>> they're asking to provide food and shelt eer amid concern. >> of the migration route from north africa to italy has become one of the world's dead leapest journeys. thousand of people are welling to risk their lives hoping for a future free from civil war and political chaos. ben wederman has more on their desperate struggle. >> reporter: they arrive on the shores of europe with only the clothing they wear. and some without shoes. their only real possession, hope. this italian tugboat managed to rescue 117 migrants, most from gambia and nigeria off the libyan coast. percy told me she was fleeing. she and the others paid human traffickers 1,000 libyan dinars,