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Business execute ryan patel joining us live from los angeles. good to have you with us. this is a tough day for thomas cook. its employees and the 600,000 travelers stranded across the globe and we just heard there only about 150,000 or so of those 600,000 have this repatriation program in place at this stage and even that on the website is very confusing. how are they ever going to get all of those people back home? >> well, the way that was explained its complete chaos right now. i mean theyre...

Good to have you with us. 600,000 travelers worlden wide are stranded after one thomas cook, one of the largest tour operators collapsed. all of its bookings have been canceled and the uk is launching what is being dubbed the largest peacetime repatriation to bring home the companys british customers and maybe some others. cnn spoke to a uk aviation official about this a short time ago. >> in terms of what were after we have launched a repatriation program and have outbound 150,000 passengers in...

Stranded abroad and responsible for getting home out of their own wallets. the other thing that is a part of this repatriation program is that it does not apply to folks who have only booked a vacation that only includes hotels so the repatriation basically getting your flight back home to the uk only applies to you if you have booked a vacation that includes air travel, unfortunately if you are a thomas cook traveler who has only booked a hotel you will be responsible for that hotel bill. the c...

A fierce critic of president putin in russia accuses him of organizing illegal demonstrations while in detention. now today saw a chaotic start to bangladeshs controversial repatriation program for a hinge of refugees one hundred fifty ranger were meant to return to me and more nobody turned up instead there were angry protests at the border hundreds of thousands of muslims currently live in sprawling camps around the bangladeshi city of coxs bazar the exodus began last august following the mili...

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Months knew it was facing a challenge in hitting the number of -- hitting a record number of deportations. there had been a memo from february that said that they were gonna be behind the years goal. they had to try some other things to reach that number. ice deported a record number of criminal aliens in 2010. but, that wasnt gonna get them necessarily to the goal. so, one of the things that they did was, extended repatriation program. where they send mexican nationals caught in the desert duri...