These are some of the latest pictures from our team there. Joining us now on the line, the bbc s tom symonds who has been in calais in Northern France this morning. Lets start with what has happened in the last few hours and those deaths. What more do we know . Were ustt in deaths. What more do we know . Were just trying to deaths. What more do we know . Were just trying to work deaths. What more do we know . Were just trying to work this deaths. What more do we know . Were just trying to work this out. Deaths. What more do we know . , just trying to work this out. They were perfect conditions for the channel. Flat seas and very clear visibility. A large number of boats have tried to get away. There were three potentials crossing is that it started. We think that it was at wimereux which is between boulogne and calais, where the migrants both live and try to escape to get to the uk, we have some details of those. The people who have died in the incident. There will be questions about w
surveillance, and you can t put a fence around france. david, a migrant himself, has sometimes worked for the people smugglers here. he had hoped to earn a place on one of their boats, but says it never happened. they re greedy, he says, and there are plenty of passengers who will pay. he s brought me here to show me one of their hiding places. this is where they bring people before they put them in the boat an old makeshift shelter. above is a field of cows. and david isjust going to show me inside where they store the equipment. it s pretty dark in here. scattered inside is the debris left by previous groups. and, hidden in the floor, undera rock, a dinghy, wrapped in plastic, and ready to inflate. smugglers now often
forested dunes complicate video surveillance, and you can t put a fence around france. david, a migrant himself, has sometimes worked for the people smugglers here. he had hoped to earn a place on one of their boats, but says it never happened. they re greedy, he says, and there are plenty of passengers who will pay. he s brought me here to show me one of their hiding places. this is where they bring people before they put them in the boat an old makeshift shelter. above is a field of cows. and david isjust going to show me inside where they store the equipment. it s pretty dark in here. scattered inside is the debris left by previous groups. and, hidden in the floor, undera rock, a dinghy, wrapped in plastic, and ready to inflate. smugglers now often stash the boats separate from their passengers, to stop them being taken if there s a raid by the police.
undera rock, a dinghy, wrapped in plastic, and ready to inflate. smugglers now often stash the boats separate from their passengers, to stop them being taken if there s a raid by the police. david shows me the route down to the beach. the smugglers would get wind of a police patrol up to two hours before it reached them, he says.
moral and political leadership the u.s. has traditionally shown. what would you like to see happen now. just overnight we had more fatalities, right? terrible story of a dinghy being hit by a ferry. 13 people died overnight. a report of 24 more dying in a dinghy. they were trying to get to they were going from turkey just six miles across the aegean sea. i was there last sunday, monday, tuesday. it s a tourist island. now 2,000 to 3,000 tourists per day on these pathetic dinghies built for 15 people and have 30, 35, 40 people crowded on them. they re paying 1200 euros each to get there. 600 euros for a kid. terrible stories. we re a humanitarian organization. she said my wheelchair was thrown overboard by the smugglers. we had to get her a new