Unsafe Passage: on board a refugee rescue ship racing for Europe - video

An overcrowded migrant boat leaves Libya as a Doctors Without Borders ship tries to escort it to safety, facing armed threats from the Libyan Coast Guard.

A gripping, on-the-water view of the desperate race for Europe and the standoff over who gets saved.

An overcrowded ship with asylum seekers leaves Libya bound for Europe – triggering a high-stakes showdown between a Doctors Without Borders vessel wanting to escort it to safety and the Libyan Coast Guard fighting to tur

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