with their counteroffensive. but first, we are going to focus in on a monumental day here in uk politics the release of the parliamentary report into boris johnson. the report by the privileges committee found that the former prime minister deliberately and repeatedly misled mps about parties at 10 downing street when coronavirus lockdown measures were in place. the committee says it would have recommended suspending him as an mp for 90 days if he hadn t already stood down from the role after he saw the report last week. it also recommends the former pm should not get a pass which allows ex mps to access parliament after they leave. mrjohnson has admitted his statements about the parties misled parliament, but denied doing so intentionally or recklessly, saying, this is rubbish. this is a lie. we will have some reaction to the report shortly, but first, here s our political editor chris mason. so many chapters of borisjohnson s life have his relationship with the truth ru
another story now. three days of national mourning have been declared in greece after at least 78 migrants died when the boat they were in capsized. more than 100 were rescued after the fishing vessel sank off the coast, but survivors have suggested as many as 750 people may have been on board, including children. the ship was thought to have been travelling from tobruk in libya to italy when it capsized around 80 kilometres south west of greece. the bodies of some of those drowned have been brought to the port of kalamata, where the survivors are also being treated. dr yael schacher is the director for the americas and europe at refugees international. good to have you with us, thank you forjoining us on the programme. the magnitude of this disaster does seem larger than others we have seen in the mediterranean. how do you understand that these tragedies keep happening?
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become in the uk in particular which mirrors the water eu one, getting bogged down in the idea of how we stop the people smuggling games and sometimes the narrative almost makes it sound like these people are being forced onto boats. and obviously people smuggling gangs do terribly awful things like putting people in the hold area of about, but it does not necessarily help matters so much. the uk debate with the markets coming across the english channel has two an extent, we have had fewer tragedies in this part because obviously it s a much smaller area of cedar cross, but also you have in the uk the rural national lifo institute which has this policy that if any bow is in trouble, they will come to it. it certainly able smugglers will be saying to the migrants this is what you need basically if you get into trouble, do except brett help for the rich because they were taken to the uk sure. and perhaps as a way to prevent tragedies like this, on top of the other things i need to be don
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