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Twenty-nineteen was another powerful year for world cinema, if not an entirely compelling one for American filmshence the fact that six of my entries for the past year were international movies. But its a masterpiece from one of the dominant voices of American independent cinema in the aughts that claims the No. 1 spot.

Ash is Purest White, the master Chinese director JiaZhangkes existential spin on the gangster epic, follows Qiao, the fiercelyfaithful girlfriend to Bin, a middling mobster. After serving five years inprison for firing a gun to protect Bin, Qiao must forge a new life, griftingfrom one mark to another while searching for Bin, whose allegiances haveshifted. Zhangkes direction and narrative preoccupations drift much like hisunorthodox heroine, following her on boat and train, and culminating in afascinating reversal of fortune. Doubling as a metaphor for Chinas owncomplicated growth over the 21st century, Ash is Purest White is a pristinejewel of movie with stylistic associations ranging from Antonioni to Scorsese.

Writer-director Trey Edward Shults stirring Waves is acombustible family drama of unusual enormity, and one that hits literally closeto home: It was filmed in Broward and Dade counties. When a shoulder injurythreatens to derail a star athletes plans for the future, it sets off a chainof tragic consequences presented with almost unbearable tension. A diptych of amovie, its second half, which follows his sister Emily through her firstbudding romance, is more contemplative, but no less profound. Set against thebackdrop of the brutal Darwinism of the college admissions process and thedouble standards society places on black Americans to excel, Waves is aguidebook for coping in the 21st century. Its emotionally draining, and worthevery minute.

This German import marries the harrowing solitude of asurvivalist drama with headline-ripped social commentary. During a characterssolo voyage to lush Ascension Island, she faces a brutal stormone renderedwith a camera that yaws from side to side along with her yacht, and anunnerving sound design that places us among the creaking infrastructure of theboat and the apocalyptic torrents of Mother Nature. But the movies darkestturn arrives later, when she happens upon a wrecked fishing trawler ofabandoned passengers, of whose plight the Coast Guard seems curiously unmoved.Examining the human capacity to turn a blind eye to the suffering of others, itsmoral heft reverberates like an unanswered SOS call.

In director Christian Petzolds slippery adaptation of AnnaSegherss World War II-era novel, he transforms her story about an unnamedFrench narrator fleeing the German invasion into a temporal jumble ofhistorical rhymes and repeats. It could be 1944, 1984 or 2014, and maybe itsall three of these. Petzold wants us to feel unmoored; this is a story, afterall, about dislocation as a permanent state. Transitis propelledby enough bureaucratic cul-de-sacs and absurdist ironies that its as if aKafka story was filmed in the slick style of late 1960s Hitchcock, to saynothing of the looming influence of Samuel Beckett. Petzolds unspecifieddystopia has plenty to say about the Nazi regime, about third-worlddictatorships, about todays unfolding migrant crisis, all of them connected bya universal condition ofstuckness.

Quentin Tarantinos black comedy, set against the backdrop of the Manson Family/Sharon Tate murder 50 years ago, is a chronicle of inside-Hollywood metafiction. Its a layered love letter to the films Tarantino himself famously binged while working the register at Video Archives in Los Angeles in his 20s, and is thus a cinephiles heaven. Tarantinos trademark leisurely pacinghis propensity to let scenes play out past other filmmakers expiration timesworks to the movies loosely structured favor. There is very little plot to speak of but a great deal of insightful observations, witty asides, and generous dips into kidney-shaped pools of Hollywood nostalgia. Yet the movies revisionist history, boisterous humor and self-referentiality skate over its blunt assessment of a studio system in its death spasms and a generation losing its innocence.

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Celine Sciammas historical romance is a defiant erasure ofthe male gaze, a domineering fixture and a theoretical bugaboo since the dawnof cinema. The story is simple enough: A painter, Marianne, travels to a remoteisland in Brittany to paint a commissioned portrait of the aristocraticHeloise, an unwilling subject who is soon to be shipped off to Milan in anarranged marriage. The women end up falling in love, which is, of course,forbidden. What could have been the stuff of Merchant-Ivory prestige cinemainstead borrows its syntax from rigorous filmmakers such as Ophuls, and Powelland Pressburger, co-opting their rigorous melodrama as a shot across the bow topatriarchies everywhere. Distinctions between artist and model, mistress andservant, and form and content burn away in the movies crackling fireplace,while its symbolic send-off is at once subversive and heartbreaking.

