The English Channel deaths

Britain and France have called for stronger international coordination to tackle human trafficking, after at least 27 people died trying to cross the English Channel. Despite the deaths, more boats have arrived in the UK today, and we’ll spend most of the programme discussing why people want to reach Britain.

We’ll hear voices from the countries of those who died yesterday to hear why people are leaving. And we put audience questions to our experts about how people arrive in Europe, and what happens after they have reached the continent.

We’ll look again at the wave of Covid infections across Europe and discuss the developments with our regular health expert Dr Emma Hodcroft in Switzerland.

(Photo: The grave of a migrant who died while trying to cross illegally from France into Britain, at the Cimetiere Nord, in Calais, France, 25 November 2021. Credit: MOHAMMED BADRA/EPA)