Ceuta mass migrant crossing death toll rises | US considers striking Iran’s energy infrastructure

The death toll from a mass crossing of migrants from Morocco to the Spanish enclave, exclave of Ceuta, has risen to 57.An estimated 50 ,000 people reached the tiny North African territory, which is a population of around 83 ,000, via land and sea, many swimming around a border fence to do so.Spanish authorities estimate that more than 48 ,000 have now returned, but Italy has suspended its Schengen free travel pact with Spain as a result of the incident.

After the chaos of their crossing into the Spanish exclave, the return to Morocco for these migrants was a much calmer, more organised affair, given it was clear there would be no onward passage to the European mainland, and with food and shelter scarce, most decided to go back on their own accord.

What we are doing is not good or funny.In fact, there are people dying here.I beg you, please, if you haven't come yet, don't come, don't do it.Let's not hurt our mothers and our parents.

Thursday's rush on the border was unlike any seen in years and had a devastating human toll.Some of the dead drowned in the water.Others were crushed while trying to climb the breakwater.Despite Spain sending additional police and military to stem the flow, there were new attempts to cross on Friday, mostly by land this time, hoping, perhaps naively, that this would be the start of a new life in Europe.

I don't know what to say.I don't know what to say.I don't know what to say.

Prime Minister visiting the territory met by protests from furious locals.

but I think it has to be a regulated immigration and this is not regulated.

Pedro Sanchez blaming people smuggling gangs and misinformation about a recent Supreme Court ruling regarding the rights of migrants in Ceuta.

Define what happened yesterday as an attack, a violation of the territorial integrity of Spain.Ceuta is a Spanish city and what happened yesterday deserves all our reproach, all our condemnation, on the most energetic level possible.

Third -country nationals in Ceuta don't enjoy free movement to Spain or the rest of Europe's Schengen area.Yet the Italian government, led by right -wing Prime Minister Giorgio Maloney, announced it has suspended the free travel pact with Spain as a result of the incident.Another populist leader also giving his thoughts on the situation.

law, bad management, but very liberal law.

Spain's left -wing government has generally taken a positive view on migration, but is now considering changes to immigration law to strengthen repatriation measures.Ben Lewis, SBS World News.

U .S.media outlets are tonight reporting that President Donald Trump is considering launching attacks against Iranian energy infrastructure in the next few days.There were no U .S.strikes on Iran overnight, but Iran's Revolutionary Guard said it had struck another two tankers in the Strait of Hormuz

and Kuwait said it had intercepted hostile Iranian missiles.

President Trump arriving at Camp David.The White House says the country retreat in Maryland has offered US presidents an opportunity for solitude and tranquility.Trump convening a televised cabinet meeting, dwelling on Iran.

Iran is doing very poorly.Just in case you read incorrect stories, they're doing very, very poorly.They're having a hard time.

Lashing out at Iranian negotiators.

All they do is make me angry, you know?They just make me angry.I'm losing faith in them.because they do lie.

Iranian TV broadcasting a vessel on fire after the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed to have hit two oil tankers attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.Iran's Persian Gulf Strait Authority posting, we would like to reiterate that due to continued aggressive actions of US forces in the region, passage through the Strait of Hormuz is not feasible.U .S.Central Command countering, the Strait of Hormuz remains open for commercial vessel transit.Iran does not control it.

Basically, the U .S.is at a strategic dead end.And in my view, it either has to escalate or basically acknowledge that Iran is going to claim control and probably exercise control of the Strait of Hormuz.

CBS and The Wall Street Journal reporting that new U .S.strikes could begin this weekend.

We are in a escalatory phase, but it's limited escalation.I think that neither the Iranians nor the Americans really want to go to the mat and just Let everything go.

Operation Epic Fury began on February 28.

We'll be hitting them.We'll be hitting them very hard.And you know, at some point, they're going to say, we're done.take it anymore.

In Queens, New York, a neighborhood pausing.The casket of U .S.Army Staff Sergeant Angel Raposad carried from a church, two weeks after the 28 -year -old U .S.service member was killed by an Iranian missile strike on an air base in Jordan, in a conflict which has yet to find its conclusion.

Pruluwan, SBS, World News.

U .S.President Donald Trump insists Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is, quote, very happy with the deal for Hamas to disarm in Gaza in return for an Israeli withdrawal.However, the Israeli government is yet to commit publicly.And on the ground, there is widespread skepticism.

A path to peace forged, but strewn with many roadblocks.And neither Hamas nor Israel wants to take the first step.

We don't really expect Hamas to disarm, and equally we don't expect Israel to withdraw.President Trump has used the term monumental.It's a great word, but I think it's overly ambitious and overly optimistic.

A deal dependent on two sides with opposing interests and zero trust, each compromising.

Palestinians and Israelis skeptical.

This is new ground.Hamas has never before agreed to disarm or relinquish two decades of governance in Gaza.

