detention camps train libyan coast guards to intercept ships carrying refugees and migrants as well as encouraging libyan tribes in armed groups to work as border guards amidst the also found those prevented from leaving libya face arbitrary detention torture forced labor extortion and death at the hands of the authorities traffickers as well as armed groups no european government officials can claim to be unaware of what the libyan authorities that doing the kind of go up to the kind of horrific suffering that people are facing inside libya so i think the approach of the european union is in order to protect their own border they are ready to push people back at any cost and not respect even the basic rights of human beings libya is the main transit point for refugees and migrants trying to reach europe by sea nearly half a million people have made the dangerous crossing across the mediterranean over the past three years according to the un's migration agency in that time close to ten thousand people have died while attempting to make it to europe following the provision of ships t

is giving money to the libyan coast guard its money and its training that they are giving to the libyan coast guard that is using this money into boats for example like the equipment they get from europe to push back people basically to intercept migrant boats in international waters which is the key way elation of international law and this is you and i talked about this before what is the libyan coast guard what are they supposed to do they're supposed to rescue people just restore us to rescue people in distress but what they do is to bring them back to libya which is a violation of the reform in principle because if you are escaping war which we have in libya if you are escaping torture which we have in libya you have to right to do so and we know when you for example if you rescue someone in libyan waters how do you know they are trying to escape libya how do you not how do you not know that they're trying to escape another african country i'm talking actually at the moment about international waters there for example we had to get you know how do you know they're fleeing libya i m

to be done with our present libyan libyans who would be the ones who do that. with the help of support of the government. well way to help them. to create the right them grisman own country for sure libya is not that country for you know to make a libya is a country of iran we have the libyans have already impressed on africa we want to see anybody talk they were going to go first but they're going to put it in and put up this immunity to stay with their loved ones would get from. we also this week got the chance to speak to an assistant of the former libyan leader moammar gadhafi who was the pows and killed in twenty eleven but solid bashir chaired the eight billion dollars libyan african investment portfolio one moment that gadhafi family's private funds this is what he had to say. for the hardest it's not right to say gadhafi better to say the libyan government the libyan government left about two hundred billion dollars in various banks abroad and the un has frozen the money in accordance with the security council resolution and when it comes to the money i

turned a blind eye to dangerous detention facilities and brutality by the libyan coast guard refugees held in libya fleeing civil wars persecution and famine across africa more than one hundred thousand of them have arrived on the shores so far this year. mr internationals director for the middle east and north africa she joins us from tunis and welcome to you so who are you accusing of turning a blind eye to this abuse well or what today addresses european governments because there are a number of governments through their bilateral relations but also within the e.u. as a whole who have ensured that their policy over the last year it seems to prevent the passage of any migrants to reaching european shores and we look of course at the italian government's involvement in funding and training the libyan coast guard but more generally also at the e.u. trust funds funding of libyan detention centers which is of course where there was torture or tension and explanation that. what's wrong with its early you've given them as an example what is wrong with having government training libyan coa

and union border security to the to the libyan territory because that that's also not correct. it's really seem to be in an almost impossible situation pressure from some dogs as the e.u. not to let migrants in and pressure from from others to let the men. have sort of incorporated within the borders of the you know if you could start this whole system from scratch what would be your best way of dealing with the matter. i think it would have been better not to have the end of the nato intervention in libya the way it went and i know the russian federation and china are still. feeling very resentful for what happened there because the original mandate under the u.n. security council resolution. way back in twenty eleven was to protection of civilians and use of force for the protection of civilians and you just had a broadcast just now on not only illegal invasion of iraq back in two thousand and three by george bush i mean. isn't is not right that countries major powers at the stable a situation and then later on complain that. there are mass migration movements from from war a

to be done with our present libyan libyans to be the ones who do this. with the help of the lord to come up. with way to help them. to create the right them grisman own country for sure libya is not that country for us to make a libya is a country or run we as a libyan have already imposed on africa and we want to see anybody talk of never going to the first but the country of origin and to help these immigrants to stay with their loved ones with your families also this week we spoke to an assistant of the former libyan leader moammar gadhafi who is the pows and killed in two thousand and eleven but selig bashir chaired the eight billion dollar the be an african investment portfolio and knowledge they get duffy family's private funds this is what he told us. for the heart as to how it's not right to see gadhafi better to say the libyan government the libyan government left about two hundred billion dollars in various banks abroad and the un has frozen the money in accordance with the security council resolution and when it comes to the money inside the c

