Nearly every day migrants adrift in the mediterranean are rescued often by nongovernmental organizations now n. G. O. S are being accused of colluding with human traffickers really zero zero i personally think its scandalous the way n. G. O. S are being criminalized at the moment by e. U. Policy makers you can see. The libyan coast guard says n. G. O. S are making it too easy for migrants and refugees to reach europe. Its a taxi service for refugees. There have rescue ships docked here. Our works for the berlin based private initiative see watch two years ago he and his team began patrolling just outside libya. Tauriel waters looking for refugees and migrants at risk of drowning sea watch alone has rescued more than thirty thousand people from unseaworthy boats and brought them to sicily. Critics claim their operations have been encouraging more people to risk the perilous journey across the sea. Sick and today three in total i wonder what were going to see tomorrow. Great expecting an update this evening via want sap theyve moved. On lets do it. New tonight this was a student so we do everything in our town to rescue people who are in danger and if were just a little group so we can bring about a u. Turn in the clinical become the new report we can do is increase awareness of the of and provide images to show whats going on out here. With the event to be more concrete and i didnt know its newest one thousand five am the team sets out on its First Expedition of the day by plane and the rescue Coordination Center in rome has alerted them to reports of an inflatable raft full of people drifting on the high seas and sea watch and other n. G. O. S have been accused of collaborating with people smugglers which is why the air crew will be joined today by a u. N. Official who will be making his own assessment of their activities. Ya but what we work routinely with the rescue Coordination Center in rome and when we come across people in distress well know the italians class where in regular contact with them and sometimes an oscar has to fly over a particular position to check whether they are about travel what i. Want to be or not and today we have an observer from the United NationsRefugee Agency with us he wants to see what it is we did. The south of. The area they are searching is almost the size of two thousand soccer pitches. After two hours in the air they have a sighting. Its the austral a repurposed sailing yacht that belongs to another in geo conducting tireless search and rescue missions in the mediterranean and it just saved the occupants of a rubber dinghy. The astral now has more than one hundred fifty people on board and is making its way to sicily above them. Reuben has the advantage of an aerial view the moon bird is sea watch is only reconnaissance aircraft. The n. G. O. S financed by donations it is currently appealing for contributions to make another ship operational the crew perform all minor repairs and Maintenance Work themselves. Since its founding in twenty fourteen c. Watch has rescued tens of thousands of migrants in the mediterranean Joshua Kruger has personally helped save hundreds of people. Does not successful lazy or typical inflatable boats sometimes theyll have more than one hundred fifty people in them which is incredibly dangerous and made from extremely thin rubber so imagine one hundred people sitting on each boat holding on to the side cause if someone talks too hard or something unexpected happens with the engine in a dinky bursts you can suddenly have a hundred people in the water before. Its going to be here this entire plane located about in a completely different position than a c. And i dont feel like i was no neighbor i rescue ship and people were already in the water some had already drought it was a very dramatic day some politicians microphone not to believe it but sometimes the maritime rescue Coordination Center in rome would ask us to check an area because they know theres a boat there so in that sense the c. C. Can be more proactive than governing authority as they would prefer us not to be that large. A few hundred sea miles further south we join a libyan coast guard patrol tasked with preventing migrants from reaching the european coast captain of the jail out of the bari is no fan of the ngos. At. The presence of the ships further complicates matters to them and that will make things easier for the smugglers. Before this they had to make a journey to lampedusa one hundred. Sixty miles. Down just now they only need to go twelve miles which takes them just to i was. Sad to say a taxi service for refugees. Taxis exhibition for them a taxi a little pleasure. An accusation that is now being echoed by the e. U. All human traffickers now need to do it says is take their passengers a few sea miles out into International Waters where indios wait to scoop them up into their vessels then with yes yes yes yes so weve had a report from our h. Q. That theres a boat with Illegal Migrants that specific ordinance. And that theyve sent out an s. O. S. Thats a good thats when ill going to try to find them and certainly yes i mean. Captain ill go bari wants to be first at the scene but see watch was quicker. Place. Was good for us. But see watch is not allowed to intervene it can only look on as captain up to bari forces the migrants to board his ship as requested by italy. Will. Take days if you are going to. Turn off the engine why do i have. That i tell the boat is carrying around four hundred people. Back but. I have turned off the engine. Whether my how wonderful turn out of the engine. Its the captains job to bring these people back to the libyan mainland the e. U. Funds the libyan coast guard operation which it sees as a deterrent. Russia says it is anyone who reaches d. C. And call their relatives back home and tell them thats the watch is waiting just twelve months out to soon and encourage them to come to this one. But i want to time slowly. Killing fifty one of these people each paying two