The route most travelled: How migrants are making their way to Europe
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🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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From the BBC World Service: The BBC joins the Tunisian Coast Guard as the route from the north African country to Italy becomes the busiest route for migrants into Europe. Meanwhile, army officers have declared control over the oil-rich country Gabon. The BBC’s Africa Editor Will Ross explains what impact this could have. Finally, house sales in the U.K. fall by 20 percent in a month. We hear why from Aneisha Beveridge from Hamptons, a U.K.-based estate agency.
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| 0:00.0 | People will do desperate things to escape economic hardship. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, and you're listening to the Mocca Place Morning Report. |
| 0:07.3 | Live from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm Leana Bern, very good morning to you. |
| 0:12.2 | There's only 200 kilometers of water separating Tunisia from Italy, |
| 0:15.9 | and this has now become the busiest route in the world for migrants, |
| 0:19.1 | looking for a way into Europe for better economic prospects. |
| 0:22.2 | In the first six months of this year, 54,000 people were picked up |
| 0:25.6 | by the Italian or Tunisian coast guards according to the UN. |
| 0:28.9 | The BBC Arabic's Apasambunai went on patrol with the Tunisian National Coast Guard. |
| 0:37.5 | Within half an hour of us boarding the Coast Guard's petrol boat, |
| 0:42.4 | the Red R intercepts its first signal. |
| 0:47.8 | At first, two smorra, |
| 0:50.1 | more agile speedboats are deployed to locate the migrant boat |
| 0:55.0 | before towing it back. |
| 0:59.4 | But as the boats 46 passengers begin to disembark, |
| 1:03.8 | the Tunisian coast guards are met with a wave of anger. |
| 1:10.4 | Let us sue to Italy, one of them shouts, |
| 1:14.5 | all from West Africa, mostly Guinea and the Ivory Coast. |
| 1:19.6 | Many of them tell us it's their third, even fourth attempt |
| 1:23.8 | to cross the small stretch of sea. |
| 1:29.6 | We are also human. |
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