thomas heaton. _ stoking the fire. thomas heaton, thank _ stoking the fire.ning us in the programme. let's turn to the uk. there's growing pressure on the government to do more to stop migrants crossing the english channel on small boats after six people drowned off the coast of france. 59 people, many of them afghans, were rescued by coastguards. they say this is the seventh and this week they've had to pull people from water. uk ministers have pushed double or through parliament which make it illegalfor people to claim asylum in britain if they arrived on small boats. simonjones has the latest. despite yesterday's deaths in the channel off the coast of france, the crossings continued. 500 more people were brought to shore this weekend. every boat arriving puts more pressure on a prime minister who has made stopping them one of his top five priorities. labour says the people smugglers organising the journeys are "running rings" around the government and it accuses ministers of allowing the asylum backlog to get completely out of control. process cases, get d