dan o'mahoney served in iraq and kosovo and will now be the clandestine channel threat commander. ut pressure on the french to turn the boats back at sea. on thursday 235 people were intercepted crossing the english channel — a record for a single day. on friday, 146 people arrived on 17 boats, and yesterday in 151 crossed in 15 boats. the british navy could now be brought in. it is a small boats crossings crisis, and so we do need to look at more options. in relation to the navy, what we have seen with border force at the moment is they pick up boats and bring them into britain. if the navy or indeed the border force are to be really effective in shutting down this small boats trafficking route then they need to make sure boats are returned to france, and we need french agreement to make sure this happens. but there are concerns about safety and whether the french will allow the navy to operate in its waters. france says it will need more cash from the uk to tackle the problem. both sides agree something needs to be done to prevent a tragedy at sea. simonjones, bbc news, dover. pe

this appointment of a new job, a clandestine channel threat commander, apparently modelled on australia'sian situation is quite different from ours where we are, after all, only talking about one stretch of water which is narrowest at 23 miles wide? yes, that title to me sounds like something out of 20,000 leagues under the sea, or thunderbirds, something out of 20,000 leagues underthe sea, orthunderbirds, or something. he sounds like he has an awful amount of power for one person. however i think priti patel also wants to be seen as taking this extremely seriously, it is playing to the tory base as it were. i don't think it is potentially the best, most humane prototype to be following the australian pushback methods. they've come under an awful lot of international criticism for being quite so harsh in their dealings with people who stray into their waters. it is a problem and i think this is a nautical nimby situation where everybody feels enormous amounts of compassion and wa nt enormous amounts of compassion and want to be seen doing the right thing, but nobody wants to deal with the

dan 0'mahoney served in iraq and kosovo and will now be the clandestine channel threat commander. e french to turn the boats back at sea. on thursday 235 people were intercepted crossing the english channel — a record for a single day. on friday 146 people arrived on 17 boats, and yesterday in 151 crossed in 15 boats. the british navy could now be brought in. it is a small boats crossings crisis, and so we do need to look at more options. in relation to the navy, what we have seen with border force at the moment is they pick up boats and bring them into britain. if the navy or indeed the border force are to be really effective in shutting down this small boats trafficking route then they need to make sure boats are returned to france, and we need french agreement to make sure this happens. but there are concerns about safety and whether the french will allow the navy to operate in its waters. france says it will need more cash from the uk to tackle the problem. both sides agree something needs to be done to prevent a tragedy at sea. simonjones, bbc news, dover. the operator of the

it comes as the government has appointed a former royal marine to the new role of clandestine channel threat a bid to tackle the number crossing. simonjones reports from dover. the crossings continue. these are the latest migrants arriving at dover picked up by the channel force —— borderforce dover picked up by the channel force —— border force after making dover picked up by the channel force —— borderforce after making it dover picked up by the channel force —— border force after making it into british waters. they are hoping to begina british waters. they are hoping to begin a new life here, as pressure mounts on the government to take action. conditions on the channel, like in previous days, are incredibly calm, and that is why migrants see this is the perfect weather to attempt to get across the channel, but they are being warned once again they are risking their lives crossing the busiest shipping lane in the world. this is the man appointed by the home secretary to try to make the route unviable. dan o'mahoney will now be the land stein channel threat commander. you will be putting p

it is the clandestinely channel threat commander.e person responsible for this, a man called dan 0'mahony, will be responsible for trying to stem the tide. he is a former royal marine, he has previously served in iraq and kosovo, and he has said what he wa nts to kosovo, and he has said what he wants to do initially his try to tackle the heinous crime being perpetrated by people traffickers. he also says this is a very pressing issue. he could have the help of the british military in coming weeks, but others have tried that before and it will not be an easy task. the headlines on bbc news: tear gas is fired at protesters in beirut during mass demonstrations after last week's catastophic explosion in the city. security officials say the blast left a crater 43 metres deep. here in the uk, prime minister borisjohnson says it's a "moral duty" and a "national priority" for schools to reopen fully in england next month. 400 taliban militants are to be released after a vote by afghanistan's loya jirga, or grand assembly, in kabul. the coron

it is called the clandestinely channel threat commander.has appointed a man called dan 0'mahony to that position. he is a former military man who has served in iraq and kosovo and he has not been given the job of trying to make this route is unviable. he has said that he wants to tackle what he calls the heinous crime of people trafficking, stress and this is a very urgent issue. we have heard lots of talk in recent months about the uk gets this, about putting pressure on the french authorities to do more, but the reality is that people are arriving in bigger numbers than ever before. the number of companies in the uk planning mass redundancies injune was five times higher than during the same period last year, according to figures obtained by the bbc under a freedom of information request. airbus, royal mail and hsbc were among nearly 1,800 firms which announced job cuts injune. here's our business correspondent katy austin. among the businesses which announced redundancy plans in june were airbus, centrica and the restaurant group, the ow

job created by the home office to oversee the response that has in the title the words clandestine channel threat the word invasion being bandied about by conservative party m.p.'s demanding the government do more to stop it and all of that has led to campaigners suggesting that the government is using this as an opportunity a little summer opportunity to sort of on the one hand brick city its burnished burnish its brakes it credentials with a deadline looming for a trade deal with the e.u. in the next few months and also at least among a portion of the government support to distract attention away from the consequences of coronavirus ok i think that they're live from deal in kent county. nearly $2000000.00 people in gaza are facing power shortages as the only power plant there is forced to shut down that's because israel has cut off fuel shipments to the territory israel says it's in response to rocket attacks and firebombs by the palestinian group hamas which controls gaza by force it has more from western on what impacts the power cuts are likely to have. that would mean that the amounts of el

be working at pace in the coming days to make that plan a reality. 0ur newly appointed clandestine channel threate returning to france early next week to continue those discussions. i'm also delighted that the french made a commitment to appoint their own commander to take responsibility in this area, which is a very important step forward. chris philp. let's return to the news that the uk has seen the largest fall in over a decade as the coronavirus pandemic hits the jobs market. the number of people in the uk, on company payrolls, fell by 730,000 between march and july, according to the office for national statistics. but the uk unemployment rate remained at 3.9%, largely unchanged on the year and the previous quarter. unemployment has not surged as much as feared, because large numbers of firms have put employees on the government—backed furlough scheme. with me now is our business presenter, ben thompson. what do you read into these figures? you are right, what these figures tell us more importantly is what might happen next as opposed to what the figures tell us about the state of thejobs th