41 migrants have drowned off the italian island of lampedusa after their boat capsized. 45 people, including three children, had been aboard the vessel, which set off from the tunisian city of sfax last thursday. Four survivors originally from the ivory coast and guinea gave their accounts to coastguards after being brought ashore. The three men and a woman had initially been rescued by a cargo ship. These pictures show Rescue Workers helping migrants in trouble around the lampedusa coast at the weekend, one of several rescues in recent days. Live now to sofia bettiza whos in rome. What bettiza whos in rome. More do we know about thi rescue . What more do we know about this rescue . ,. ,. ,. , rescue . This is another tragedy in the mediterranean rescue . This is another tragedy in the mediterranean sea. Rescue . This is another tragedy in the mediterranean sea. Only rescue . This is another tragedy in the mediterranean sea. Only four| the mediterranean sea. Only four people survived,
Hi there. Thank you for being with us. We begin with some Breaking News from the brazilian city of belem, where leaders of eight South American countries which share the amazon have been meeting fora landmark summit. At the end of the talks they issued a joint declaration saying they have now established a new alliance aimed at preventing the amazon from reaching a point of no return. But leaders appear to have stopped short of pledging an end to deforestation by 2030, as brazils president lula, who is hosting the event, had hoped. Our South America Correspondent Katy Watson reports from para, which is the state with the highest Deforestation Rate in the country. Virgin forest still exists here in the amazon, but every day the illegal loggers get closer. From up high, you can see the damage done, the large patches of land totally cleared. This part of brazil has the highest rate of deforestation in the country. Underjair bolsonaro, Illegal Logging soared. President Lula Da Silva has pr
All of those stories are coming up soon. Sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, heres jane dougall. Good afternoon, jane. Hello, matthew. Theres one English Premier League match later on monday with chelsea hosting newcastle in a mid table battle. The two sides are struggling to reach the european places and the pressure is on both managers. Mauricio pochettino s chelsea have won just three of their last nine games. Newcastle are four points better off in the table, and were the winners in the reverse fixture in november. However, manager eddie howe says theyre running out of time to get something from this season, while pochettino insists chelsea must concentrate on themselves and not their opponents. Iam i am concerned in our performance and in the way that we are going to deal with now, maybe two or three starting 11 players in the last game that we need to find a different solution again. Of course we know very well newcastle and we can assess newcastle but now i
Hi there, thank you for being with us. We begin with some Breaking News from the brazilian city of belem, where leaders of eight South American countries which share the amazon have been meeting for a landmark summit. The leaders have issued a joint declaration, saying they have established a new alliance, aimed at preventing the amazon from reaching a point of no return. But leaders appear to have stopped short of pledging an end to deforestation by 2030, as brazils president lula, who is hosting the event, had hoped. Our South America Correspondent Katy Watson reports from para, which is the state with the highest Deforestation Rate in the country. Virgin forest still exists here in the amazon, but every day the illegal loggers get closer. From up high, you can see the damage done, the large patches of land totally cleared. This part of brazil has the highest rate of deforestation in the country. Underjair bolsonaro, Illegal Logging soared. President Lula Da Silva has promised to fix
We start with efforts to get desperately needed aid into gaza, lets ta ke lets take you to live pictures in larnaca with a Spanish Charity ship is leaving the port carrying some 200 tonnes of food to gaza along what is going to become a new Maritime Aid Corridor that was announced by the eu. This vessel is being operated by world central kitchen, and it has been in larnaca for the last three weeks. It is towing a barge loaded with items which have been provided by world central kitchen. It is being organised by open arms, you can see the vessel has 0pen organised by open arms, you can see the vessel has open arms written on it. The open arms people say that on that barge being told our 200 tonnes of basic foodstuffs, including things like rice and flour and cans of tuna. The ship will take around two or three days to reach as i but we do not know where it will dock in gaza because there are no ports, so anything which has been set up will have to be temporary. It is an under closed loc