this morning, hidden by thick fog in the busiest shipping lane in the world, an inflatable dinghy crowded with migrants was floating without an engine. ship tracking reveals how a french patrol vessel escorted the stricken craft from just a couple of miles off their coast and handed it over to the uk authorities. it s a vile train, with people traffickers keen to include children among their human cargo because that encourages the authorities to rescue the migrants more quickly. any unaccompanied children become the responsibility of kent county council. but with more than 100 arrivals last month and no sign of a slowdown, the council says it ll be forced to close its doors to child migrants within a matter of days. kent is now caring for 403 unaccompanied child asylum seekers. that s almost double the number the home office says it should accept under its guidelines. only one in five of arrivals have found accommodation in other local authorities, and kent says the currently voluntary
they may no longer be able to accept new unaccompanied children seeking asylum. kent wants other local authorities to help. our home editor mark easton has the details. this morning, hidden by thick fog in the busiest shipping lane in the world, an inflatable dinghy crowded with migrants was floating without an engine. ship tracking reveals how a french patrol vessel escorted the stricken craft from just a couple of miles off their coast and handed it over to the uk authorities. it s a vile trade, with people traffickers keen to include children among their human cargo because that encourages the authorities to rescue the migrants more quickly. any unaccompanied children become the responsibility of kent county council. but with more than 100 arrivals last month and no sign of a slowdown, the council says it ll be forced to close its doors to child migrants within a matter of days. kent is now caring for 403 unaccompanied child asylum seekers. that s almost double the number the home o
life trying to cross the freezing waters on an inflatable dinghy our correspondent suzanne adore hegar has kept in contact with hammer and brings us this update. february twenty fifth twenty nineteen hama from iraq squeezed into a refrigerator truck with other refugees trying to cross the english channel from county to britain without permission. they were all risking their lives. hour after nine hours without knowing what was happening around them the truck was in britain fear melted away only now did hama dare to take videos on his cell phone . some long. ago you can look at this bad feeling it s unbelievable. it s a brutal happens because something when to not expect something and you wanted to happen when it s happened it s sad you cannot. explain it.
clearance above the water line that were trying to make this journey that, listen, a strong swimmer on a good day could maybe make it just swimming, but here you ve got in one case 23 people packed into an inflatable dinghy. among them five children, if you can believe it, and as it looked to me any big wave could have easily swamped the thing and many of these people were wearing backpacks over their life jackets. those could act basically like wearing an anchor around your neck, and what s even more incredible about it is as you pointed out, it s just four or five days ago that an entire family was practically wiped out drowning at sea, a mother and two little kids, and that has not deterred people from trying to take similar risks in their quest to try to get to europe. ivan reporting to us live
swim in kos, retirees spot the latest arrivals coming in. rowing in and struggling against the tide. we view them from above and as they land. this is the extraordinary scene every morning. boat after boat of migrants and refugees coming ashore. these ones having rowed all the way from turkey. as you can see, for many of them, they re just happy to have survived the night. these are from pakistan. they paid almost $1,000 each for an inflatable dinghy whose engine broke, forcing them to row across. none of them can swim. was it dangerous? very dangerous. water is very, very dangerous. within minutes, a clean-up crew arrives and sweeps their life jackets away. local men on motor bikes appear and swiftly pack up the boat, motor and all, and ride off. what is now clearly a morning