want to be identified. if you have passports, and you send them to the belarus tourism companies, and they send us invitations. so when people come to you, you know they are not going to belarus for a holiday? of course. you know they are going to europe. yeah. by now, idris and his friends have reached the belarusian capital, minsk. the airport is jammed with people making the same journey. the group has been told to go to a hotel and wait for instructions. are you worried about the journey? translation: of course we are. we are crossing the border illegally, we don t know what will happen. we don t trust anyone, not even our smuggler. in may the president of belarus, alexander lukashenko, threatened to flood the eu with drugs and migrants. revenge, it seems, for eu sanctions. soon, thousands were crossing into lithuania. we went there to see
we ve been walking since four in the morning. but how do they get here? two weeks earlier, their journey starts with a tearful farewell in northern iraq. an optimistic selfie at the airport in irbil. we re leaving for belarus, says idris. we went to irbil ourselves. the city is full of travel agents catering for would be migrants. the first step a visa. murat isn t doing anything illegal, but he still doesn t want to be identified. if you have passports, i will send it to the belarus tourism companies, and they send us invitations. so when people come to you, you know they re not going to belarus for a holiday. of course. you know they re going to europe. yeah. by now, idris and his friends have reached the bela rusian capital, minsk.
officials have also taken away alec baldwin s costume, the bloodstained costume, the gun itself, other ammunition and also memory cards from cameras, video recorders that were rolling at the time of this tragedy. what this court filing, this search warrant does not provide, of course, is any indication of how it was that a live round ended up in a gun being fired by alec baldwin. eu leaders have threatened further action against belarus as a row over migration intensifies. poland, lithuania and latvia have all declared a state of emergency in response to what they say is president lukashenko s policy of issuing tourist visas to thousands of people who want to claim asylum in the eu, effectively allowing them to pass through belarus into the eu countries on its borders. on the second day of a summit in brussels, european commission president ursula von der leyen accused minsk of state sponsored people smuggling.
this is bbc news. the headlines: more details have emerged on how the actor alec baldwin accidentally shot dead a crew member on the set of his latest film. court documents suggest mr baldwin was told the gun was safe just before halyna hutchins was killed. the director, joel souza, was injured when a gun being used as a prop went off. the eu has accused belarus of recruiting migrants in the middle east and pushing them into europe, and said the government there is planning to issue visa waivers to even more countries. eu leaders said the matter will lead to them taking further action against minsk. scientists advising the british government say stricter covid measures should be made ready for rapid deployment . however prime minister boris johnson has insisted plan b for england isn t needed yet. the latest estimates suggest 1.1 million people in the uk had the virus last week.
this is bbc news, the headlines. the actor alec baldwin has expressed his shock and sadness after he accidentally shot two people on the set of his new film. the cinematographer, halyna hutchins, was killed the eu has accused belarus of recruiting migrants in the middle east and pushing them into europe, and said the government there is planning to issue visa waivers to even more countries. eu leaders said the matter will lead to them taking further action against minsk. scientists advising the british government say stricter covid measures should be made ready for rapid deployment . however, prime minister boris johnson has insisted plan b for england isn t needed yet. the latest estimates suggest 1.1 million people in the uk had the virus last week.