the other part of the reality here is 120,000 migrants that they ve agreed to help now. that s a drop in the oaks. so far this year the u.n. says close to a quarter million have come into europe t. pace is picking up about a quarter of a million have come in since july and august alone and the croatia interior minister one country on the migrant path said yesterday they received 8,750 mike grants. so this is a drop in the ocean. it s exacerbateing divisions inside europe without getting to the root of the problem. nic, thank you. that iconic birthday song in a heated legal battle. what it means coming up next. while you re on the move. u s sitcoms, while you sit on those. and even fargo, in fargo!
us an inside look at what is going on in so many places around the world. all right. so let s get back to these two main stories that we re following, though about these migrant ships, one off the coast of italy, the other one now off the coast of greece. there is new information coming in about that. three believed dead already. again, a population of migrants off the coast of rhodes there near greece. they are still looking for dozens and dozens of people. what is going on here? let s bring in ambassador nicholas burns, the former ambassador to nato now a harvard kennedy school professor. it s the perfect morning to have you. let s deal with first of all these two big ongoing rescue efforts. have you ever heard of having so many lives at risk of this kind mike grants trying to escape by water at the same time? no it s unprecedented, chris. we have never seen a situation like this with these huge
they even did it in the church. that s why i left. reporter: today s sermon an important message, being a good neighbor but as africans look to israel for opportunity and sanctuary, israel is saying no. the israeli parliament the knesset views these people coming from africa as infiltrate infiltrators and create a demographic burden for the state pointing to neighborhoods like here in south tel aviv where there s friction between the locals and the newcomers. until recently that meant possible detention for nearly 50,000 africans who arrived in israel illegally. the supreme court has since said that detension was illegal and die prived mike grants of their basic human rights. hostile, dangerous, frightening. reporter: that s how this man describes the government s attitude. taking care of their needs, he believes will prevent any