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Italy continues to feel the consequences of the European migrant crisis as it's there that many people leaving countries in North Africa - or Turkey - try to gain entry to the continent.

Many people are losing their lives as the numbers attempting the dangerous Mediterranean crossing increase - in some cases the lives lost are in the hundreds.

Newsday's James Copnall has been talking to newly arrived migrants in southern Italy.

David, a Sierra Leonean, and Happiness from Nigeria met in Algeria and are now a couple with a baby daughter planning to get married. He was previously in Tunisia where he could not eat or sleep and where he wondered how 鈥渃ould he live without freedom鈥�.

(Photo: Refugees on a big rubber boat in the middle of the sea that require help. Credit: Getty Images/Creative)