After lifeboats from the uk joined the search operation. Many of the survivors had been in the sea, screaming for help. Others had been trying to bail out their sinking boat using their shoes. Translation they were in trouble. Some were suffering from seasickness and the boats are quite simply overloaded. They overload the boats and so the boats can no longer move forwards. The last boat was too full. These pictures taken earlier in the week showed just how many people can be crammed into flimsy boats in the worlds busiest shipping lane. The french Authorities Say they will only intervene at sea if a boat gets into difficulty. The mp for dover is calling for a new approach. This is an absolute tragedy today in the channel, and my thoughts and prayers are with all those affected. What we now really need to see is the french stopping these unseaworthy and overcrowded vessels getting into the channel in the first place, and a joint channel security zone. Charities supporting refugees say
Youre watching cnn news central. Im Boris Sanchez with brianna keilar. We want to go straight to anderson cooper, where sirens are going on. Whats going on . Sirens have not occurred here for really today, certainly over the last several days. Theyre quite extensive sirens. You hear them all over tel aviv. It started maybe 30 seconds ago. It remains to be seen. If rockets do come, they generally come from that direction that sounded like an Iron Dome Interception. That was a rather large explosion. That is something we have nod heard very much here in tel aviv. No, i think were fine in this location. Matthew, what do you think, was that an Iron Dome Interception . I Vice President hearty anything like that dinse sorb. And interesting that the sirens stop as soon as that hit. Im assuming that was an interception by iron dome, but theres cloud cover here, we didnt actually see the rocket, but theres quite a large explosion, and it is sirens had now stopped the there was an araid maybe a
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