the bbc has learned that thousands of pakistanis are taking a dangerous route to reach europe illegally. many are travelling from pakistan to libya, sometimes via egypt. almost 300 pakistanis are thought to have drowned taking this route injune when their boat sank off the coast of greece. according to the pakistani police, nearly 13,000 pakistanis headed for libya and egypt this year, most haven t returned. 0ur pakistan correspondent, caroline davies. the sharp end of the crackdown on illegal migration. all of these are men that you ve arrested in association with human smuggling? all of them. the majority here are alleged to have been involved in filling the migrant boat that left libya and sank off the coast of greece, including husnan shah. he denies that he was involved, but willingly admits that he s been a smuggler for more than ten years. translation: we started this - because there was no other business and because of greed and the difficult situation,
with questions being asked about the frequency of extreme weather events in china. the fingers of scientists are pointing squarely at climate change. but in the short term, what s needed is a solid break in the rain to take control of the situation. at times like this. another typhoon was expected to hit the south of the country over the next 2a hours. the south of the country it may now head towards japan instead. steve mcdonnell, bbc news, beijing. the bbc has learned that thousands of pakistani migrants are taking a dangerous route to reach europe illegally. many are travelling from pakistan to libya, sometimes via egypt. almost 300 pakistanis are thought to have drowned taking this route injune when their boat sank off the coast of greece. and according to the police in pakistan, nearly 13,000 pakistanis headed for libya and egypt this year, most haven t returned. caroline davies reports. the sharp end of the crackdown on illegal migration. all of these are men that you ve arrested
in the outskirts of kyiv. another one went to a mine. and there s a third one that is on its way to a missile factory where they were, the russians have said that these things are happening. so in this way, what we are doing, at the invitation of ukraine, what we are doing is clarifying entirely whether this is true or not. so, two of the teams have, i believe, completed their inspection work. so you tell me. there is one that is finishing right now. right, tell me what the initialfindings are. i will be able to do that in the next few hours. it would be incorrect for me to do it now because they haven t returned. i mean, they haven t reported back to me. does it fill you with alarm, mr grossi, that the russians are making these allegations? because we ve seen a pattern of behaviour. of course! this is exactly why we decided to take this unusual, extraordinary steps to send
so, two of the teams have, i believe, completed their inspection work. so you tell me. there is one that is finishing right now. right, tell me what the initialfindings are. i will be able to do that in the next few hours. it would be incorrect for me to do it now because they haven t returned. i mean, they haven t reported back to me. does it fill you with alarm, mr grossi, that the russians are making these allegations? because we ve seen a pattern of behaviour. of course! this is exactly why we decided to take this unusual, extraordinary steps to send inspectors in an unplanned and programmed not programme inspection to a place that, by the way, we have visited just a few months ago. you know, the first one, this r&d thing, we had visited in the month of september.