BBC investigation uncovers Channel smuggling gang's hideout

A BBC investigation has exposed the French and British links of a powerful and violent Iraqi smuggling gang taking people across the English Channel in small boats. We are joined by our correspondent Andrew Harding who also gained unprecedented access to the smugglers' forest hideout in northern France.

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Presenter: Mark Lowen
[Photo: Migrants being led through a forest by smuggler Abdullah, ahead of attempting a Channel crossing. Credit: BBC]