Saving terrified migrants’ lives at sea
Now at night, in hopelessly overloaded craft, they are pointed at destiny or death in the pitch-black moonless nights and heavy cloud of this week.
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Was this freezing weather really so unexpected? Alex Thomson talks to Professor Adam Scaife of the Met Office.
Severe gales have proved fatal as stormy weather battered Britain and continental Europe. Three people died in the Netherlands as gusts of over 80 miles per hour toppled trees, blew over lorries and ripped off rooves. Here in Britain, fallen trees blocked railway lines and roads and thousands of homes and businesses were left without…
How far should former prime minsters benefit financially from their time in office? David Cameron’s famous photo opportunity with Chinese Presdent Xi Jinping in a Buckinghamshire pub kick started a bromance between London and Bejing. Now Chinese businessmen have said “thank you” to the Old Etonian by each paying a cool twelve thousand pounds to…
At the forefront of the campaign to free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been her local MP Tulip Siddiq. Now she is being asked to use her influence to free a person campaigners say has been locked up illegally – a British-trained barrister in Bangladesh who was abducted by men thought to be working for the government.
Ministers are looking at ways of using the UK’s £13 billion aid budget to help the British overseas territories in the Caribbean affected by Hurricane Irma. Chief correspondent Alex Thomson visits the Britsh overseas territory of Anguilla and the nearby French St Martin to see the response to Irma’s havoc.
Once a heaven, now a sodden hell with flooded homes, debris and devastation. Alex Thomson reports from the Caribbean.
French President Emmanuel Macron has called their journalists “agents of influence and propaganda”. No wonder RT, formerly known as Russia Today, says its mission is to improve Russia’s image abroad. And in a rare interview, Margarita Simonyan , the editor of RT has told this programme that they are considering legal action aginst their French…
Why IS the weather so bad? Please can you fill in the potholes? What about that problem with Turkish tomatoes? Why haven’t you got married again? Did you really mess with the American election? Yes – today was the annual Putin phone-in, as the Russian President fielded questions from a nation getting everything, or ALMOST…
The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has promised to work with Ireland to avoid the return of a hard border with Northern Ireland, telling a joint session of the Irish parliament that “nothing should put peace at risk.” Our Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson is in Dublin now.
Tony Blair has called for a popular revolt to stop Brexit happening – with a cross-party movement to persuade people not to let Britain leave the EU. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson accused him of insulting the intelligence of the electorate, while the Greens’ Caroline Lucas described Mr Blair’s intervention as “staggeringly unhelpful.” Chief correspondent Alex…
In 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok. Most of them have still not been found and the abductions have continued. Our Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson has visited a camp in Maiduguri, where Unicef has helped support some of those abducted.
A former police officer involved in the Orgreave clashes during the miners’ strike says he was ordered to carry out instructions he believed were wrong, but he refused to go along with them.
Now at night, in hopelessly overloaded craft, they are pointed at destiny or death in the pitch-black moonless nights and heavy cloud of this week.
French riot police are preparing for further protests as demolition work at the ‘Jungle’ migrant camp in Calais continues.
Despite facing new torrents of flood water through their main street last night, residents of Glenridding say everyone is helping each other and others are worse off than them.