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This year more than a thousand people - mostly young men - have died trying to a reach Europe and a new life.
The real number who die trying to cross the Atlantic in open boats from the West Coast of Africa to the Canaries is far higher - they just never find the bodies.
Spanish patrols have effectively stopped the shortest people smuggling routes from Africa into Spain and the Canaries. Now the smugglers set off on a more dangerous voyage five hundred miles further south from Mauritania.
Cycle rage is a well known phenomenon, but normally directed at cyclists by drivers rather than between those on two wheels, writes Andrew Thomas. The pedal-powered traffic on London’s roads is getting ridiculous. Twice in an eleven minute ride – crossing both City and Kings Cross Road – I nearly collide with others on bikes. What’s shocking is that that’s about average.
Into ITN and straight to the basement for a machine-manufactured latte while speed-reading the papers. At 10, up to the More4 office on the Ground Floor. Our morning meeting dovetails with Channel 4's. Today’s agenda? Another African famine is looming. "Yet another" it’s all too tempting to say.
Our task on More4 is to approach the day’s stories from an alternative angle. We discuss a number of approaches and decide to look at the environmental cause of the famine rather than how to cure it: could deforestation in Brazil lead to drought there in decades to come?
Osama Bin Laden is trying to open a new front in the war on terror - in the heart of Africa.
Whether or not the recent Egyptian attack had a nything to do with Al Qaeda, it did come a day after his latest message attempted to extend his sphere of influence as far as Sudan.
But is it surprising that the conflict in Darfur, which pits Sudan's Islamic government and its Arab militia against African rebel groups, should be drawn into the global clash between al Qaeda and the west?
Nima Elbagir has been talking to a former bin Laden associate in Khartoum - she reports from Sudan on why Darfur risks being the next Iraq.
Refugee numbers are at their lowest for 25 years. So why are so many western governments getting more hostile to them?
The number of refugees and asylum seekers across the world has dropped dramatically in the last five years according to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees or UNHCR.
The report states that there are now 9 point 2 million refugees - the lowest amount for 25 years. But the report states the dynamic of refugees is changing and the international community's "biggest failure" is the issue of internal displacement.
Sarah Smith spoke to the High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres and began by asking him what the UN can do for people who are internally displaced.
More 4 News has exclusively interviewed a team member of Aegis that allegedly shot at Iraqi civilians.
"We don't know whether it was an innocent civilian or whether that was an insurgent - we don't know, because we never stop". The words of a former security consultant, explaining the story behind the video footage.
He told More 4 News the contractors began firing on anyone who came too close after their employer - Aegis defence Systems - took away Arabic warning signs that had been used to distinguish their vehicles.