thousand euros to the criminal gangs operating a boat see that money is now lost as are their dreams of reaching here at. Our. Good luck. This nigerian woman is distraught and banks to be returned to the smugglers boat. Boat with four hundred people on board top speed not that suicidal. That. Youre going to be youll be safe. Be safe you would be safe ive. Got. To. Calm down. If sea watch had been able to intercept the boat the migrants would now be on their way to sicily. Carmella company is the senior immigration official in the port city of sicily. Which says that on that it was a tsunami this completely by surprise we were unprepared and overwhelmed. We had to cope on our own there was no one to help us but on the drought that was set off that. Meant that i see that the so is it means huge changes for us but its something we have to adapt to it but on the learn how to deal with just see that it is to see it as a burden is the wrong approach. Proctoring see what i mean and get the will. The local authorities into tanya are now providing assistance to refugees who wish to stay in italy with language courses apprenticeships and rooms in shared apartments in the city itself not out of town the aim is to integrate them into Italian Society there are ten People Living together in this building most of them spent years trying to reach europe often working under slave like conditions to pay for their continued journey. Spent almost three years toiling for smuggler gangs he doesnt want to be identified and says many people died during his sea crossing. She was she did him it you know were going out to the middle of the sea then the men came and rescued us the men with those t. Shirts the red cross. Crossed the italians took care of me im really grateful. If you went for them i wouldnt be alive. I almost died but now im in good health and i have a job in qatar nia so i love caetano. There are people here who love me too its a little bit so they get me home. Seiko is one of the fortunate ones hes found his dream job working in a car repair shop with a proper contract and he has his own apartment now that hes independent camilla campione has come to say goodbye she and her colleagues are sorry over an oldie are in charge of ninety six people who want to stay in italy. Even take it into the ration is a nice word and very on huggies days i dont but in reality its not easy at all never been so nervous about it with that its vital for the people taking part in the project to do their bit that cassette see bands like i asked you if they think they can stay in bed all day or stay out late at night good if theyre not interested in learning italian or doing an internship with yana hard to find a path forward to get a look at the last that all of them. And saying we are learning italian at a Language School. Is so works two days a week at a Market Garden he loves his job when he was growing up he suffered physical abuse and was forced into child labor. A political its important that we learn to speak italian. It is so because now were living in italy. When we ask what schooling they have had. I went to school in africa for twelve years. Youll feel much my. Life i never learned anything in africa like reading or writing. Stuff i couldnt even write my own name. To see. It yes but now yes now i can read a little course is to deal i can write a little. Bit. In libya the two men would doubtlessly have had a very different reception to do whatever but that oh whats needed in libya is more information about. The footman to make the mike once aware of the situation got it the fact that you get it cheaper a settlement of the facts to get to a place there has to be another way to control the situation there. Other than group force so that you know things like. The sea watch Team Continues its Aerial Patrol reuben on his way through have spent four hours countering the vast search area. Suddenly a rubber raft comes into view with no sign of any rescue ships in the vicinity rueben relays the boats position to the rescue Coordination Center in rome. Devoted to the group in cases where the libyan coast guard has threatened rescue ships these are now staying further north people having to wait longer to be rescued because of the threats and the lack of clear instructions from the m. R. C. See when are hoping to get a Rapid Response from the Coordination Center. Ok not fill my position to say that we can prove were in International Waters. If the libyan coast guard now intervened to bring the boat back to libya it would be violating International Law a tanker appears to generate the name. Reuben knowing the bomber radios the tanker but the captain maintained his course ignoring the plight of the people in the raft. Or took photos of a tanker sailing straight past and the captain must have seen about. The plane continue circling over the dinghy until help arrives. At value of the could be aquarius will now head out here as fast as it can but theyre still really far away lets hope all goes well. Beyond the. Outside the town of video an hours drive in one from to tania is europes largest Refugee Center almost three thousand people from twenty Different Countries are housed in the settlement which originally served a nearby nato base the director giuseppe din the timely knows a lot of the residents to ensure everyones concerns are addressed hes introduced a system of representation with one man and one woman elected as delegates for each national group. The will of. The director and his team offer residents professional counseling they can talk about their experiences to an expert or in group sessions. Really think you know what you get all we must not forget that europe has an obligation to welcome those fleeing from certain death from persecution or hunger in the long. Well that their journey here is a traumatic one of the not easy to process the. Command on top of all theres also a soccer pitch and a volunteer coach a welcome opportunity for young men to have some fun