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Weekend: European Commission president to visit Lampedusa

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European Commission president to visit Lampedusa

17/09/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, European Commission president to visit Lampedusa

It comes as unprecedented numbers of people have been arriving in the Italian island

It comes as unprecedented numbers of people have been arriving in the Italian island this week.

The President of the European Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen, will visit the Italian island of Lampedusa on Sunday. She is there to discuss the unprecedented number of migrants who arrived last week. 

Also in the programme: the number of deaths from Libya's catastrophic flooding continues to rise; and we delve deep into an album that's been recorded in a US prison.

Joining host Audrey Brown to discuss this and more are Taran Khan, an Indian journalist and writer, and Marcus Chown, British science journalist and writer.

(Picture: Migrants are seen inside a processing centre on the Italian island of Lampedusa. Credit: Yara Nardi/Reuters)

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