It has long touted the ability to use militarized resistance against Israel as the pathway towards liberating Palestine.Hamas, along with the mediators and the United States,have hammered out a pathway in which disarmament can happen.Now Israel has to agree it's willing to accept that.

Both sides have conditions.Hamas says Israel must implement the first stage of an agreement hammered out last year in Egypt, under which Israel was obliged to end all forms of aggression in Gaza.And says Israeli forces must withdraw before it disarms.One Israeli official says Israel would not withdraw from the current yellow line that marks IDF control before Hamas is fully disarmed and the strip demilitarised.The US president wouldn't say who moves first.

Will it go through?It's ups and downs.It's a very complex situation over there.But insists...We do have an understanding with Israel.Israel is very happy about it.

Israel helped us.

There's still no word from the Israeli prime minister.

I think Netanyahu's silence speaks volumes.I think he understands that doing so would likely scupper his chances of re -election.

Hours after the announcement of the deal, the Israeli military issued warnings and continued strikes on Gaza, killing at least two people.

Given the leaders we have and Hamas and Israel's red lines and Donald Trump's distractions, this plan is tethered, frankly, to a galaxy far, far away, rather than to the realities back here on planet Earth.

And with it, the end goal of rebuilding Gaza.Liz Maddock, SBS World News.

Sri Lanka's former police chief and a former senior defence official have been sentenced to death over the 2019 Easter bombings that killed 279 people.A special court found the pair guilty on multiple charges, including failing to prevent the attacks despite prior intelligence warnings.The two former officials had been acquitted by a high court bench in 2022.Russia has launched a second night of attacks on Ukraine's capital, killing at least nine people and leaving scores more injured.The latest strikes highlighting Ukraine's desperate need for more air defences.President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine managed to intercept only one of 35 missiles fired by Russia.

dead bodies and destroyed homes, a common sight for Ukrainians, as conditions in the country worsen day by day.Before there was an attack once every two weeks or maybe once a week.Now it happens practically every day.It's incredibly hard to bear this psychologically.Initial reports suggested Russia had launched 20 ballistic missiles on Ukraine.prompting residents to seek shelter, as Kyiv's mayor took to social media writing, explosions in the city, Kyiv under ballistic attack, stay in cover.

Donald Trump had previously committed to giving Ukraine a license to make Patriot air defense systems that would counter such missiles, something he has now seemingly backtracked from.

We have not agreed to that.We're talking about it.But it's a hard thing to give away that kind of technology.And I don't think this would ever happen.But you know, those people that you give that technology, they can someday turn on you.

The wars in Ukraine and Iran have put global stockpiles of Patriot missiles under pressure.All this as Ukraine continues to strike Russia's two largest online retailers, Ozon and Wildberries, accusing them of supplying the Russian military.

For nearly two weeks now, our company's warehouses have been under terrorist attacks.Wildberries is a people's marketplace used by every resident of our country as well as by people in other countries.So attacks on us are attacks on hundreds of millions of people across ten countries at the same time.

Responding to allegations the company sells goods that could have both civilian and military uses, Wildberry says its products are no different to those sold by many other major e -commerce companies.Mahnoor Zanguri, SBS World News.

As wildfires continue to surge across Europe, the United Nations has warned that a strengthening El Nino is intensifying global weather extremes.The UN chief saying that the climate crisis is in overdrive.At least 10 fires remain active in Spain, where new blazes have broken out in the northwest.Firefighters in southwestern France remain on high alert as increasingly favorable conditions have provided some respite.Out -of -control fires in Greece have prompted evacuations across several communities, including near the capital, while Turkish crews have scrambled to tackle massive fires across large swathes of the country's southwest.

As the flames edge closer, a team of firefighters battles a raging blaze in southwestern Turkey.The night sky glowing a menacing red as the crew wearing body cams desperately tries to extinguish the fire.Turkish authorities say 80 wildfires have broken out in forest areas in the past few days.Efforts to bring the fires under control, on the ground and from above, with water -bombing aircraft dousing flames in several regions.The United Nations chief says this season's Europeanwildfires are only a warm -up act.

I warned that El Nino was arriving on our doorstep.Now it is inside the house.and turning up the heat.El Nino is strengthening, adding fuel to a planet already on fire.

Adding that there is not enough discussion about fossil fuels powering the worsening climate crisis.

It's time to stop treating each disaster as an isolated tragedy.

In this coastal community some 80 kilometers northwest of Athens, the Coast Guard, fire department and private vessels teamed up to evacuate 120 people from the area.Firefighters in France's southwest remain on high alert, extinguishing thousands of lingering hot spots and monitoring smoke still rising from the scorched pine forests.The wildfires that tore through the Gironde region earlier this week have been contained and are stable.Despite lower temperatures, emergency crews aren't out of the woods yet.

So we are on a really long -term work, a tedious work that will really take time.

this summer.Rochelle Harrison -Pless, SBS World News.