coast guard conducting search and rescue even in international waters even beyond libyan territorial waters is why we then say that the italian government is complicit in the loss of life of migrants because. they. have a mariah. internationals the director of the middle east north africa thank you so much for joining data. to support vosburgh lives like face off in the bundesliga tonight hosts volves bug only three points clear of revocation they need a victory to make up some ground on the leaders by a nuke. the wolves have only lost one since martin smith took over in mid september their last outing at home was a convincing three nil victory over gladbach stopping their momentum in its tracks but a league high of nine draws had their main table purgatory currently eleventh in closer to relegation than they'd like to be the head coach addressed the drawing issues in the press conference ahead of the match clumped us with obviously in the nets and in the last five or six games i think we're closer to getting away from that statistic that being the king of draws after a long time doe

we cannot accept anything to be done with our representative libyan libyans would be the ones who do the action with the help of the lord to come up. with that i way to help them. to create the right investments on their country for a free libya if not the country for you know a democratic libya is a country of iran we as a libyan have already invest in africa and we want to see anybody talk of ever going first with the country for agent and the arabs immigrants to stay with their loved ones with their families thank you for choosing r.t. international that's all for me but with all the latest headlines my colleague daniel hawkins will be with you the top of the hour. but. i do not know but. if it's like that. everything today is about the individual so it's so nice to be a little bit different and it's all about the team and i think it's. it's a quality that i study football players have maybe because we come from when i'm a tour environment so we know that the other nations have that individual and more individual qualities than we have so we have to be collectively better than the

governments knowing the extent of collusion of libyan authorities with smugglers and abuses in libya should not be equipping and funding them in the way they are with no conditions a toll on the how they operate in the absence of those conditions in the absence of that kind of influence those governments have become complicit sadly and horrifically in those abuses but often john the reasons beyond this is abuse and exploitation of refugees and migrants and much beyond what the e.u. can influence what do you expect the e.u. to do in such a situation. but. the italian government has a choice either it concludes that it is able to influence the libyan authorities to radically change its detention system for migrants in which people are routinely to watch it either it succeeds in convincing the libyan authorities to recognize fully the mandate of the un refugee agency said they can protect refugees if they are able to secure that kind of arrangement with the libyan authorities then they shouldn't be funding training equipping them to carry out abuses with the sole interest from the europ

the home from hard it's not right to see gadhafi better to see the libyan government the libyan government left about two hundred billion dollars in various banks abroad and the u.n. has frozen the money in accordance with the security council resolution and when it comes to the money inside the country those who came to power after because after he claimed there were one hundred sixty tons of gold billions of dollars in libyan dinars in the central bank when gadhafi moved from tripoli to search he took nothing with him. an accomplice of the older than i was government official now it was how i dealt with sarkozy as an official the french media pie and other media outlets claimed that some people met with me and then there was a decision taken to be fifty million i said i have nothing to do with that. a lot. of nothing is known about that the record after statements and sarkozy's statements now better believe could actually. a lot of i don't know this person and i never met him if he says he would recognize me if he sees me that's a lie if he's taken money from someone he should reveal fro

coast guard in a ceremony attended by the italian interior minister amnesties research says that libyan coast guards are working closely with people traffickers that comes from the testimonies of fifteen refugees at the camp we sometimes see the may become the maids with the smugglers who pay the navy they don't come by car to come by boat we're on the last boat when we departed a speedboat stopped as it was the libyan coast guard and they asked us from which man do you come we told them mohammed. and they said ok go on in libya it's either in prison or easily you cannot go back you cannot turn around last week the european commission issued a report on you programs in libya the document stressed the need to shut down smuggling and human trafficking operations in the country r.t. are several institutions to comment on the allegations against the new government we received the following reply from the committee spokes man deputy spokesman for the un secretary general we have raised our own concerns about the situation and particularly the human rights of migrants in libya as you know dif

