Now playing Next France Monitoring crossings will make migrants take more risks, says activist "People who want to go to England will continue to take all risks to go. And adding a plane and two helicopters will not change things. It will only push people to take even more risks." 09/12/2021
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Now playing Next France EU plane to be deployed over Channel after migrant deaths A plane operated by EU border agency Frontex will be deployed over the Channel to better identify smuggling networks, said the French interior minister at a meeting with European migration officials. 28/11/2021
Now playing Next Austria Austria arrests 15 people suspected of smuggling migrants The suspects transported more than 700 people at a total cost of more than €2.5 million, police said. 27/11/2021
Now playing Next Belarus Belarus will not force migrants to return home, says Lukashenko Lukashenko made his first public appearance at the Polish border since the start of the crisis. 26/11/2021
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Now playing Next Ukraine Ukraine sends 8,500 troops to its Belarus border over migrants fear The Belarus-Poland border crisis has sparked fears in Kyiv that migrants will soon be sent Ukraine's way. 25/11/2021
Now playing Next France France wants EU help to stop illegal migration after Channel tragedy At least 27 migrants died after their boat sank near Calais, authorities said, making it the largest tragedy of its kind in the Channel. 24/11/2021
Now playing Next Poland Poland reports more migrant crossing attempts from Belarus There were 267 attempts to cross the border fence from Belarus on Tuesday. 24/11/2021
Now playing Next Belarus Belarus' Lukashenko says EU should take in more migrants Lukashenko called on the EU to take in 2,000 migrants stranded in Belarus. The EU says Belarus has lured migrants to the country as part of a "hybrid attack" on the bloc. 22/11/2021
Now playing Next Poland Demonstrators on Poland-Belarus border demand more help for migrants Demonstrators in Poland - close to the Belarusian border - demand that the government does more to help migrants. 21/11/2021
Now playing Next Uncovering Europe Finns fear migrants will be sent to their border with Russia Poland and Lithuania say Belarus is intentionally sending migrants their way. Now there are fears Russia could do the same to Finland. 19/11/2021
Now playing Next Belarus Poland confirms Belarus border camp cleared as migrants given shelter The latest moves are being seen as a sign that Lukashenko is now keen to defuse the crisis the EU and the West accuse him of orchestrating. 19/11/2021
Now playing Next Croatia Europe rights court slams Croatia on Afghan family pushback The court ruled that Croatia illegally pushed back a migrant family in 2017. A 6-year-old girl was killed by a train on the border with Serbia shortly after the removal. 18/11/2021
Now playing Next Belarus Belarus: Iraqi migrants caught in border tensions fly home 374 Iraqi migrants boarded the first repatriation flight that left Minsk on Thursday amid severe border tensions with Poland. 18/11/2021