in sicily, how romantic. oh, i envy you. so perception of sicily -- >> it has changed. >> it has changed. enormously. enormously. >> in 2007 there were only 160 group members, and now over 800. pretty cool considering we're talking about a group who have demonstrated no regret or hesitation in killing judges, politicians, police, prosecutors. back to catania, and when you're talking late-night dining options, you're talking one thing, the enticing smell of smoke wafting through the streets, a smell that's enticingly equine. i smell rainbow dash. >> yes, yes. yes. >> anthony and marco, a couple of sicilians and aficionados. >> this is one of the older side, famous, you know, families of mafia that grows in crime organization here. >> oh, right here? >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> nowadays seems to be like a bit more quiet because they are all getting arrested so they prefer to sell meat against drugs. >> so right over there you can bet on a horse. >> we can bet horses, yes. >> bet horses, and here you eat the one tha

how traditional is this to sicily? >> i think from the part of the sea they almost eat a roll. >> yes. >> but fish everyonemen only, fishing communities only or in restaurants. >> if no. >> always as long as you could arrived, you see crudo like this? >> i see it in poor families. >> so, it's not like it's japanese influence. the japanese sort of gave everybody permission to eat traditional foods, their own traditional foods. what are the great mother sicilian classic dishes? >> the anchovy. anchovy and parmegiana. >> that's with the sardine. >> but it's an explosion of flower, because it's arab. born in the period when sicily was very poor. >> this i like. i even remember it. pasta, a true sicilian classic made with fennel, pine nuts, saffron and anchovy. served alongside some sardines that have been curing in chestnuts and salt for days, then lightly fried in oil. >> we have to use our hand, use our hand to eat the fish. >> no problem. i must have slunk back to bed somehow, collapsed in a sodden drunken heap of self-

in sicily, how romantic. oh, i envy you. so perception of sicily -- >> it has changed. >> it has changed. enormously. enormously. >> in 2007 there were only 160 group members, and now over 800. pretty cool considering we're talking about a group who have demonstrated no regret or hesitation in killing judges, politicians, police, prosecutors. back to catania, and when you're talking late-night dining options, you're talking one thing, the enticing smell of smoke wafting through the streets, a smell that's enticingly equine. i smell rainbow dash. [ speaking foreign language ] >> yes, yes. yes. >> anthony and marco, a couple of sicilians and aficionados. >> this is one of the older side, famous, you know, families of mafia that grows in crime organization here. >> oh, right here? >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> nowadays seems to be like a bit more quiet because they are all getting arrested so they prefer to sell meat against drugs. >> so right over there you can bet on a horse. >> we can bet horses, yes. >> bet horses

that's sicily right there. >> right. yes. >> fresh shrimp sauteed in garlic, butter and herbs. >> i've noticed over time as i travel around the world that every great and enlightened culture when they're confronted with a shrimp or a prawn, right away -- >> that is the way you see whether it is fresh or not. >> yes. >> so typical day when you were 15 years old. what did you eat for lunch? >> never missing pasta for lunch. >> pasta and meat or pasta and fish? >> and fish. of course something locally. basically you had to go right behind the corner to find your products. so whatever we can produce in sicily, that's what she would buy. >> watch this. zip the bone right out. out comes all the bone. who needs a knife? >> sardines fileted neatly, sauteed in garlic and oil, a little red pepper. >> that's a beautiful thing right there. >> another two hours here i'll be speaking italian. well, speaking sicilian. have to eat it hot. this is very nice. if you don't like this there's really no hope for you. >> there's something that

that's reports from sicily. let's go to lampedusa, simon, where the boats in fact, sank. >> reporter: that's right, and things here have taken a dramatic turn. let's not forget the survivors, they're still here. they're stuck here in the lampedusa detention/registration center, whatever you call it, and they're very upset. they're upset they weren't invited to the event in sicily this morning and today they have taken matters into their own hands. they've broken into groups of 50 each mostly men and protested in two locations outside of the town hall and the gates of the detention center, and blocking the road, demanding that the italian authorities pull their finger out and start processing them, and of course, they wanted desperately to be at this event in sicily where so many of their friends and families will be commemorated. subsequent to that they didn't go back quietly to their detention center. they have just conducted, we don't have pictures of this yet, unfortunately, their own ceremony. all the traine

place hundreds of migrants who died trying to reach italy earlier on this month have been buried in sicily. the government said it would hold a state funeral for the victims, instead they are getting a memorial service and we report. >> reporter: as they often do on sundays they visit their family mosuliem at the cemetery and the flowers are dead for ones they never met but are buried close to relatives and they offered a burial plot to a woman and four-year-old children, two of the hundreds of migrants who died in the shipwreck october third off the coast of sicily. >> translator: they would have been forgotten if they were buried elsewhere and nobody would have left a flower or remembered them and this way when i say a prayer for my grandfather i will say one for them too. >> reporter: the mother and child were promised a state funeral by italy's prime minister and are part of a few who were given a dignified burial. most of the almost 400 migrants who lost their lives in the shipwreck are buried around the city here and despite promises of a state funeral they were given a private and s