again like i know it's a silly comparison but we look at you know one on comparisons that libyan. libyan authorities keep giving to me is the fact that you know the united states is still unable to completely got their border with with with mexico if people are going to continue coming i don't really see a solution when you can stop that you can definitely you know work and trying to make conditions that are imposing you know if we're going to look at policy changes and so on and enforcing sanctions on the specific people in libya who are allowing the situation to be this bad you know when we look at the when we look at the. tensions at this for example it's a we we need to look not just at the. black market a little frayed side of things but also what we're seeing in face value you know the. detention centers are very bad and there are signs of slavery there as well i remember in two thousand and fourteen when i'd like to ask and i'd like to ask you go ahead and look at one drama. if i could just ask a question is it a good idea do you think it's a good idea for an uncontrolled f

detention centers now as you know that the libyan. italian navy ships and navy individuals have been helping and assisting libya's coast guard trying to curb this migration crisis in the mediterranean and the result is a huge traffic of migrants in detention centers in central and north of libya now in detention centers authorities there say that they don't commit violations against migrants inside detention centers but in fact they provide them with health care and food and they they say that migrants. a heavy burden on them because of the financial crisis in libya they have to provide for these migrants on the other hand they say that violations might have been committed by people smugglers or might have been committed against migrants on the way on the transit way via the desert and as you know kimo the migrants they take advantage of their unmonitored unmonitored specious open borders southern borders of libya was other african countries we have been hearing about human trafficking and so many violations against migrants in the de

provide legal pathways to safety this story sparked a huge reaction online with people using hash tag libyans against slavery to express solidarity with their fellow africans and to dispel what they were myth about racism in libya so what can be done to any or be a slave trade and prevent the continued of peace of people hoping to find safe haven in europe here with us to talk about this then a door spokesman for the u.n. affiliated international organization for migration he joins us from geneva switzerland in hamburg germany laurie scuse me in hamburg germany larimore mccauley is founder of the refugee refugee radio network he also lived in libya prior to the four of the long time leader moammar gadhafi in tunis tunisia. is a independent journalist in new york emad body is a social activist normally based in tripoli it's good to have you here gentleman. let it this headline here from al-jazeera slavery is an outrageous reality of libya at the u.n. human rights organizations all saying that this picture here is incredibly disturbing this is what you do every day larry what's the reality who

amnesties research says the libyan coast guards are working closely with people traffickers that comes from the testimonies of fifteen refugees at the camp with some may become. the smugglers who paid them a three by car to come by boat we were on the last boat when we departed a speedboat stopped as it was the libyan coast guard and they asked us from which man do you come we told them mohammed. and they said ok go on in libya it's either a prison or easily you cannot go back you cannot turn around. last week the european commission issued a report an e.u. programs in libya the document stressed the need to shut down smuggling and human trafficking operations in the country r.t. asked several institutions to comment on the allegations against the new government we received this reply from the deputy spokesman for the un secretary general he expressed concern over the situation in libya and stressed the need for the proper resettlement of migrants professor of international relations liles told us e.u. countries have a responsibility to protect migrants in libya because you're getting

will libyan authorities have been trying to refute to refute all these accusations saying that first of all it's the right of the libya's coast guard to risky with these migrants because they have saved off libyan sure's and they are sailing to europe via libya and to to water as long as they are in libyan territory lot of us so the job libya's called coast guard job to do is to prevent these migrants as they say and bring them to detention centers in libya and now also in the detention centers supervisors there that we spoke to say that. also they're trying to refute all these accusations but see that sometimes violent or confrontational when migrants when some migrants get confrontational with security individuals then they have to discipline them as they say now as they also say that with the economic collapse and financial collapse in the country they they take care of these migrants and they provide them with health care and provide them with with catering with everything and now but what happens on the way to the shore of the desert when they're migrants are was people smuggler

