2025-07-11
29 分钟You're listening to the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.
This edition is published in the early hours of Friday the 11th of July.
Britain has reached an agreement with France to return some migrants who cross the English Channel in small boats.
Vladimir Zelensky says he's had positive conversations with President Trump about the US providing Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine.
And Palestinian children queuing for nutritional supplements are killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza.
Also in the podcast The original Birkin handbag has sold at auction for more than 10 million dollars Repeated efforts to solve the small boats crisis in the English Channel have failed.
Already this year more than 20,000 migrants have made the dangerous crossing from northern France to southern England.
Britain and France have now announced a one-in, one-out deal which will see some of them returned.
In exchange,
an equivalent number of migrants currently in France will then be allowed to come into Britain legally.
A pilot scheme will start in weeks.
The British Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, said illegal migration was a global crisis.
It is also very acutely a crisis for our two nations,
a crisis of law, security, humanity and fairness.
We face a sprawling multi-billion pound enterprise run by organised criminal gangs needing hundreds of people to their death in the channel.
So we're determined together to end this vile trade.
There is no silver bullet here.
But with a united effort, new tactics and a new level of intent, we can finally turn the tables.
The French president Emmanuel Macron is the first European leader to make a state visit to the UK