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
i think it comes down to corsage optimism, the brazilian promised it has been optimistic about getting down to this zero deforestation, other countries want to improve the matter but haven t committed on how confident they are on taking deforestation out as a whole. you have eight countries working together in a massive area, a very difficult terrain, nobody is in doubt of wanting to make things better, but how far they can go is the question everyone is asking. andr guimar es is the executive director of the amazon environmental research institute, he s based in the brazilian capital brasilia and he gave me his reaction to the leaders not managing to agree on a joint deforestation plan. on one hand. i m a bit frustrated because of the lack of of concrete targets and concrete goals in the document
ways at cop26? so much of his presence here and bringing so many cabinet members, president obama coming next week, is a trust-building mission, to signal to the world, yes, we re in this, despite what has happened in the past, it wasn t just trump walking away from paris, it was george w. bush backing away from the kyoto accords when rich nations promised to kick in to help developing countries. the uk, the eu and the u.s. will specifically help south africa get off of cold. they are really a symbol of sort of environmental injustice, dirty infrastructure built under apartheid now, the highest pollution per capita in the world, that will cost billions, split among the rich can countries as well. i saw president biden today with the presidents of gabon and in the congo, talking about this deforestation plan to protect these vital pieces of land around the world as well.
footsteps. and so, i wish you every good fortune and the significant endeavour. recorded and shows them earlier this evening. just to bring you an update. an announcement that a deforestation plan for 85% of the worlds forests, promises to in deforestation by 2030. that news is broken and be more on that we come back with the papers atjust broken and be more on that we come back with the papers at just after half past 11. but now, we are going to bejoining a bbc news special and her colleagues over and bbc news special and her colleagues over and bbci. this special and her colleagues over and bbci. this is a global climate debate special for people will put questions to a panel of political leaders. on climate change needed to save the planet for the next generation and generations to come.