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The first country in the west crushed by the pandemic is seeing a grim history repeating itself, and hopes it's 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. it's 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 raid on a tanker in the solent behind me her...

They detained seven individuals, and we're 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. we're 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, that operation was planned and eventually executed this evening. it's not clear what happened with...

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 it's 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, this reflects the training that both the fleet air arm crews and the sbs — the special boat serv...

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 stowaways were, isolated them and arrested them. simple as that, job done? that's how you want it to...

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 they're providing help through extra funding to local authorities. the welsh government apologises over misinterpretation of its covid rules â...