EIght people have drowned whIle tryIng to cross the channel from france to england. TheIr Rubber Boat was overloaded, wIth more than 50 people On Board IncludIng erItreans, sudanese, syrIans and IranIans. It comes as SIr KeIr Starmer heads off to Italy to meet hIs ItalIan counterpart, gIorgIa melonI, tomorrow. The two leaders are expected to dIscuss Illegal mIgratIon, and to see what lessons can be learned from Italys Scheme of sendIng mIgrants to albanIa. So far thIs year 45 people have dIed tryIng to make the journey across the channel. Thats the hIghest number sInce 2021 and nearly four tImes last years fIgure. The boat got Into dIffIcultIes off the french town of ambleteuse and was drIven onto rocks where It came apart. The Rocky Shore made the french Rescue Effort dIffIcult. SImonjones has the latest. The channel has claImed more lIves. ThIs Is what remaIns of the FlImsy DInghy that took to the water In the early hours wIth the aIm of gettIng to the uk. Most of those On Board had
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The latest attacks in ukraine s sumy region. Volodymyr zelensky has accused the west of emboldening vladimir putin with its hesitation over long range missiles. President biden and sir keir starmer had met to decide whether to allow kyiv to use storm shadow missiles against targets inside russia. I don t think much about vladimir putin. Despite this putdown, there is still a cautious approach and no official change in policy. This wasn t a meeting about a particular capability. That wasn t why we got our heads down today. It was to allow ourselves the space which we took, the time which we took, to have a strategic discussion. These long range missiles are at the heart of the talks. The uk already supplies storm shadows to ukraine, but only for use within ukraine. The coming weeks could see that change, with them being allowed to be fired into russia at military installations. Some military observers say ukraine isjustified in wanting to stop the attacks at source. Now, what may happen
Will make any difference at all with how people vote, or whether people are paying any attention to this election? that s what we re going to try and find out. Welcome to americast. Americast. Americast from bbc news. Hello, it sjustin in the worldwide headquarters of americast in london, england. Sarah here, back in the studio in washington, dc. And it s marianna, aka miss information, also in the worldwide headquarters. I don t know when we ll stop saying the worldwide headquarters, but for now. . . Maybe we ve done it for the last time. Anyway. . . Marianna chuckles i was going to say, you can stop when it stops being funny, but that was maybe a wee while ago. Laughing: that was a long time ago. That was a long time ago. I m going to carry on anyway, because who cares? people expect it of me. And marianna, it was in the worldwide headquarters, wasn t it, that you found out the news that taylor swift had endorsed kamala harris. I was in the spin room in philadelphia, as all the pre
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