But as we watch, we have no idea that people on board are dying, including a seven year old girl. To understand how this happened, we need to go back to yesterday afternoon, with crowds jostling at the bus station in calais, anxious to get to the beaches outside town, the smugglers muscling in. The forecast is for a clear, calm night in the channel, perfect conditions for a crossing. Young men from syria, from sudan, none put off by news that they might end up being deported from britain to rwanda. Are you worried that you might be sent to rwanda by the british . No, if it is safe and i can study in rwanda, then thats fine too, he says. You hear that . Yeah. You dont want that . No, i dont want. But its not stopping you today . No. Nothing will stop you . No, no, dont stop me. Waiting for the migrants along the french coast line, a high tech force, funded now by britain, which is spending millions of pounds on drones and other gear to help the French Police find and stop the small boat
The bbc witnessed migrants on several beaches trying to get onto boats to cross the english channel. These are some of the pictures from another attempt just after dawn. The Uk Border Force has brought around 70 migrants, inluding young children, ashore. Of thought there could be around of thought there could be around 300 people. 0ur correspondent Andrew Harding was on the beach where a boat ran aground and left five people dead. Lets take a look at what he witnessed as that ill fated crossing began. Theres a real battle going on on the beach here. Must be more than 100 migrants trying to get to the water. Theyre letting off firecrackers to try and keep the police away from them, but the police are moving in. Theyre trying to stop them from getting to the water. Lets go ahead and see what we can see. You can see the smugglers here. Some of them have sticks. Theyre trying to protect the migrants as they head towards the sea. Lets cross live very briefly to new york, because this is the
Also coming up almost one hundred dead in indonesias second earthquake in a week and the death toll is expected to rise but the islands of long in bali worst affected plus. A ball of fire on an italian highway a tanker truck explodes ripping a hole through an eight lane overpass the least two people were killed dozens injured. All. Golf its good to have you with us u. S. President donald trump has signed an Executive Order re imposing sanctions on iran those sanctions scheduled to take effect in just a few hours from now the move comes three months after the u. S. Pulled out of the twenty Fifteen International nuclear deal with iran and irans president has. Rouhani today saying that the u. S. Challenges from Anti Western Hardliners in tehran i mean how serious are these really imposed sanctions for his leadership. I mean look if you if you look if you think about what president rouhani was aiming at he wanted to normalize trade with iran and basically enter the era without any sanction
The city of Santa Cruz recently announced the release of the public review draft of its downtown plan expansion project, which would change the zoning in the neighborhood south of Laurel Street to pave the way for a new stadium and a series of highrise buildings. Community members are urged to provide their feedback about the document by July 10.