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Radio 4,04 Jul 2017,45 mins

New plan to stem the flow of migrants crossing the Mediterranean

The World Tonight

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The Italians, who are bearing the brunt of the crisis, aren't impressed. The United States is asking the UN Security Council to meet in emergency session to discuss North Korea's latest missile test How the Israeli spy agency is openly investing in the country's high-tech sector and we meet the boy being called the Indian Billy Elliot. (picture: Migrants picked up off the Libyan coast waiting to disembark in Italy; copyright EPA/Orietta Scardino).

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