El Niño, mortgage costs, and missing migrant boats

Basia Cummings is in the editor’s chair. She’s joined by Cat Neilan, Claudia Williams and Stephen Armstrong who pitch rising mortgage rates, migrant boats missing in the Atlantic and catastrophic weather in the US.

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The producer was Rebecca Moore and the executive producer was Lewis Vickers. 

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