Italy has attacked malta for refusing to absorb a deliver of migrants.
Delivery minister danilo toninelli shared a picture of an e mail by the maltese armed forces announcing the vessel "has no longer manifested any misery".
Mr toninelli called the decision (in italian) "inhumane" and "absurd".
The lifeline, carrying 226 migrants rescued from the sea near the libyan coast, is one among ships operated by means of german ngo undertaking lifeline that the italians have vowed to impound.
They're accused of "illegally" flying the dutch flag.
Why does italy need to seize the ships?
Italy's new right-wing government has taken a tougher stance on rescue ships bringing big numbers of migrants to italy, that's frequently the closest port for the ones rescued off coast of libya.
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Mr toninelli stated earlier the deliver had damaged the law by using taking the migrants, despite the fact that the libyan coastguard had already intervened to rescue them.
He stated italy would capture both the lifeline and the seefuchs to determine their felony popularity, and delivered that italy might "once more save the migrants".
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Italy's new some distance-right indoors minister matteo salvini first of all said in a post on facebook that the 2 ngo ships ought to "visit holland", because it became said to be flying below a dutch flag, and have to no longer dock in italy.
Whether or no longer the ship is dutch is the situation of some debate. The dutch delegation to the european said in a tweet that the ships were no longer registered inside the netherlands, and no longer flying beneath its flag.
Project lifeline, but, later published an image on twitter of a registration report it says proves the ships sail below the dutch flag.
The organization additionally tweeted that it had completed some other rescue overnight, even though it isn't clear what number of additional migrants, if any, boarded their ship.
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The ngo's co-founder, axel steier, denied breaking any legal guidelines and defended his corporation's actions.
"in this situation you can't wait," he said. "when you have a rescue you save you people from dying, from drowning after which you need to make the selections. You can't wait until a person has a port for you - you have to act right away."
Europe's rescue row
The deliberate seizure of the lifeline and seefuchs comes amid a deepening row over migrant rescues after italy's new populist government refused earlier this month to take in a stranded rescue deliver sporting 630 migrants.
The aquarius subsequently sailed to spain after it was additionally became away with the aid of malta. It has now resumed its operations at sea.
Media captionafter every week of being inside the political highlight, the rescue deliver aquarius is again at sea
French president emmanuel macron has accused the italian authorities of "cynicism and irresponsibility" for refusing to permit the aquarius dock.
Then on thursday, without referring directly to italy, mr macron attacked the "leprosy" of anti-european feeling amongst "friends and neighbours".
Mr salvini hit returned at the french president.
"we may be leper populists, however i take the classes from people who open their very own ports. Welcome thousands of migrants after which we can speak," the indoors minister said.
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The migrant crisis has brought on deepening rifts between eu member states
Leaders from 10 european member states will meet in brussels on sunday to discuss how pleasant to stem the flow of migrants to the bloc.
The italian government has stated it's going to now not join up to any european plan except it makes supporting italy a priority, whilst poland, the czech republic, slovakia and hungary - referred to as the visegrad institution - say they will boycott the talks.
Italy's authorities desires to deport half a million undocumented migrants, a lot of whom are housed in squalid reception centres. More than six hundred,000 have reached italy from libya in the beyond four years.
