good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. a bbc investigation has found that albanian drug gangs are offering to pay for migrants to cross the english channel, if they are prepared to work in the uk drugs industry when they arrive. gangs are using the migrant camps of northern france as a recruitment ground. there s been a sharp rise in the number of albanians crossing the channel in small boats this year. they now account for around a third of the almost 40,000 people who have landed on england s beaches this year. lucy williamson reports. for each boat, each migrant, there can be many smugglers albanian fixers, uk guarantors, kurdish criminal gangs. the journey starts in towns like laknas, now marked by absence. the shuttered houses and empty streets signs of an exodus this year. most were drawn by uk wages ten times higher than here. and each departure makes business in laknas even harder. as the price of crossing to the uk has dropped the suburbs around tirana ar
tonight at ten. the rise in albanians crossing the channel in small boats, lured by higher wages and gangs recruiting them for the drugs trade. the numbers have gone up sharply this year we report from albania on what s behind it. locals in this neighbourhood say 70% of the community has already left, and many of those living here now are thinking ofjoining them. also on the programme tonight. staff at twitter find out if they ve been sacked, as the firm s new owner, elon musk, drastically cuts costs. a series of rail strikes due to start tomorrow has been suspended, but the late notice means services tomorrow will be extremely limited. a major shift in money for the arts. the english national opera will move out of london, as blackpool illuminations wins funding for the first time. and the facial recognition technology that s helping to identify photos of holocaust victims and its survivors. on bbc london, the growing numbers of child trafficking victims disappearing from
will be needed. i don t think i have ever experienced weather like that here before. it feels like we re on different continent. over here this city gets over certain temperature and it has been brutal. a british man has reportedly died, believed to be volunteering in ukraine he was taken prisoner along with another man back in april. coming up we will be talking to ukrainian grain, with the mp from edessa who represents constituents in a port city by the black sea. hello wherever you are in the uk or if you are watching on public service broadcast then united states or anywhere else in the world thank you forjoining us it is a pleasure to have your company. we begin this hourin to have your company. we begin this hour in the uk with the five remaining candidates in the conservative party taking part in a live debate before the vote next week. then it ll be up to conservative party members to decide the new leader and prime minister. prime minister, here is what some of the c