Europe migrant crisis

Watch video of French police destroying a boat in the English Channel in a rare and unusual intervention, which police have made clear is not a new tactic.

Some 70 lone children arrived on small boats on Wednesday, the most in one day, a Kent council says.

Sir Keir Starmer has promised to "smash the gangs" which smuggle people across the English Channel.

Seventeen coastguards have been charged by a Greek naval court over the deadliest migrant boat disaster in the Mediterranean Sea for a decade.

Those rescued include a child and their mother, who were airlifted to hospital in France.

BBC Verify tracks a man accused of selling places on a migrant boat which left dozens dead after getting lost at sea.

In 2016, Pope Francis visited Lesbos and flew 12 migrants back to Italy on his plane - Wafaa Eid was one of them.

Citizens from Kosovo, Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, India, Morocco and Tunisia would all have their claims fast-tracked.