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Global News Podcast

Greece boat disaster: Nine are arrested

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Hundreds are still missing after one of Europe's worst migrant disasters. Also: NATO members discuss the future of support for Ukraine, and the Highway To Hell that officials want to rename.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.2

I'm Charlotte Gallagher and in the early hours of Friday, the 16th of June,

0:11.2

these are our main stories. Nine people are arrested following the sinking of a migrant ship,

0:16.9

which has killed about 80 people with 600 still missing. The UN Secretary General says the global

0:24.8

response to climate change has been pitiful as Northwest India and Southern Pakistan

0:30.9

are hit by one of the most powerful cyclones there in years. And German police say a woman

0:37.0

has died after being assaulted near one of the country's most popular tourist sites.

0:44.0

Also in this podcast, RoboCops take to the streets of Singapore and…

0:54.8

I mean, we've been in touch with a lot of scientists. A scientist was with us.

0:58.1

This had never been seen before by the scientists.

1:01.2

A film crew is close encounter with a tiger shark.

1:08.8

We begin with a tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea. Nine Egyptians have been arrested on suspicion

1:15.5

of people smuggling after a migrant boat disaster off the coast of Greece. Nearly 80 people are

1:22.6

known to have died. Hundreds are still missing. And it's feared that as many as 750 people were on

1:29.6

board, survivors have told the BBC that up to 100 children may have been on the ship.

1:35.5

This man is looking for his relatives.

1:37.9

I'm a relative who's on the boat to the cap side. How do you know that?

1:43.1

We've had confirmation that we found one of the relatives isn't in there,

1:47.0

but the rest of them we haven't got hold of yet.

1:49.6

Many minutes.

1:51.6

Nick Beak, who we heard there, is at the port of Kalamata where the survivors are being treated.

1:57.1

He filed this report just before we recorded the podcast.

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