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Speaker 1: Devin Grays, our UK europe correspondent, large search and rescue

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Speaker 1: operation underwe in the English Channel. Devin, what's heaven?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Ryan, I'm afraid another boat carrying migrants trying to

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Speaker 2: cross the English Channel to enter the UK illegally has capsized.

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Speaker 2: More than fifty people have been rescued, according to the

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Speaker 2: French Ghost Guard, but twelve people, including we now believe

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Speaker 2: a pregnant woman has died. This is the deadliest disaster

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Speaker 2: this year in the Channel. Indeed, some are suggesting it's

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Speaker 2: probably the biggest single fatality for several years within the Channel.

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Speaker 2: Downing Street here in the UK saying the news is

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Speaker 2: truly horrific. More than twenty thousand people have made the

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Speaker 2: crossing from France to the UK so far this year,

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Speaker 2: but the numbers of deaths has also risen significantly in

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Speaker 2: this last year alone, and they're saying that's because quite simply,

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Speaker 2: the people smugglers are getting more ruthless. They're using boats

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Speaker 2: that simply aren't capable of carrying people and certainly are

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Speaker 2: not seaworthy. Indeed, this boat was seven meters long which

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Speaker 2: has sunk, and it was overloaded with seventy people and

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Speaker 2: quite simply, I'm afraid it seemed to go under. We

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Speaker 2: have had some windier rougher seas and I'm afraid it

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Speaker 2: just looks like this, both simply capsized, terrible.

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Speaker 1: The former boss of Volkswagen has appeared in court. This

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Speaker 1: is the well, huge scandal, but years and years ago

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Speaker 1: now taken a while to get to court.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it sure has so. Nine years after the cow

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Speaker 2: maker was found to have rigged the missions tests, the

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Speaker 2: former boss of Volkswagen, Martin Vintercon, chief executive company in

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Speaker 2: twenty fifteen, is on trial. He denies the charges. We've

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Speaker 2: just had the first day of the so called diesel

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Speaker 2: Gate trial, and if found guilty, the seventy seven year

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Speaker 2: old could face up to ten years in prison. Now

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Speaker 2: you'll remember the diesel Gate scandal erupted in September twenty fifteen,

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Speaker 2: and that was because American environmental protection agencies accused Volkswagen

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Speaker 2: of installing illegal software on cars called defeat devices. And

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Speaker 2: what that meant was software within the car recognized that

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Speaker 2: the vehicle was being tested in a laboratory and managed

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Speaker 2: to turn on emissions control so that it would pass

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Speaker 2: the tests as soon as it was outside the laboratory,

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Speaker 2: it would turn them on again in order to boost performance.

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Speaker 2: And of course it became a scandal which engulfed Audi, Porsche,

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Speaker 2: Sayout and Scoder as well as Volkswagen itself. And indeed

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Speaker 2: the scandal is said to cost more than fifty five

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Speaker 2: billion New Zealand dollars in fines to Volkswagen.

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Speaker 1: Kevin, thank you for that, Givin Gray, UK europe correspondent.

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