Hello, I'm Debbie Russ with the BBC News.Malta has refused an Italian request to take in 234 migrants currently in the Mediterranean onboard a German-run rescue ship, the Lifeline.Italian Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli said Malta's decision was inhumane. James Reynolds reports.The migration routes across the Mediterranean is dangerous and also increasingly complicated.The nearest European countries, Malta and Italy, do not want to take in NGO vessels, including the Lifeline.Italy's new populist government warns that it will impound the Lifeline if it reaches Italian territory.Instead, Italy is urging Malta to take in the NGO vessel,but Malta has often said that it doesn't have the capacity to accommodate large numbers of survivors.The Tunisian authorities say they've arrested a suspected people smuggler who organized a voyage on which more than 100 migrants diedwhen their overcrowded boat sank. Our Mid East affairs Alan Johnston reports.It's reckoned that at least 180 people had been crammed aboard the doomed fishing vessel before it set off for Europe earlier this month.Soon it began to sink off some islands not far from the Tunisian city of Sfax.Officials now say they've detained the smuggler who arranged the trip.He was arrested as he tried to flee the coastal region in the boot of a car.
