6月16日BBC聽力：法災黎穿越英吉祥海峽引擔心
Refugees are risking their lives trying to get to Britain by crossing the channel in small boats.While this is raising fears of a similar situation to that in the Mediterranean where thousandshave died. It's starting to become a very similar situation to that seen in the Mediterranean. Mybiggest fear is that the same kind of tragedies we see in Greece or Italy will start to repeat inthe channel. And this is a migrant camp near the French port city Dieppe, is home to ahundred and fifty migrants at the moment，desperate to reach the UK. Everyeverywhere，every position，every situation，we can go we go. In France, there is no chancefor me to get paid，or to work here. So that's why I come to stay here，trying to get toEngland. Well, the channel is around 50 kilometers wide at its narrowest point. You can seehere between Calais and Dover. It's one of the busy shipping routes too in the world.Thousands of migrants have been living near the French port of Calais，trying get into the UK,but security has been stepped up and many are forced to seek other routes. And this is one ofthe boat used by the migrants in their bid to enter the UK. Smugglers demand up to 10,000pounds for the crossing. It is reported that around 50 migrants a week crossing the channelthis way. Concerns are now being raised that this number will actually increase too. Polly Boikomet some of the volunteers monitoring the coastline.
David and fellow coast watches Bob and Jackie a part of a team that monitors what's happeningin the waters of the English Channel. We will always pass on to UK border force anyobservation that we regard as suspicious. There are more than 2,000 volunteers just likethem，watching from 51 specially equipped stations around the UK coast. Last month，18illegal immigrants from Albania were rescued from a dinghy of the Kent coast. It sparkedconcerns that the UK's coastline is vulnerable to smugglers,looking for new ways to getpeople into the country. The UK's National Crime Agency has warned that because security hasbeen stepped up in major ports around the country. Human traffickers are now targetingsmaller ones like this one in Newhaven. That's the ferry that comes in daily from Dieppe inFrance. There's no visible border security checking the trucks as they offload. In fact at themoment, Britain's Border Force has just three cutters patrolling over 7,000 miles of coastline.If you compare it to France who have 40 cutters that show you who's investing in what. I thinkwe're very exposed I think we need to reinvest in our border security. I want to know if thelocals in Newhaven especially those with sealegs think that the British coast needs moreprotection. They don't have enough facilities. Now that's why I think supposedly I am going tobring the Navy into sort of do some more patrolling. The government says its buying anunspecified number of boats to complement the work of the patrol vessels already in thewater. And is setting up maritime coordination hubs to make sure people，drugs andweapons aren't smuggled into the UK. In the meantime in Newhaven up in thisTower，volunteer David is still holding the fort.
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