a call from some but a response from all. Heres dominic kane our correspondent covering that meeting in luxembourg. The uleader summit as it were, donald tusk has called for immediate action, a statement his presidency released to the media not long ago. It is a feeling from the meetings, all day we have had the Foreign Ministers and the interior ministers thats giving you the importance that the uhas placed on the meeting. How much resources will they really put into some sort of success tooror to tritan. In success of mare nostrum. It was the cost the Italian Government said it could no longer bear. We understand from one source that the try tritan may perhaps be doubled, will that be enough . Given the wave of migrants that weve heard just this year. We heard earlier the secretarygeneral, ban kimoon twice the number crossing the mediterranean twice the number ton titanic. See the overcrowding on the boat the smiles on the faces of some of these people, they are the ones that actually made it. Barnaby phillips, from cattleania, southern port of sicily even as we speak 24 hours a day these migrants are trying to get out of their countries, most of them from libya and the rescue operations are never ending. Reporter never ending david, thats right. The italian Prime Minister mateo renzi spoke today of two more ships being in distress off the libyan coast. One he believed had perhaps 100 150 people on board. Another had some 300 people on board. We know the Italian Coast Guard were heading towards those ships, those boats but we havent heard anything since. In the meantime, the aftermath from that tragic event from saturday night sunday morning is still being played out. Bodies were taken to the island of malta some 20 bodies and then there are the survivors only believed to be 28 of them and they will arrive here on catania, on the dock behind me during some stage during the night in sicily. Barnaby, we talked about how invisible the people may be, but one specific option put forward by eu, go to the country in africa youve met these sort of people that want to get out. Reporter well, these kind of interventions can make some difference in some certain situations niger is an important country because it is a gateway up to libya and nigeria, the most populace country in Subsaharan Africa. It would be a useful route to block off. If it were only that simple, david. Mateo renzi has spoken about the need to stabilize the situation in europe. What an enormous task that would be. At the same time it would have to be done without European Union troops having any presence on the ground. So that seems an almost impossible task, when the political means to ceash it out are socarry it outare so limited. As we have been following the story in the mediterranean over the years its a story of ebb and flows. Youll block one route and migrants will find another route. Three or four years ago there were a lot more migrants coming across the land border, that was omuch more important route than the libyan water route. Subsequent to the downfall of Moammar Gadhafi this route has become much more used. As long as you have difficulties in the Subsaharan Africa and the terrible tragedies human rights abuses this flow of human misery of desperation of young people looking to improve their lives in europe will continue. Barnaby phillips, thank you a report there from sicily. Is now in the news hour, we return to yemen an explosion rocked the capital air strikes targeting a scud missile base, used by houthi fighters. Massive blasts flattening nearby buildings but also a Saudi Border Guard has been killed, two others wounded by heavy gun and mortar fire from yemen. Saudi arabia sis it is stepping up security in areas after receiving threats. Killing thousands of houthis the United Nations estimates 750 people overall have been killed. Take a look at this. Footage showing the moment of the explosion in sa florida l sanaa. 46 people believed to have been killed, more than 300 wounded. Residents say its one of the worst things theyve seen since the strikes began four weeks ago. Translator we were close by and we heard a bang and then after a moment we heard a big explosion. Translator when we arrived here to help our colleagues and the people there was a big explosion and we found shells over the whole area. The munition hit our homes. This is what the cowards use to bombard civilians. Lets establish contact with the political analyst in yemens exam sanaa. Hisham, we are talking to you not as an analyst but as somebody who survived that blast. You were very close and now youre sheltering with some friends where you think it is the safest place. Tell us what happened when the munitions went up. The problem is we dont have air Defense Systems air raid sirens that warned us of the blast were the air strikes. Was it sudden and very surprising and what we learned of it is the air wave pushing us knocking us off. I was Drinking Coffee next to the window and the window exploded in my face. Tried to run downstairs and the earth was shaking. The whole building was shaking and im almost four kilometers away from the epicenter of the explosion. You can imagine how bad it was for places near the explosion. You and the other people close by did you know this was a base allegedly used by the houthis and it could therefore be a possible target in the air strikes . Well, weve known that there are some weapons stashed a depot of some sorts we did not know there were scud there. However, when people are saying theres strikes targeting something in the residential areas, it is not about the bomb unloaded from the jets, its what about the explosion the ensuing explosion from those depots like the case today the bomb goes large but the ensution explosion was hue humongous. A lot of people died, a lot of homes were destroyed. A not are angry at the coalition for knowing that depot while being amidst civilians. We have been looking at an area some buildings flock down and debris everywhere. Tell us about your daily life which i imagine now is only going to get more difficult. Yes, it is. Its actually sat. Today when we tried to are rescue some people get them to hospitals, there are no cars on the streets because theres no gas. We tried as soon as possible to get people to the hospital, as soon as we got to the hospital there was no blood bank because theres no electricity for the past six days so the blood in the blood bank went foul. We went around asking people to donate blood. The electricity in the hospital could not run because the backup generators did not have gas. It was catastrophic. The hospital was basically helpless. Well, it sounds absolutely horrendous for you and everybody else there. Thank you for getting in touch with us, thats hisham alamesi. Thank you. Thank you. Size of the explosions caused by strikes on houthis chose that houthis shows that the hughts are in possession of houthis are in possession of scud missiles. Including areas where Ballistic Missiles were being stored. Many of the launchers were destroyed. Some rockets stored in caves. The size of the operation shows there must have been some scud missiles