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Gavin Grey: UK correspondent on eight migrants dying after attempting to cross the English Channel from France · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: We're going to Devin gray Are UK europe correspondent Gevin
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  Speaker 1: Eight people have died. This is another boating tragedy on
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  Speaker 1: the Channel.
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  Speaker 2: He was at the scene in northern France. Six taken
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  Speaker 2: to hospital, including a baby with hypothermia. Rescue services alerted
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  Speaker 2: at one am local time to the waters north of
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  Speaker 2: Boulogne Sioux Mayre. It was a rubber vessel packed with
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  Speaker 2: sixty people on board. Countries they came from ranging from Eritrea, Sudan,
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  Speaker 2: Syria and Iran. And all this less than a fortnight
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  Speaker 2: after twelve people, including six children, had died when a
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  Speaker 2: boat carrying dozens of migrants sank, in the deadliest loss
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  Speaker 2: of life in the Channel this year. This has been
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  Speaker 2: a busy weekend. On Saturday, eight hundred people across the Channel,
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  Speaker 2: the second highest daily total made so far this year.
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  Speaker 1: Also, this from storm boris.
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  Speaker 2: A really dreadful and continental Europe. At least seven people
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  Speaker 2: have died, many others are missing. After widespread flooding across
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  Speaker 2: eastern and central Europe. More rainfall expected in the coming days.
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  Speaker 2: Surging river levels really really causing problems for authorities. Tens
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  Speaker 2: of thousands of homes have been damaged so far in
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  Speaker 2: Romania where five died. In the Czech Republic thousands have
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  Speaker 2: been evacuated, and on Sunday one person who's found to
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  Speaker 2: have dowed in southwest Poland that was a firefight of
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  Speaker 2: tackling flooding as well in Austria also died. I'm afraid
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  Speaker 2: some amazing statistics four hundred and fifty millimeters of rain
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  Speaker 2: has fallen since Wednesday evening.
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  Speaker 1: Goodness smooth. Thank you so much for Thatkevin Gray are
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  Speaker 1: UK europe correspondent.
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