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 unions say they can afford pay rises to keep up with the rate of inflation. and but as you say, seven, eight, 9% pay rises a few years ago, anybody would have been bitten your hand off, i think, if you d been offered that. so it is now this soaring rate of inflation which is fuelling most of these disputes. alanjones alan jones talking alanjones talking to me a little earlier. next to somalia, where security forces say they re searching a hotel in the capital mogadishu for explosives this after ending a 30 hour siege by islamist militants. at least 13 people died at the hayat hotel during the attack but officials warn that number could rise further. al shabaab militants stormed the building on friday, as emily brown reports. gunfire. the crackle of gunshots penetrating the mogadishu air. a crumbling hayat hotel in the somali capital under attack after it was stormed by an islamist militant group on friday night. al shabab attackers detonated at least two bombs outside the hotel b