Dark channel: The people smugglers and their clients
The Story7 Jul 2021

Dark channel: The people smugglers and their clients

Increasing numbers of people from Iran are being sold an escape package out of Turkey and then onto the UK. Who are the men, women and children risking their lives crossing the world's busiest shipping route? And who are the people who sell them the trip?


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Guest: Louise Callaghan, Middle east correspondent for The Sunday Times.


Host: David Aaronovitch.


Clips: BBC, Channel 4 News.

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