migrant crisis

Europe’s problem – seeking Europe’s solution. As thousands more migrants and asylum seekers attempt the dangerous journey by the day, France now says it plans to set up screening centres inside Libya – President Macron says he hopes it will stop people taking “crazy risks”. Up to a million people are inside Libyan camps trying…

This week and last, we’ve been reporting on the migrant crisis across the Mediterranean and the political tensions faced by countries like Italy, where many of the arrivals are landed. The people smugglers are a major part of that desperate equation – both along the North African shores and as the migrants set off out…

We’ve been filming out at sea with migrants off the Libyan coast, and witness a tense stand-off between the coastguard and the charity rescue boat which our team was travelling on. We ask whether the charities who rescue people are effectively encouraging more to make that dangerous voyage by sea. A warning: there are distressing…

Italian Ambassador to the UK, Pasquale Terracciano, says the UN has conceded that his country cannot cope on its own with the migrant crisis. He says without European solidarity, Italy’s ports will be overwhelmed.