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It's introduced by Kate Adi.

Hello, today it's like a tap you can't turn off.

An Italian mayor on the migrants still coming ashore in a Europe that neither wants them nor knows what to do with them.

A clampdown on Islamic extremists in Kosovo, how do you come to terms with a jihadi in the family?

Still no sign of a ceasefire taking hold in eastern Ukraine, but in the

west of the country they can dine out on the conflict with Russia. And do beautiful Ugandan women really have goats on their heads?

We've had to go to Central China for an answer to that one.

The European Union this week announced it was launching a new maritime operation aimed at saving migrants in the Mediterranean.

Hundreds have died this year attempting the dangerous crossing from North Africa,

and the Italian government has been

demanding that Brussels take full control of the problem and the vast expense it

entails. The EU says it will send two planes and three patrol vessels as part of the new mission, which it's calling Triton.

But it stressed the idea was to support rather than replace the efforts being made by Italy.

Emma Jane Kirby's been to the poor town of Syracusa to see some of the difficulties

the Italians face on their southern shoreline.

The sicker led off the cargo ship first, followed by the

pregnant women. I count five who must be full term. The ship is three hours late

docking because one lady has already gone into labor on board and has had to be

airlifted to hospital. Most of the migrants are African, Nigerian, Sudanese and Eritrean.

They all file down the gangplank onto the key side with the same impassive bewildered

gaze squinting into the sulfur floodlights at the swarms of police charity workers and

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