they want to buy food from if your puter saddam than traveled to libya and finally reached sicily after what must have been the most nerve wrecking ball right off their lives these three women are hiding their faces from the camera since now they're risking being sent back when we were at sea now the boat with refugees sank into the three hundred people died but we were lucky and in sicily we managed to avoid getting registered it's illegal between need to go further north there is nothing for us here under e.u. regulation all newcomers must seek asylum in the country where they are right and under italian law anyone of voting registration is sent home but nowadays more and more newcomers are ready to take their chances don't register to try to go to northern states where there are more opportunities with you probably when you arrive here they give you the very minimum there is no jobs no school and you sleep in the street for six months italy is one of the worst european states in this regard youth unemployment has exceeded forty percent while the economy is in the worst recession sinc

they want to buy the food from the opium to saddam then traveled to libya and finally reach sicily after what must have been the most nerve wrecking ball right off their lives these three women are hiding their faces from the camera since now they're risking being sent back when we were at sea now the boat with the refugees sank into a three hundred people died but we were lucky and in sicily we managed to avoid getting registered it's illegal between need to go further north there is nothing for us here under regulation all newcomers must seek asylum in the country where they arrive and under italian law anyone of voiding registration is sent home but nowadays more and more newcomers are ready to take their chances don't register to try to go to northern states where there are more opportunities. when you arrive here they give you the very minimum there is no jobs no school and you sleep in the street for six months italy is one of the worst european states in this regard youth unemployment has exceeded forty percent while the economy is in the worst recession since the second world war

also heading to the italian island of lampedusa and sicily algerian and moroccan nationals sail either to france or spain as you can see over there now the official stats suggest that migrants from outside the e.u. now amount to more than twenty million in italy every twentieth man is a registered immigrant not just in italy but also to greece the numbers even higher there are more than seven percent of the population and the number of asylum applications in italy has increased by more than a hundred percent can just compared to last year and greece is only second to germany when it comes to the highest number of pending applications let's get some more details on this some more insight now from the skin off. they want to buy the food from the opium to saddam then traveled to libya and finally reach sicily after what must have been the most nerve wrecking ball right off their lives these three women are hiding their faces from the camera since now they're risking being sent back when we were at sea now the boat with refugees sank into a three hundred people died but we were lucky and i

they want to buy the food from and the opium to saddam then traveled to libya and finally reached sicily after what must have been the most nerve wrecking ball right off their lives these three women are hiding their faces from the cameras and now they're risking being sent back when we were at sea now the boat with refugees sank into a three hundred people died but we were lucky and in sicily we managed to void a good who had just heard it's illegal between need to go further north there is nothing for us here under regulation all newcomers must seek asylum in the country where they are right and under italian law anyone of voiding registration is sent home but nowadays more and more newcomers are ready to take their chances don't register to try to go to northern states where there are more opportunities with you probably when you arrive here they give you the very minimum there is no jobs no school and you sleep in the street for six months italy is one of the worst european states in this regard youth unemployment has exceeded forty percent while the economy is in the worst recession

just last week 13 people drowned trying to reach sicily. live in the newsroom, abc 7 news. >>> 6:35 now. now the latest on the b.a.r.t. negotiations. b.a.r.t. managers are reviewing the union's latest proposal with just a week to go until the cooling-off period comes to an end. union negotiators say they two accept a 3.75 wage increase in each of the first two years and a 4% wage increase in the fourth year. both sides will be back in the bargaining table in oakland this morning and a strike could come as soon as next friday if they can't reach a deal in time. >>> there are negotiating sessions between b.a.r.t. and its union schedule every day except sunday through the end of the cooling-off period. the 60-day cooling off period ends next thursday and that's the last day talks are scheduled. >>> now a story you'll only see here, and it's a heartbreaking one. newark police are investigating a case of animal cruelty after a pregnant german shepherd was left tied to a park bench while giving birth to puppies. a police officer took the dog and

meanwhile, more than 100 coffins have arrived in sicily from the shipwreck which saw more than 300 eritrean drowned off the coast of lampedusa. a very bright light for a very somber task. someing silence, then mourners are overcome with emotion as the coffin, that of a child, the only white one, is coming out of the ship. the town was among hundreds of mourners, including everett trahan to live in italy who came to pay their respect -- to live in italy came out to be the respect. >> we urgently need to find a way to be able to regulate this flow, to put an end to this type of tragedy. it is inconceivable. it is not in any way understandable, and it is certainly not acceptable. migrants often say they are ready to face the perilous journey in hope of a better life. this woman managed to reach italy four years ago from eritrea. >> i came by ship as well. but on my journey, i saw terrible things along the way. i was arrested in libya for one year. i saw lots of bad things. but god has led me through all of this, so i am here now. >> and many migrants here hold her view. that hope of a better f

