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The Today programme has been looking at the debate about how to handle the mass movement of people around the world.

Sicily is the region where the majority of African migrants to Italy arrive. Migrants make the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean in crowded boats that often sink or capsize.

Search and rescue ships crewed by volunteers make it their mission to save the lives of migrants who make the crossing looking for new lives.

However the Italian government's approach to the boats has got much tougher since the election of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

Today’s Nick Robinson spoke to Enrico Trantino, the Mayor of Catania – the port city of Catania in Sicily, where many migrants to Italy first land – and Laurence Hart, Director for Italy at the UN’s International Organisation for Migration. First Nick reports from the streets of Catania.

(Image, Enrico Trantino, Mayor of Catania, Credit, 91Èȱ¬)