and keep in shape their Team Coverage of many o. As many make it into a local Soccer League the campus so has a Language School for adults the children attend school in the neighboring town of many oh. God. Lets just. Say. That. Was that. You know. This is a serious. Threat that i dont. Know. Said almost woman telling. Integration is more difficult if they dont speak the language of the first thing it impacts this social class plus if they cant speak the local language there is no way for them to inform themselves about regulations or their own rights. So what did the war plants or. Youre a kind man worth me for youre a good girl to sit by the but ill let you know better because you let me go to school thats what i love cobain credo nineteen fence thank you all for blessing us to welcome last year old giuseppe to natalee has been in charge of the camp for just a few months here holds up the battle i dont think i used to be a racist at all but i definitely had a different perspective its a contact with people it changes your perception you stop being influenced by the media what politicians say gold because. Through a more realistic and thats apprehensive enough they can see. The camp is funded by the e. U. Meanwhile captain badri has arrived in tripoli together with the four hundred people agonizingly had earlier seen europe on the horizon. I said that their nightmare journey now continues in libya. Are. Full but what was it. That it. Regardless of whether their economic migrants or Asylum Seekers the libyan authorities view them as illegal immigrants. Anyone caught without a visa ends up in one of the countrys Migrant Detention Centers such as abu salim in tripoli. Today a u. N. Delegation is due to pay a visit im amazed at the suspicious mesh ideas for schools and he told it was gods will you in the city if you still need two of spades oaks to see what we are used for and it really does well theres going to say i dont see its a luxury disease we have been so quick inside you dont have you dont have bleeding on these susie buds in the in the molds on the sun with snow and ice. For those detained here there is little to do except pray sleep and wait. And abu salim is by no means the worst of such Detention Centers its funded and monitored by the u. N. Many here are plagued by uncertainty frustration and boredom some try to escape and give him good day. And instability in libya she was head of the dozens the tell me about we ourselves have a hard time making ends meet. By anyone entertaining the idea of coming to libya should think again before going to do you believe you if you look at a small army its not a given bone no we say youve applied always. Its unclear when the detainees will be released. The black smoke rising from the scene looks like burning plastic reuben and his pilot can relax knowing that the migrants now on board the rescue ship are safe. Right now what we destroy the rocks if we have enough time so that they can be used again they already have a lot of where intact so using them again would be dangerous because theyre more likely to sink like a brick b. P. We are think. The libyan coast guard is working near the aquarius. Cry of someone is trying to radio the aquarius but the funds could get interesting over there. But i dont want us to get any closer. To fish yeah like yes there have been coast guard up front that. Every attempt running out of pure thats why we have to go back to that all. For reuben knowing about todays patrol was a routine mission. Although it might be a logical not often we dont find anything and every day we dont. Find a boat in distress is a good day but were here for those days where there is about in distress. Going to. The u. N. Observer in the back was able to make a firsthand assessment of the situation ruben knowing about our hopes joint missions like this will help refute the allegations he and other n. G. O. S are facing. Even if the ship was far away made it there in time to save the boat that shows how important our work continues to be and how these humanitarian crises cannot be solved by simply bribing local militias to close off the beaches thats a very shortsighted policy is what we do is compensate for that policy we go out in search of those boats and they get rescued so its nice to finish today with a success and right now im just really glad the boats passengers were rescued would get one with. The work is a big challenge for the volunteer rescuers the toughest part of the job is dealing with the human misery they encounter on an almost daily basis. Pointed out for what you can tell what theyve been through they have scars and Bullet Wounds which have often not been treated properly theres a lot of crying its an extremely emotional situation and when things get hectic the crew have to maintain order and try to calm the people down. There are about to be rescued so theres a lot of adrenaline going and things can get out of control. Detective. Thats when he gets left this is an example of something we try to avoid drawing up right beside us but sometimes there are a number of boats and one drifts towards us. Then you have to tell the people that they have to come aboard one by one one by one eyed if people dont remain calm has a danger that their boat will collapse and passengers will fall into the water. To conceal lines of this is soft of course we hide so we have to hoist them up some of them are completely exhausted and fall back down because theyre unaware of just how weak they are with us in fiftys and. Last year the sea watch team had a particularly Dramatic Mission their plane spotted a group of people how did see and in the water by the time men in geo rescue ship arrived seven had drowned. The surface of the homes in still a ship at the top of the picture is the u. Bend it was seized by italian prosecutors and is currently unable to conduct any more asians so it makes us really angry knowing that the ship that rescued people back then is now stuck in italy to go to g