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The cost of migration: The rescue boats
The increasing running costs facing charities operating in the Mediterranean Sea.
In the second of three programmes, we’ll hear about the increasing running costs facing charities involved in running search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea.
Inflated fuel prices, cost of living crises and political interference are all driving the costs of the operation up. So can the boats continue to operate?
Presenter: Frey Lindsay
(Photo: Search and rescue crew onboard the SOS Méditerranée rescue ship The Ocean Viking)
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Tue 19 Sep 202307:32GMT
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- Tue 19 Sep 202307:32GMTBBC World Service
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