inside, everyone knows scud uses liquid fuel. It confirms there was missiles and everyone knows some, is controlled by the houthi militia. It was easy for us to start aarticulating. Come north to aden, which has seen some of the worst fighting since the offensive began Government Forces have made some gains but houthis are continuing their push. This report is by zeina khodr. Reporter aden is one of many battle grounds in yemen. For weeks the city has been suffering major air strikes. Not only have they seized several important buildings in aden but with the help of the Saudi Led Coalition air strikes they have managed to expand their control. They came and invade our territory. They humiliated us and they took our money. They came with their weapons. So many women have become widows and so many children now are or fans. The humanitarian situation is worsening, there is a lack of fuel and essentially like food and water. And those in aden are not the only ones suffering. Wounded keep pouring into hospitals and they can no longer cope and they fear the hospital may no longer receive patients. Efforts to find a political solution has so far failed. The leader of the houthis has rejected a call for ceasefire and no sign of backing down. Translator the saudi regime has absolutely no right interfering in our issue. This is our problem our country our regime and we should determine our fate and we should choose our government and we as yemenis should decide our gem. Prohadi forces may have regained parts of aden, but this is one of many front lines in yemen. Zeina khodr, al jazeera. Stay with us if you can. We have this coming up. Accused of opening fire on civilians, massive new road which will extend chinas influence from pakistan to the arabian sea. The nhl playoffs there. South africas zulu king condemned a wave of antiimmigrant attacks describing them as vile. Supporters listen to him at a rally in durbin calling for calm and denying those allegations that he told the migrants to get out. The zulu king has been accused of fueling the unrest. He says the comment has been taken out of context. This war i am calling for irrespective of which country they are from. Like i said last week, if these reports of me calling for war were true then this country would be in ashes. Very much a speech of peace and reconciliation here by the zulu king. He called for what he described as a new war a war to protect all foreign narnls, in south africa or this huge wave of xenophobic attacks. Misinterpreting his statements last month which have been blamed for sparking this violence. He said that the perpetrators of this violence should be cawd and punishedcaughtand punished and brought to justice. Its an embarrassment for them to be accused and south africa havent learned from that mistake yet. For example the genocide in rwanda he went so far as to mention that, how south africa and africa as a continent was deeply damaged by such violence. Very much a message of peace and reconciliation here and its hoped that soon the kings speech would be doing something to quell these attacks. Antigovernment, demonstrations dublin says a trainee policeman was seriously hurt they believe because of the fragile security situation in the country. Three people died in protests earlier this month. The united has United Nations has report an attack, four somali s and three german nationals employees of the u. N. Childrens organization unicef. Somali president has called it a direct acontaminate on the fiber of the country. Restsveflts ofrelatives of some of the Ethiopian Group posted videos of the deaths of about 30 men on social media website. Some being beheaded on a beach and others being shot in scrub land. The Ethiopian Government has confirmed they were citizens and there will be a Memorial Service on wednesday. I have never seen such a barbaric act. It is a reutdless attack ruthless attack. Howp can something so horrible happen to human kind, how why . Our sorrows are great we are very sad not just neighbors but but ethiopians. They saw the post on facebook. When a human being is slaughtered like a sheep its disgraceful. They will keep to a ceasefire, committed to the peace talks. This is after the rebels broke the ceasefire. In a smawt town called quaca. The two sides have been in peace talks in cuba for the last two and a half years. We join alexander the word from the farc people is what, at the moment . Well, david there were a lot of expectations for what they had to sake, bowt park is rebels and the government mediators. Since the 11th soldiers were killed. Nowee van marcus the head of the farc negotiators say they will continue with their unilateral ceasefire, sloks is then stop their siege on the groups, in the areas where the congress econflict continues. Exactly what happens the last week . What hes saying is if the military continues their ground operations, it will be very difficult to avoid these kinds of incidents. He alsod though, that at the are still committed to a full peace deal and they feel that essentially the problem is with the fact that the government is not accepting a full bilateral ceasefire, which is something that the governmental will not do until a full Peace Agreement is signed. Roughly an hour later a government head of the peace gloashtors also spoke and he gave a very different version of what happened last thirst and park has an issue with the colombian people, they neat to for example what they would say the people of colombia were outraged, especially after the progress that had been made in the l last few months, which translated into violence and betterment of the acknowledges of life of those who live in the conflict riej. The good nuns is acknowledge they will are willing to continue talking though. Thank you. Mexican federal police have dwunned down 16 civilians according to a report published in a mexican magazine. They were caught in cross fire between the police and armed rural michigan in nearby michoacan state. Armed with nothing more than states. Adam rainey tell us about it. State local and now federal are being allegedly involved in these mass acers. This after several months is just the latest of three very large massacres in which involvement by official authorities seems to be if not proven very firm allegation are being made. Back in june of last year soldiers allegedly killed 22 suspect ed members of a drug gang about a two hour drooive from here from mexico city, led to the rate and then later as the world knows now 42 students were attacked by police in the state of guerrero, they were turned over to members of a drug gang allegedly massacred and incinerated, now we have witness testimony dozens of people saying they saw Police Open Fire on a group of people in the state of michoacan. At the time, a federal Office Direct reply appointed by the the president what were seeing in this report is a totally District Attorney city and county that the if are per police opened fire who accord to the, for being these roil Police Forces former vij vigilantes now in the pay of the federal government. Thanks adam. 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