Morning briefing Tuesday 26th August

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0:46They include government boasters that will target asylum seekers in camps near Calais, warning them that they will waste their money if they pay traffickers. But critics say the imminent one-in-one-out deal with France is unworkable and will not be a sufficient deterrent. The Times reporter Emma Yeomans is in Gravelines on the northern French coast. She says the smuggling gangs there are increasingly well organised and ruthless. We had multiple groups of migrants arrive on the beach at a similar time. And then some migrants would attempt to get on a boat and discover it was not the boat that was intended for them.

1:21And if they tried to board it, we saw migrants being thrown off, literally thrown back into the sea, being pushed back, slapped at, to make sure the so-called only the right people got on the right boat. A former US ambassador says Benjamin Netanyahu's expression of regret over yesterday's missile strikes by Israel on one of Gaza's main hospitals is worthless. Gaza's Hamasruan Health Ministry says at least 20 people were killed in the attack on Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Win Stanley is also a President Emerita of the Middle East Council. Speaking to Times Radio, she demanded Israel be held to greater accountability for its military action.

2:02Even if they admit it was their mistake, where is the accountability? How many times have journalists reported from there or outside of the Gazastrum, that a military person, someone in the chain of command, has been held responsible, that's very, very rare indeed. The government is to introduce measures to crack down on so-called honour-based abuse. It comes four years after the death of Fawziah Javad. She was 17 weeks pregnant when she was murdered by her husband after deciding to leave their marriage. Honour-based abuse is motivated by the perception that a person has brought shame to themselves, their family or their community.

2:43The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, will today roll out a campaign encouraging people to use headphones when listening to music and other audio material on the capital's public transport. Posters on the Elizabeth line will also remind people not to have phone conversations on speaker mode. Ted Granger is the Head of External Affairs at Popular Conservatism. He says it fits into a wider pattern of low-level nuisance behaviour. It's quite symbolic really that we're having this debate now because we've seen such a spike in it. A few years ago we didn't need to talk about fining people for playing music out loud because people had a greater sense of social responsibility and didn't do this.

3:24I don't know quite what happened, whether it was the pandemic and people forgot how to behave properly. And a trade union is warning that swimming ball closures are leaving children at risk of drowning. The GMB claims learning to swim is a basic life skill, which is being denied to thousands of young people. The government, however, insists it's investing in grassroots sport facilities. You can follow the Times News Briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio Online.

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