大象传媒

The number of people trying to enter the EU via Italy, after an illegal and dangerous boat voyage across the Mediterranean, is at an all-time high this summer. The risks and the costs of this journey are extremely high - and what you can afford to pay for a passage may turn out to be a matter of life and death. Alan Johnston, in Rome, reflects on eyewitness accounts of recent disasters at sea.

On the streets of Sao Paulo there is also danger all around. Katy Watson meets the people who sustain the booming trade in crack cocaine - both users and sellers - and also the state-funded health workers who are trying to beat it back.

(Photo: Firemen and policemen evacuate the bodies of migrants from a boat in the port of Pozzallo, Sicily, July 2014. Credit: Giovanni Isolino/AFP/Getty Images)