But as we watch, we have no idea that people on board are dying, including a seven year old girl. To understand how this happened, we need to go back to yesterday afternoon, with crowds jostling at the bus station in calais, anxious to get to the beaches outside town, the smugglers muscling in. The forecast is for a clear, calm night in the channel, perfect conditions for a crossing. Young men from syria, from sudan, none put off by news that they might end up being deported from britain to rwanda. Are you worried that you might be sent to rwanda by the british . No, if it is safe and i can study in rwanda, then thats fine too, he says. You hear that . Yeah. You dont want that . No, i dont want. But its not stopping you today . No. Nothing will stop you . No, no, dont stop me. Waiting for the migrants along the french coast line, a high tech force, funded now by britain, which is spending millions of pounds on drones and other gear to help the French Police find and stop the small boat
Modern activists might be more kindly disposed to Captain Cook if he had honoured Aboriginal customs and eaten the children abandoned by their parents at Botany Bay, rather than gifting them cloth and trinkets. To do so would have been a form of communion, of commonality, between the English navigator and the locals
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A British university has given back four spears taken more than 250 years ago from an aboriginal community in Australia by explorer Captain James Cook.