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Weekend: Hundreds missing after migrant boat sinks off Greek coast

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Hundreds missing after migrant boat sinks off Greek coast

17/06/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Hundreds missing after migrant boat sinks off Greek coast

Greek search and rescue operation finds no new survivors from sunken migrant boat

Greek search and rescue operation finds no new survivors from sunken migrant boat.

A search and rescue operation has found no new survivors nor recovered more bodies from the boat carrying hundreds of migrants which sank off the coast of Greece on Wednesday. 

Also on the programme: Russia’s information war over Ukraine conflict; and how human immune systems are reacting to a changing world.

Our panellists are Manmit Bhambra, inclusion and access lead at the Old Vic theatre in London, and Remi Adekoya, politics lecturer at the UK's University of York.

Photo: Shipwreck survivors in Kalamata, Greece, await transfer to a refugee camp near Athens. Credit: Byron Smith/Getty Images

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