coast guard says it's their job to do to arrest duce migrants as long as they have sailed off libyan sure and as long as they have been arrested and libyan tutorial workers before the migrants and refugees reach this coast they take a tough journey in the desert they first get smuggled via the southern borders of libya and the take the tough journey through the libyan desert during that tough journey the face so many. violations they face violence and including extortion exploitation and in some cases rape also the libyan coast guard says that they usually transfer the migrants of after the arrest them and libyan territorial waters the usually transfer them to detention centers and the detention centers the supervisors there deny committing any violence against the migrants and they say on the contrary they provide they provide them with food and health care now the european human rights organizations and united nations human rights organizations including also the international organization for migration help those migrants who voluntarily voluntarily choose to be deported back to t

this particular boat was donated by italy by can april and was handed over to the libyan coast guard in a ceremony attended by the italian interior minister who'd have thought it would one day be the focal point of accusations of human rights violations and then there is the detention center after being rescued at sea migrants are taken to these facilities run by the libyan department for combat saying illegal migration with the full support of e.u. countries in the words of amnesty is heavier than they are exposed to a soul destroying cycle of exploitation and it's a cause for what reason thought uprising to all our producers for business in libya to kill some people this or some people would be something we did a petition. for to it's. do you skin to be tossed out finish you think it's going to be tossed before so as to snoop it was sort of water to drink for limited to us and the. level of abuse is. horrific. there these people who live in fear. there is no war or food that provided that unless you can pay for it would be interviewed several people who. said that the way tortured

countries for actively supporting a system of exploitation and abuse of refugees and migrants by the libyan coast guard now since twenty sixteen even the states of implemented a series of measures aimed at cutting off that essential migration route to europe through libya and one of those measures includes enabling the libyan coast guard to intercept people at sea and they do this by providing their with training with vessels and other assistance and it's onboard these rescue ships which are aimed at essentially saving people's lives that it's claimed refugees and migrants are being subjected to abuse and they have video to back this claim as well one of the videos allegedly shows a refugee being thrown overboard and then being towed a long while other pictures came to show migrants being whipped with a rope and we're going to show you a video you might find upsetting that you are the only amateur and hear her speak up for the i am are here for now is on one of these particular boats that we just saw in the video that amnesty says this was donated by italy back in april so long ago in fact

we are accusing the european governments of providing technical assistance to libyan authorities -- >> but which governments? let us here who your allegations and criticisms are directed at, rather than just saying european governments. which ones? >> i say european governments because there is a european union trust fund which is funding direct assistance to the detention centers. i can speak to the italian government regarding the libyan coast guard, because there is an extra layer of complicity in terms of italy's approach. when it comes to the coast guard, we have documented incidents where the reckless behavior of the libyan coast guard has led to the deaths of migrants. here again, the overall policy of trying to ensure it is the libyan coast guard conducting search and rescue even in international waters or beyond libyan territory, is why we then say that the italian government is complicit in the loss of life of migrants because of the dangers. >> amnesty internationals to rector of the middle east and north africa, think you so much for joining dw. ♪ >> wolfsburg and likes

to be done with the prison libyan libyans would be the one who'll do it. with the help of the lord to come up. with way to help them we're going to do the right investment on that country for you know libya is not the country for you know democratic libya is a country of iran we as a libyan have already invest in africa and we want to see anybody local they were going to be first but their country of origin and to help this immigrant to stay with their loved ones would get from. the thirty two nations competing in the fifo world cup in russia next summer discovered their opponents on friday as the draw was made for the group stage here's how the eight groups look on june fifteenth for russia will face saudi arabia at moscow's newly refurbished allusion to stadium and group b. meanwhile as he's perhaps most anticipated tie of the round put pitting rivals portugal and spain against each other and then that will happen and such as russia will also welcome the smallest country ever to qualify for the world cup that would be iceland and they will be playing arg

we simply have to help governments like the libyan one pledged to rid libyan government to rebuild its sovereignty to so that cone control its borders itself so that we can finally stop this. movement of human traffickers and one and for all so what it's a looser now is an emergency solution and i think in the long run we have simply to rebuild the sovereignity of the states in the north african region and also in the middle east to stop those movements otherwise there won't be a solution to the conflict as you've pointed out well as is the case i mean the alexander saying that is that is one solution i mean every other solution so far does seem to have failed is not a good way then all one attempt to stop mass immigration case what do you think. well it is it's a very complicated issue of course is so there's no easy solution because if the world on it would have been found already first of all can i dispose of this terrorism myth mr minetti himself is on record as saying there is no link between terrorism and migration and i share his view on that and that is the common understood si

