UK - Rwanda bill: Will it deter small boat crossings?
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Migrants to be sent abroad for asylum processing. Ministers say the legislation will deter small boat crossings. Father begins legal action against BP over son's cancer death in Iraq. Voyager-1 sends readable data again from deep space. Elon Musk Sydney church stabbing video row. The US state that wants to fine homeless sleepers. UK woman races topless in the London marathon to show her mastectomy scars. Shakespeare a man of words and numbers.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:03.6 | I'm Janet Joliet Juleil and at 13 hours GMT on Tuesday the 23rd of April, |
| 0:09.8 | these are our main stories. |
| 0:11.8 | Just hours after the British government passes a contentious bill |
| 0:15.4 | to deport migrants to Rwanda. |
| 0:17.4 | Five people die trying to sail to the UK from France |
| 0:21.2 | in a distressing scene witnessed by our reporter. |
| 0:24.0 | There were just far too many people trying to squeeze inside this little inflatable |
| 0:29.0 | dinghy. |
| 0:30.0 | What we've since learned is that we were watching people almost certainly being crushed underfoot, |
| 0:34.0 | perhaps suffocated trample to death. |
| 0:37.0 | A father begins legal action against oil giant BP over his son's cancer death in Iraq. |
| 0:43.0 | NASA's furthest-flung probe carrying messages from Earth |
| 0:48.0 | finally phones home after five months of no contact. Also in this podcast if I'd have asked a year ago my family or |
| 0:58.2 | anybody else if it was a good idea to run topless I'm sure a hundred percent of them would have said no I don't think so but I didn't ask |
| 1:05.2 | then I did it. The woman who raced Toppless in the London marathon to show her |
| 1:09.8 | mastectomy scars. Just hours after the British government finally managed to push through a controversial |
| 1:20.2 | bill to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, there's been a poignant reminder of the |
| 1:25.3 | human cost of people illegally trying to enter Britain. |
| 1:29.2 | At least five people, including a child, have died while trying to cross the channel from France. |
| 1:35.0 | Our correspondent Andrew Harding was on the beach near Calais as people there tried to board an |
| 1:39.2 | inflatable boat and he witnessed the chaos that followed. We should warn you that some of his |
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