Welcome to the programme. We start with Breaking News from the past half hour and three men have been arrested after the deaths of five people including a seven Year Old Girl who were attempting to cross the English Channel from france on tuesday. They have been detained on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration and illegal entry. You will remember yesterday we saw those dramatic pictures that were filmed by a bbc film crew in france of that boat leaving the coast full of that boat leaving the coast full of migrants, about 112 migrants on that board. It then got into trouble and people were in the water. Boats were sent out to rescue them. Around 50 people were rescued but sadly, five people lost their lives. Three men, a woman and as you mention, a seven year girl. The boat did continue its journey to the United Kingdom and there were around another 55 people believed to have been unable to made it to uk. Within the last hour or so, the National Crime agency says that three men
Lets return to the issue of small boats crossing the channel from france to england and yesterday was another grim milestone as five people died trying to get across hours after the British Parliament passed legislation designed to deter such journeys. French Officials Say 112 people were on board the overcrowded vessel. A new law in britain aims to send people arriving on small boats to rwanda to have their asylum claims processed. The deaths in the channel are not an isolated incident. Yesterday alone, there were reports of migrants dying in other parts of the world trying to reach another country by boat. We heard from the uns Migration Agency that at least 21 people died off the coast of djibouti. 23 are still missing on the so called Eastern Migration Route between the middle east and africa. On the same day, the Tunisian Coastguard said they retrieved the bodies of 19 migrants who had been trying to reach italy. The un has called crossing the mediterranean the deadliest route for
This is bbc news. The headlines. Three people have been arrested in connection with the deaths of five migrants in the English Channel on tuesday. In a world of rising new threats the uk and germany announce stronger Defence Cooperation to counter the threat from russia. President biden confirms that more Military Assistance will be sent to ukraine within days after the Us Senate Approves a long awaited aid bill. Canada is hosting talks aimed at reaching global deal to end plastics pollution. It is time for a reaching global deal to end plastics pollution. It is time for a round up of all the sports news. Lets go over to the sports centre. Hello from the bbc sport centre. Liverpool could have found their man to replacejurgen klopp. The club are set to open talks with feyenoord over their manager arne slot. Klopp announced injanuary he would leave anfield at the end of the season and slot, who led feyenoord to the eredivisie title last season, has emerged as a candidate who fits liverp
And taters aljazeera live from london also coming up this as violent and worrying and dangerous a moment as that in my time a chilling report card on the situation in syria the uns special envoy briefs the Security Council in new york. Billions of dollars are pledged to help iraq rebuild after i saw its fall below whats needed. Colombia calls for help to deal with hundreds of thousands of venezuelans crossing the border to escape economic hardship. Hello south africas embattled president jacob zuma has broken his silence over the growing calls for him to resign in a forty five minute Television Interview zuma said the instruction from his party the African National congress to step aside was unfair because hes done nothing wrong has been given an ultimatum by the a. N. C. To resign by the end of the day or face a vote of no confidence. Where found it very strange that. You now must go. Because. We now have two new president who must come. Not to follow in any policy of the abyss nothin
Its time g. M. T. Im fully back to boyer watching aljazeera live from doha also coming out seventeen People Killed in a shooting at a school in the us a former student who had been expelled is held by police. Russia can push the regime to commit to seeking a real peace in syria the u. S. And russia again trade blame at the u. N. After the special envoy for syria says the violence is at its worst level for years and iran moves in on black market money traders as its sinking currency and fix more economic pain on the people. Jacob zuma has resigned as south africas president heeding orders from his party the a. N. C. His departure ends almost nine years in power plagued by scandal comedy miller reports from johannesburg. A reluctant announcement from an in vattel to president i have therefore coming to the decision to resign as president of the republic with immediate effect even though i disagree with the decision of much of the leadership of my of conversation i have always been a disc