The cost of migration: The journey

Business Daily

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4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In the first of three programmes, the BBC’s Frey Lindsay accompanies the charity rescue vessel the Ocean Viking to explore the myriad costs involved in irregular migration across the Mediterranean.

Each year hundreds of thousands of people attempt the extremely dangerous crossing from Libya to Italy, paying smugglers thousands of dollars. We meet some of those people and find out how and why they're making the journey.

Presenter/producer: Frey Lindsay

(Picture: Rescuees huddle onboard the SOS Méditerranée rescue ship The Ocean Viking. Credit: BBC)

Transcript

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0:00.0	The documentary from the BBC World Service brings the globe to your ears through original documentary storytelling.
0:08.9	Search for The Documentary, wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:16.0	All teams ready for rescue.
0:19.2	Ready for rescue.
0:21.0	All teams, all teams, ready for rescue. Ready for rescue. All teams, all teams, ready for rescue.
0:24.3	Welcome to Business Daily on the BBC World Service.
0:29.6	I'm Frey Lindsay.
0:30.6	Ready.
0:35.6	The rescue crew of the charity rescue ship,
0:38.4	the Ocean Viking, speeds towards a tiny boat in distress
0:41.5	in the south of the Mediterranean Sea,
0:43.7	around 160 kilometres north of Tripoli in Libya.
0:47.1	It's a very overcrowded rubber boat,
0:49.1	not built for a journey like it's on,
0:50.8	and with its outer rubber skin nearly worn through.
0:53.5	And it's carrying 113 people
0:56.3	hello silence please you are safe you are safe stay silent stay silent and listen to me.
1:11.6	Okay?
1:12.6	We will give you live jackets and we will take you to the ship.
1:15.6	It's not easy. It will take some time, okay?
1:18.6	I need it close.
1:22.6	I need it closed.
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