Von der Leyen: Lampedusa migrant crisis is a European challenge

Global News Podcast

BBC

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4.3 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The European Commission president promises a detailed plan on a visit to the Italian island, which has seen thousands of migrants arrive. Also: Rescue teams are still recovering bodies in the flood stricken Libyan city of Derna as the international aid effort gathers pace and, the Grammy-award winning producer who has made an album with prisoners in a notorious US jail.

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0:00.0	This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:06.3	I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Monday,
0:09.6	the 18th of September, these are our main stories,
0:13.3	a storm brewing over immigration in the European Union
0:16.6	as thousands crossed from North Africa
0:18.6	to the Italian island of Lampedusa.
0:21.1	The U.S. National Security Advisor
0:22.9	and China's Foreign Minister
0:24.4	conclude two days of talks in Malta.
0:26.7	And...
0:27.5	It was multiple hits.
0:28.8	They were going definitely for the rather...
0:31.0	Did you get the impression they were hunting you?
0:33.3	100%.
0:34.1	Definitely, there is one thing I have zero doubt about
0:36.7	is that they were hunting.
0:38.0	Our killer whale is developing a taste for humans.
0:43.9	Also in this podcast,
0:45.4	not a single woman is left among Japan's 54 junior government ministers
0:50.4	in the latest reshuffle and...
0:52.8	One of the individuals has one of the deepest voices,
0:55.4	one of the greatest instruments
	...

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