he has managed to track down the smuggler across europe to luxembourg. here s his story. excuse me, sir. andrew harding from bbc news. we ve come to luxembourg to confront a man we ve been chasing across europe. we know who you are, you re a smuggler. no. he s responsible for putting hundreds of people in small boats heading from france to england. and responsible for one boat in particular. this one. we came across it back in april on a beach in northern france. police, battling with a group of smugglers. chaos as people clambered onto the boat. we saw a girl here in a pink coat. she was one of five to die at the scene. her name was sara, seven years old, born in belgium, raised in sweden. a few days later, we found her father, ahmed, an iraqi man consumed by grief and also by guilt. but what of the smugglers? multiple sources tell us the man paid to arrange sara s journey is still active and working from a distant city. so we ve come now to antwerp, a city in northern bel
thanks for joining us this hour. really happy to have you here. we have an interesting show tonight, and i m particularly glad you are here for it. we will go a ways back when allied soldiers came ashore on the coast of france on the beaches of normandy for the d- day invasion. they opened up a new western front against the nazis in europe , a shock to the germans. the operation, the d-day invasion relied on the element of surprise. and the germans really were shocked. they had been occupying france for four years at that point. they installed a collaborationist regime that they assembled from pro-fascist and pro-nazi organizations. there was a french resistance to the nazi rule and collaborationist s, but the nazis and their puppets you know, were definitely in charge. they were heading into year five of being in charge. they were really settled in, in france. and then, here comes this shock arrival, this invasion, ultimately millions of allied troops, landing on the beaches
We hear the thoughts of some keen bargain hunters. Just came for black friday, ended up buying a television, headphones, clothes, jewellery, all sorts of things. And ben has the weekend weather. Good morning. A cold, frosty and in places icy start but the reward will be some crisp autumn sunshine. Some wintry showers as well. All the weekend weather details coming up. See you soon, ben. Good morning. First, our main story. Egypts military says it carried out air strikes on those behind the deadliest islamist terror attack in the countrys recent history. 235 people were killed and more than 100 injured after gunmen detonated a bomb and stormed a packed mosque in north sinai yesterday. Egypts air force says it has destroyed vehicles used by the militants, as well as weapons and ammunition at what it described as terrorist locations. Orla guerins report contains some distressing images. A rush to save those wounded when a place of worship became a place of carnage. The attackers struck du
Steve smith shows why hes the worlds number one batsman with a century as australia go past englands total in the opening ashes test. As analysts predict record spending on black friday, we hear the thoughts of some keen bargain hunters. Just came for black friday, ended up buying a television, headphones, clothes, jewellery, all sorts of things. And ben has the weekend weather. Good morning. A cold, frosty and in places icy start but the reward will be some crisp autumn sunshine. Some wintry showers as well. All the weekend weather details coming up. See you soon, ben. Good morning. First, our main story. Egypts military says it carried out air strikes on those behind the deadliest islamist terror attack in the countrys recent history. 235 people were killed and more than 100 injured after gunmen detonated a bomb and stormed a packed mosque in north sinai yesterday. Egypts air force says it has destroyed vehicles used by the militants, as well as weapons and ammunition at what it desc
Welcome to bbc news. Egypts military says it has carried out air strikes on those behind the deadliest islamist terror attack in the countrys recent history. More than 300 people were killed and more than 100 injured, after gunmen detonated a bomb and stormed a mosque in a remote town in north sinai yesterday. Egypts air force says it has destroyed vehicles used by the militants, as well as weapons and ammunition at what it described as terrorist locations. 0rla guerins report contains some distressing images. A rush to save those wounded when a place of worship became a place of carnage. The attackers struck during friday prayers. For egypt, this was a grim new first. The mosque was popular with sufi muslims, who revere saints and shrines, and are viewed as heretics by islamic extremists. Within hours, a televised address to a nation in shock. President Abdel Fattah Al sisi telling egyptians their anguish would not be in vain and there would be decisive punishment. The sophisticated a