After an report from catania where the few known survivors are expected to land in the coming hours. The search and rescue effort is being supported with aircraft and helicopters. Coastgard and navy ships from malta and italy have been joined by merchant as well ass. Planes are chriscrossing the sea where the my grant boat capsized. Scouring the waves for signs of life. As the hours pass the likelihood of finding more survivors grows more remote. The sicilian point has been the dropoff point for tennessee much thousands. The towns mayor told me he was in perilous last week demanding eu assistance. I baked my fist on the table and said its not a temporary emergency. Its a problem we will have to deal with for many more years. There needs to be a european policy on immigration and help for the desperate people who ask for asylum in our countries. In the vatican, the pope urged europes leaders to recognize the migrants not just as numbers but as human beings. I make a heart felt appeal to
Prehistoric exhibition a monument to cave art. And the sport including heavyhitter hamilton the championship leader wins again at the grand prix italys Prime Minister says he is determined to find the people traffickers responsible for what has been described as the mediterraneans worst migrant disaster. As many as 700 are feared dead after an overloaded fishing boat capsized off the coast, south of the italian island lampedusa. This shows the search and rescue operation. 28 survivors have been found. If the worse Case Scenario death toll is confirmed, it means as many as 1500 migrants died this year alone, trying to reach europe. The Italian Government held a meting and e. U. Foreign ministers will hold talks on monday. Paul brennan reports from sicily. The search and rescue effort is supported with aircraft and helicopters. Coast guard and navy ships from malta and italy have been joined. Planes crisscrossed the sea scouring the waves for signs of life. As the hours parks the likelih
They are part of the yazidi religion one of the groups targeted by the Islamic State of iraq and the levant also known as isil. No one knows exactly how many yazidis were killed because isilheld territory is off limits to journalists and human rights workers. But tens of thousands had to flee their homes after isil fighters captured their towns and villages in june. Isil now controls as much as onethird of iraqs territory, including the secondlargest city mosul. Though its power and influence expanded in syria, its here where isil was born. During the nearly nineyear long u. S. Occupation. Fault lines travelled 600 miles across iraq to look at the consequences of the fight against isil and how u. S. Allies are also helping to divide iraq more than ever. When isil advanced this summer people across the countrys northern provinces fled, some of them to neighboring syria. Were on a floating bridge between syria and iraq and this is the bridge refugees are flooding through every day into t
Families and eligible for free for reduced price lunches. A little more than a million nationwide. Today on inside story well look at that finding with the studies author, talk to teachers about what it means to work with a student body burdened with poverty does it change how you teach and run a school. And later well be joined by jacob ward, taking ugs inside the kids heads. How does prolonged poverty affect the brain of a youngster. We have a new time, and as you can see a new home. Poverty, its the inside story. The burden of poverty on states, students, School Systems doesnt land everywhere pt same way. Take a look at this map from the Southern Education foundations findings. There are 21 states shown in red where the percentage of Public Schoolchildren in poverty is above 50 . The numbers come from the National Centre for education statistics. They came up with the numbers by tracking which students were eligible for free or reduced fried school lunches. Well dig into that later
For reduced price lunches. A little more than a million nationwide. Today on inside story well look at that finding with the studies author, talk to teachers about what it means to work with a student body burdened with poverty does it change how you teach and run a school. And later well be joined by jacob ward, taking ugs inside the kids heads. How does prolonged poverty affect the brain of a youngster. We have a new time, and as you can see a new home. Poverty, its the inside story. The burden of poverty on states, students, School Systems doesnt land everywhere pt same way. Take a look at this map from the Southern Education foundations findings. There are 21 states shown in red where the percentage of Public Schoolchildren in poverty is above 50 . The numbers come from the National Centre for education statistics. They came up with the numbers by tracking which students were eligible for free or reduced fried school lunches. Well dig into that later in the programme. As you can se