The captain, you know, he went on the radio and he's like,

we just want to make sure everyone knows he has a perfect champion on the plane.

On the podium is back with more Olympians and Paralympians sharing their remarkable stories.

On the podium, listen now wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Andrew Peach at 13 GMT on Wednesday the 9th of August. These are our main stories.

I witness this say more than 40 migrants have been killed in a shipwreck off the coast of Italy.

Nine bodies are found and are burned out holiday home for adults with learning disabilities

in eastern France. Poland increases troop numbers on its border with Belarus as it says more migrants

are trying to cross.

Also in this podcast, because of the three years of the pandemic,

our incomes are not as stable.

Consumer prices fall in China tipping the world's second largest economy into deflation.

First, eyewitnesses say 41 migrants have drowned off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa

after their boat capsized. Survivors say the vessel had set off from Tunisia.

Our correspondent in Rome Sophia Betizzi reports.

We do know that 41 migrants died and they were killed in a shipwreck off the coast

of Italy's island of Lampedusa, which is in the south of the country in Sicily.

This is all being reported by Italian media and by their news agency Ansa.

They have spoken to the only four people who survived the shipwreck,

three men and one woman from the Ivory Coast and from Guinea.

So what they said is that they were on a boat that had set off from Tunisia on Thursday.

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