France mulls preventing small boat crossings to UK

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00:00These migrants had been camping a few hundred metres from the beach near Calais.

00:05They were ready to board small boats headed for the United Kingdom when French police

00:09found their camp and ordered them to pack up and leave.

00:14We want to continue living freely.

00:16They shouldn't stop us but instead make it easier for us to get to the UK.

00:25The police called a local charity to bring food and water.

00:29The migrants ask us not to film their faces up close.

00:33Some tell us they don't want their families to see the conditions they're living in.

00:38How's it going?

00:42Not so good.

00:44We meet Iraqis, Egyptians, Afghans, Syrians and Kuwaitis.

00:49Many have travelled along smugglers routes from Turkey, like this woman who arrived in France

00:54six weeks ago.

00:57The journey here was very difficult.

00:58I went to Turkey, I stayed there for a few days, then I travelled in a truck illegally.

01:05After three days I arrived in France.

01:08Since then I've been trying to cross to the UK.

01:12They leave on foot but no one seems to know where they're going.

01:16The police escort them to make sure they don't set up camp again nearby.

01:22French police are trying to disrupt the plans led by migrants and their smugglers to cross

01:26the channel to the UK in small boats.

01:30The UK is paying France over 500 million euros to prevent small boats from crossing the channel.

01:37But the number of successful crossings is 42% higher than at the same time last year.

01:44That very morning, 14 small boats managed to cross to the UK.

01:51That very morning, 14 small boats managed to cross to the UK.

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