{"id":250788,"date":"2025-07-09T12:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250788\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T12:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:54:14","slug":"bbc-verify-live-satellite-captures-texas-flood-damage-and-ukraine-says-russia-air-attack-biggest-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250788\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Satellite captures Texas flood damage and Ukraine says Russia air attack biggest of war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have 12,000 people been prevented from crossing the Channel in small boats?published at 10:43 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>10:43 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/793b389a-b140-4f38-9a98-ab68f375d72c.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Tamara Kovacevic<\/strong><br \/>BBC Verify senior journalist<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People thought to be migrants wade through the sea to board a small boat leaving the beach at Gravelines, France. A policeman is seen in the foreground.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/f7963e6b-5414-4c5d-a3c0-5b3b53fa247d.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, PA Media<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defending the government\u2019s cooperation with France on small boats, government minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said on Today on BBC Radio 4: \u201cPreventing 12,000 people from crossing is most definitely something that is in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The figure is an estimate by the French authorities, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published weekly by the Home office since May 2024, external<\/a>. This year, from 5 January to 29 June, a total of 12,321 people were prevented, according to those estimates, which include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssrcss-1ynsflq-UnorderedList e1q8fsc70\">\n<li spacing=\"rich-text\" class=\"ssrcss-131sxq9-Stack e1y4nx260\">\n      Individuals prevented from leaving France or those who return to France\n    <\/li>\n<li spacing=\"rich-text\" class=\"ssrcss-131sxq9-Stack e1y4nx260\">\n      Finds of small boat equipment\n    <\/li>\n<li spacing=\"rich-text\" class=\"ssrcss-131sxq9-Stack e1y4nx260\">\n      Arrests of people linked to small boats crossings.\n    <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But how reliable are those figures and are people not just trying again another day?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Madeleine Sumption from the Migration Observatory, based at the University of Oxford, says there is evidence that migrants make multiple attempts to cross the Channel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a result, she says: \u201cIt is not possible to say, based on current data, how many people have been prevented from crossing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Have 12,000 people been prevented from crossing the Channel in small boats?published at 10:43 British Summer Time 10:43&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-250788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114823382364595046","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}