the italian coast guard picked up 93 people off sicily and the u.s. navy pulled more than 100 off of a brass in rough conditions up the coast of malta -- off of a raft in rough conditions off the coast of malta. our reporter has been on board one of the boats patrolling. >> here on the bridge, a good sense of the area we are talking about. there you've got sicily, and here, the coast of tunisia, and there, libya. and that is tiny lampedusa island. and this coast guard letter is looking to intercept in this area boats loaded with migrants coming up mostly from lidia. >> in general, when we intercepted the ship, in general little fish -- fishing vessel of wood, the situation is dangerous. we take immediate action in boats nearep these to our ship. and we all migrants, take them on board our ship. >> when this coast guard vessel does find a boat packed with migrants in need of rescue, they will launch one of the day knees ys here.ase -- ding could be hundreds moving around in a chaotic way on a already sinking boat. the moment of rescue if sometimes the

a migrant boat capsized between sicily and tunisia. hundreds of people, the italian navy on its way to rescue. corpses have been spotted, say reporters. this taking place just one week after at least 300 people drowned when a boat carrying migrants sank off the sicilian island. 2000 islamists rallying in egypt, organizers deciding to forgo plans to march on tie here square. france's constitutional council upholds a law banning fracking, the process that extracts show oil and gas. the court rejected a would-be investor. we will have the stories and much more at the top of the hour. welcome back. this is "a world this week." with us, craig, elizabeth, german reporter uryka, and despite the partial shutdown at the u.s. federal government, day 11, and the race to get republicans and democrats to strike a deal before next week's that ceiling deadline, business continues in washington with the nomination of ben bernanke's successor as chair of the worlds most powerful central bank. >> i am absolutely confident that she will be an exceptional

streams of red hot lava and plumes of ash spewing from sicily's mount etna. it erupted overnight creating this fiery scene. the latest series of eruptions happened after more than a dozen smollett quakes in the -- small earthquakes in the areament this is the 14th time it erupted this year. >>> all right, here's one way to get from point a. to point b.. a man drove his bmw down the steps outside a philadelphia museum. he took the car up top but the brakes filled causing it to roll down. he says he jumped in to safely get it down to the bottom. the driver turned himself into police after this video was posted online. they confiscated the car to inspect the brakes. >>> a bay area police chief credited with helping stop vie leapt crime gets -- violent crime gets ready to step down but he's not leaving the business, how he'll take his local expertise to the national level. ,, here's bubba watson. the master of the escape. dadada dadada blue 375 razor! wait for it... ooooh! dadada dadada moves in, shoots, and scores! curry off the bounce, wow! dadada dadada dadada

they want to buy the food from the opium to saddam then traveled to libya and finally reach sicily after what must have been the most nerve wrecking ball right of their lives these three women are hiding their faces from the camera since now they're risking being sent back when we were at sea now the boat with the refugees sank into a three hundred people died but we were lucky and in sicily we managed to avoid getting high just heard it's illegal between need to go further north there is nothing for us here under regulation all newcomers must seek asylum in the country where they are right and under italian law anyone of voiding registration is sent home but nowadays more and more newcomers are ready to take their chances don't register to try to go to northern states where there are more opportunities with you probably when you arrive here they give you the very minimum there is no jobs no school and you sleep in the street for six months italy is one of the worst european states in this regard youth unemployment has exceeded forty percent while the economy is in the worst recession si

- two of hundreds of migrants that died in the shipwreck on october 3rd, off the coast of cystly -- sicily. trans-tran they would have been >> translation: they would have been forgotten if buried elsewhere. this way, when i say a prayer for my grandfather, i will say one for them too. >> the mother and child are among those promised a state funeral by italy's prime minister. they are now part of a few who are given a dignified burial. most of the almost 400 migrants who lost their lives in the shipwreck are buried in cemeteries around the sicily cities. despite promises of a state funeral they were given a sombre ceremony. all that is left to mark them are numbers on a wall. >> on monday italy's government will hold a ceremony to commemorate the victims of the tragedy. it is an event with government dignitaries but no coffins. >> translation: this shows the difference between the local population who rolled up their sleeves to help and a government that makes grand statements with little concrete contribution when faced with tragedy. >> in the meantime tens of migrants arrive on the coast

faced with tragedy. >> reporter: in the meantime tens of migraines arrive everyday on the coast of sicily and the prospect of being another forgotten number in the island cemeterys, al jazeera. >> reporter: pakistan's prime minister is in washington and the latest attempt to improve the two country's tense relations since the death of osama bin laden and they asked congress to resume more than $300 million in blocked security assistance to pakistan. before the trip he urged world powers to resolve pakistan's dispute with india over cashmire and it has annoyed india. thousands of children in east africa suffer from a disease called nodding syndrome. little is known about what actually causes it and there is no cure. and uganda one group of children is showing signs of improvement and al jazeera malcom webb reports from the district. >> and he can no longer talk and he can barely eat. he is 12 years old but the growth of his body and brain are completely stunted. he has nodding syndrome. it's only found in certain areas of east africa. here in northern uganda thousands of children have it a