government and they're saying that if even members continue to supports them on this with the libyan authorities essentially trapping people in libya that then european governments are really showing with their true priorities where their true priorities lie and that being the closure of the central mediterranean region stopping people from getting into europe rather than prioritizing these people's welfare mccarran their meanwhile the report by the european commission on the blocks programs in libya stress the need to shut down smuggling and human trafficking in the country he went on to say that the u.s. efforts have a strong human rights component and are being conducted in cooperation with the u.n. refugee agency well r.t. has our several institutions to comment on the allegations against the you government's we received this reply from the deputy spokesperson for the u.n. secretary general and he expressed concern over the situation in libya and stressed the need for the proper research element of migrants a view shared by international relations professor last sunday. because y

detention camps train libyan coast guards to intercept ships carrying refugees and migrants as well as encouraging libyan tribes in armed groups to work as border guards and a city also found those prevented from leaving libya face arbitrary detention torture forced labor extortion and death at the hands of the authorities traffickers as well as armed groups you know european government officials can claim to be unaware of what the libyan authorities that doing the kind of torture the kind of horrific suffering that people are facing inside libya so i think the approach of the european union is in order to protect their own borders they're ready to push people back at any cost and not respect even the basic rights of human beings. libya is the main transit point for refugees and migrants trying to reach europe by sea nearly half a million people have made the dangerous crossing across the mediterranean over the past three years according to the un's migration agency in that time close to ten thousand people have died while attempting to make it to europe following the provision of s

we started training the libyan coast guard. we brought them to train in italy, and they have graduated as sailors. we gave them for patrol boats, and by the end of the year, we six more.them since the summer, the number of migrants arriving in italy has dropped 76%. ti's tacticsm mininit are a success, but there is a darkrk side. cremonisi exposed a scscandal. he r revealed a sesecret deal between thee italian m ministryd the traffickekers. this city is known as the smugglgls' capital. lorenzi: in the walls, a lotot f facilities like weapons, guns, with human italian help to wowo. eurososvery month. but actualally, we understood at the beginning -- we understood was 5 walls that it million every month, 5 million euros every month, paid by the italians to the group. annette: the russian olympic committee is going to support russian athletes who choose to compete in next year's winter games in south korea. the international olympic committee last week banning russia from the games due to take place in pyeongchang in february beca

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efforts to fund libyan detention camps train libyan coast guard to intercept ships carrying a few g.'s and migrants as we'll as encouraging libyan tribes and armed groups to operate as border guards amnesty also from those prevented from leaving libya face arbitrary detention torture forcedly war extortion and even death at the hands of the authorities traffickers as well as armored groups you know european government officials can claim to be unaware of what the libyan authorities are doing the kind of torture the kind of horrific suffering that people are facing inside libya so i think the approach of the european union is in order to protect their own borders they're ready to push people back at any cost and not respect even the basic rights of human beings al-jazeera has reached out to the government but it has yet to respond libya is the main transit. point for refugees and migrants trying to reach europe but you see nearly half a million people have made the dangerous crossing across the mediterranean over the past three years according to the ins migration agency in that time c

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to be done with our differences to libyan libyans to be the ones who do this. with the help of support of the government. well that i way to help them. do the right investment on that country foraging libya is not the country of origin a democratic libya is a country or we as a libyan have already invested in africa and we want to see anybody talk of they were going to do this with their country of origin and to help this imagery through to stay with their loved ones would get from. the thirty two nations whole battle it out for the fee for world cup in russia next summer discovered their opponents on friday as the draw was made for the group stages in moscow here's how the aid groups look taking it all off on june the fifteenth will be russia and saudi arabia the capitals newly refurbished luzhniki stadium group a may well see perhaps the most anticipated tie of the round pitting rivals portugal and spain against each other russia will also welcome some debutants to the biggest sporting stage with iceland playing argentina in their first ever parents at the wo