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The first country in the west crushed by the pandemic is seeing a grim history repeating itself, and hopes its not too late to turn the tide. mark lowen, bbc news, rome. here in the uk, a military operation onboard a tanker in the english channel has ended with the arrest of seven people after special forces stormed the ship. its thought stowaways were causing problems on board the vessel, which had sailed from lagos in nigeria. the bbc‘s duncan kennedy has the latest. it really has been an ex...

They detained seven individuals, and were told the whole operation only took around nine minutes, so a very quick operation. an extremely highly proficient professional service, the sbs. very well—known in many parts of the world. were also told that no members of the crew were hurt during this operation. it was authorised by the home secretary and the defence secretary earlier on this evening at the request of the local police force, hampshire police, and presumably in the intervening hours, ...

And made verbal threats to the crew. they retreated to a safe place on board the ship. there are few official details from the ministry of defence, but its understood several military helicopters landed heavily—armed troops by rope onto the deck of the ship. faced with overwhelming force, the stowaways are said to have surrendered almost immediately. this was a very efficient operation. it only took nine minutes from the word go to the stowaways being rounded up and identified. and, of course,...

To ta ke minutes it took four special forces to take control of the vessel? good morning, yes, essentially, as you saw, this was a helicopter assault with the two navy wildcat helicopters which would have come in first to look through their electrooptics devices what was going on. they would have provided a distraction while the two navy merlin helicopters came in closer and essentially the sbs troops roped down from those helicopters onto the deck. they would have quickly ascertained where the ...

Yesterday off the coast of the isle of wight. the ten of our stand—off ended when members of the special boat service went on board and detained several people. it is now docked at southampton harbour. that breaking news is that seven men have been arrested on suspicion of seizing or exercising control of a ship by use of threats or force. the government refuses to change its mind on free school meal vouchers over the holidays. the prime minister says theyre providing help through extra fundin...

Faced with overwhelming force, the stowaways are said to have surrendered almost immediately. this was a very efficient operation. it only took nine minutes from the word go to the stowaways being rounded up and identified. and, of course, this reflects the training that both the fleet air arm crews and the sbs — the special boat service — undertake all the time. none of the 22 crew of the andromeda were injured in the incident. the seven stowaways have been detained. andy moore, bbc news. f...

The first country in the west crushed by the pandemic is seeing a grim history repeating itself, and hopes its not too late to turn the tide. mark lowen, bbc news, rome. a military operation onboard a tanker in the english channel has ended with the arrest of seven people. its thought stowaways were causing problems on board the vessel, which had sailed from lagos in nigeria. the bbc‘s duncan kennedy has the latest. it really has been an extraordinary few hours ending with this special forces ...

What we do know is the ship comedy andromeda, sailed from nigeria some three weeks ago. it appears there we re three weeks ago. it appears there were a number of stowaways on board. crucially, we dont know what their motive is. it could be something as straightforward as seeking political asylu m straightforward as seeking political asylum in the uk or it could be something more sinister. but what is clear is at some stage, the crew became aware of these stowaways on board, felt to an extent thr...

Duncan, we have this request for military support, what else can you tell us? well, lots of developments all day long. let me take you through it chronologically, starting with when the ship arrived in the solent. that was about 9am this morning. we have been told by sources that the crew knew there we re sources that the crew knew there were some stowaways on board. dont know how they knew how many there we re know how they knew how many there were but there were some stowaways on board. the sh...

Whitehall saying the situation on the tanker is over. whether that is a peaceful resolution or whether the military of the special forces have been involved, we simply dont know. just to backtrack on the background to this, the andromeda had been en route from nigeria to southampton when this incident unfolded around about nine oclock this morning, about nine oclock this morning, about five miles off the coast of the isle of wight. the crew had known there were about seven stowaways on boa rd kn...