european leaders are to hold an emergency summit in brussels on the crisis in the mediterranean see, more than a thousand people have arrived at italian ports in the past 24 hours many on rickety boats. let s go on live to barnaby phillips. we know the italian coast guard is still pick up hundreds of people. reporter: yes, that s right darren and perhaps you can see them on the boat behind me. the latest information we have been given is some 220 african american, i am not seeing any women or children so far on that coast guard boat, they were picked off some picked up at sea something like 15 miles 15 nautical miles off the libyan coast. not far off the libyan coast. they were brought in to catania within the last half hour and will be disembarking now and we ll get more information about what sort of condition they might be in. what sort of vessel they were traveling off. the circumstances of how they were picked up. but the important information to convey i suppo
european leaders hold an insurgent summit in brussels on the crisis in the mediterranean sea. more than a thousand have arrived in the last 24 hours many on rickety overcrowded boats. let s go there on barnaby phillips. bring us up-to-date on the latest of what has happened today. the eye inning coast guarda apparently still pick up hundreds of people. reporter: you can probably see the last handful of migrants getting ready to business embark. 220 all from africa. almost all men. the aid organization said there were four pregnant well on board. 220 picked up overnight off the libyan coast and brought are brought back to catania. it s a daily occurrence and there is no sign of any ebb if you like, to this tide of migrants prepared to fake enormous risks in crossing the made train vinnie, 90% of the departures coming from libya but also some from countries like egypt and the italian coast guard the italian navy, is working day and night to cope with the consequences of t
phobic violence talk to al jazeera and a volcano in chile sends ash into the sky european leaders are due to hold an emergency summit in brussels on the crisis in the mediterranean sea. more than 1,000 people arrived in italian ports. many on rickety overcrowded boats. live to catania in sicily. al jazeera s correspondent barnaby phillips. behind you an italian vessel bringing the latest batch of immigrants and refugees. yes, that s right, a handful of women and men, four pregnant women. we have a few details. they were picked up off the libyan coast. one group on a crowded dingy the other on a more secure vessel. they have been brought back to catania, and all of them have disembarked in a processing center away to my right. you can t see it. they ll be loaded off on buses and taken to various camps around sicily later during the day. camps which are full to overflowing, so this is the context in which european leaders are meting and the meting and the reason why her