got back from a distressing stories we heard in your report what struck you most in your conversations with refugees there what impressed me most i think is the resilience strength of the refugees they went through unspeakable things horrible trauma and i met for example a woman from darfur in sudan she witnessed the execution of her aloft once and she decided to flee she traveled through the sahara desert she saw people falling down the cars because the cars that go of really fast with the sour edges that she saw people dying of thirst she ended up in one of these torture chambers where she was tortured and raped for several months then finally she got out she managed to get on a dinghy a rubber dinghy on the mediterranean on you know she said she thought she thought it s she s already close to save europe but then this boat was the doorstep that by the libyan coast guards which is by the way financed and trained by the european union they brought her back to a detention center in lib
a reconnaissance flight over the mediterranean. mafia and pilots have one main objective saving lives. this she watched aircraft moon bird mainly operates in the search and rescue zone off the coast of western libya an area that spans more than 350 kilometers of coastline this is where migrant boats set off on their perilous journey to italy and malta footage from an earlier mission shows how that looks dozens of people on an overcrowded rubber dinghy passengers often spend days out at sea exposed to the sun and with limited supplies after hours up in the air we spot a suspicious object in the water i am. that s a sunken rabbiting. for now we don t know what happened to the people on board these cheap inflatable boats are not made to last and sometimes sink after days out
takeoff from an undisclosed location. the german n.g.o.s see watch as taking us on a reconnaissance flight over the mediterranean. mafia and pilots have one main objective saving lives. this you watch aircraft moon bird mainly operates in the search and rescue zone off the coast of western libya an area that spans more than 350 kilometers of coastline this is where migrant boats set off on their perilous journey to italy and malta footage from an earlier mission shows how that looks dozens of people on an overcrowded rubber dinghy passengers often spend days out at sea exposed to the sun and with limited supplies after hours up in the air we spot a suspicious object in the water i have. that s a sunken rabbiting. for now we don t know what happened to the people on board
were on a fishing trip and you woke up to the sound of someone beating on the side of your boat. yeah, that s correct. it was about 3:30 in the morning. we heard someone beating on the side of the boat. i got up and as i went to the door and got out and opened the door and there were five guys in a rubber dinghy at the transom and they were calling for help and i looked out just beyond him and here s a boat that was totally engulfed in fire at the time. how far away was the boat that was on fire from you? maybe about 400 yards. it wasn t terribly far. how were they, the people you were rescuing? what were they they were pretty distraught. several of them were crying. one of the crewman had a broken leg. he was in a lot of pain.
how that looks dozens of people on an overcrowded rubber dinghy passengers often spend days out at sea exposed to the sun and with limited supplies and back to back to people of being on the water for days easily dehydrated desperate and in a serious medical condition those really are emergencies that have to be evacuated as soon as possible. because. after hours up in the air we spot a suspicious object in the water by a half. that s a sunken rabbiting. for now we don t know what happened to the people on board these cheap inflatable boats are not made to last and sometimes sink after days out at sea even if kai and his crew managed to spot a boat in distress it doesn t mean the passengers will be brought to safety due to a crackdown on n.g.o.s there are very few rescue boats left on the water and merchant vessels try to avoid the affected. area all together often the libyan