Greta Gerwigs masterly follow-up to Lady Bird extends her affinities for young women who chafe againstsocietys strictures. She shuffles the source material into an ambitiousbifurcated narrative that oscillates between the characters young adulthood,after three of the sisters have left the March family home, and a formativeperiod seven years earlier, when they all lived together as the Civil War woundto its bloody close. This approach allows past and present to rhyme in waysthat are both richly ironic and devastating, so that its themes ofproto-feminism, gender roles, sacrifice and patriotism can ripple across thecanvas like leitmotifs. Though in some ways her movie is a modernist, playfuladaptation, she is in the best way a reverential classicist, with countlessimages that evoke John Ford. Every shot resembles the sort of painting youwould like to step into.

Pedro Almodvars tender memory filmabout a reclusive,physically hurting filmmaker whose latest festival invitation prompts his past tolap against his present like waves on a beachfrontis unlike anything yet made from this naughty provocateur ofcandy-colored melodrama. Yet as a remembrance of things past and a lucidreckoning with the directors own weaknesses and misgivings,Pain andGloryis a pinnacle of autofiction, in many ways representingeverything his oeuvre has been building toward. He saves the films mostself-reflexive masterstroke for the marvelous final sequencean act of bravuramagic that, once you unpeel its layers, speaks to the curative properties offilmmaking.

WithParasite, the South Korean mad genius Boon Joon-ho has crafted a satire so funny, so savage and so necessary in our present moment of global unrest and anxiety that it makes Luis Bunuels bourgeois vivisections look almost tame. Think pieces will be written about popular cultures response to this young centurys grift, class envy and income inequality; many will lead withParasite. But its his refusal to demonize or caricature either of the movies warring families that renders the films pathos so powerful.Parasitehas a great deal to say about a range of other topics, toolike globalization American cultural appropriationbut its the moments of casual malice, whether delivered from the bubble of privilege, in one familys case, or by the need to feel superior toanyoneelse, in the others case, that condemn both sides.

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The title is seemingly cynical, as no movie has betterexplored the brutality and absurdity of the soulless divorce industrythanMarriage Story. Yet writer-director Noah Baumbach, whosescreenplay drew partly from his own divorce from Jennifer Jason Leigh, takesthe sober, cosmic view of marriages inextricable hold on people even whendocuments, and feelings, and life itself suggest otherwise. Marriage Storyischock full of lived-in insights that perhaps only a middle-aged person couldreliably write. And without much of a plot to propel the scenes forward, themovie assumes its power from its accretion of accurate details, its micro setpieces, its deadpan wit even in times of pain and sorrow. All of which is tosay thatMarriage Storyisdespite its achieved sublimity, thetears it will doubtlessly induce, and its characters (literal, in one case)open woundsan unlikely comedy.

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More than 160 migrants rescued from the Libyan coast have disembarked in Italy on the same day the EU urged warring sides in the North African country to cease fighting.

The NGO SOS Mediterranee on Tuesday said the group of migrants, which included 50 minors and five pregnant women, had been found during two rescue operations in international waters off the coast of Libya on Friday December 20.

The first operation rescued 112 people from a rubber dinghy that had deflated, the group said.

A second operation, conducted hours later, saved 50 more migrants from a wooden boat struggling in dangerous weather conditions shortly before midnight.

The migrants disembarked at the southern port of Taranto on Monday after permission was given by the Italian authorities.

So far in 2019 almost 100,000 migrants have arrived by sea to Italy, Greece, Spain, Cyprus and Malta, according the UNs refugee agency. Some 1,277 are dead or missing.

While the figures are a far cry from 2015, when over a million people made the voyage by sea, the ratio of deaths to arrivals has risen sharply.

Migrants arriving in Europe have said they risked the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean during the winter months to escape horrific conditions in Libya.

Violent clashes, which began earlier this year between forces loyal to Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar and the UN-backed government in the Libyan capital, Tripoli have spilled over to areas where migrant centres are located.

Last week, Pope Francis said the detention centres in Libya were places of torture and despicable slavery.

The EUs foreign policy arm called on the two sides to cease military action and resume political dialogue.

"There is no military solution to the crisis in Libya," a spokesperson for the European External Action Service said on Monday.

"The only way to settle it must be a political one, negotiated on the basis of the proposals recently put forward by the United Nations."

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In Vathy, in the overcrowded migrant camp on the Greek island of Samos, news agencies are reporting that riots have broken out. Fires were started and the police were met with stones and protests when they arrived to break up the unrest.

Accordingto the German press agency dpa, local media reported that the Greek police setoff tear gas to try and calm the protests at the Greek island camp of Vathy onThursday morning.

Migrantsare reported to have started fires and thrown stones at the police in protest at the overcrowded conditions in the camp.Schools in a 600-meter radius from the camp were reportedly evacuated becauseof the smoke from the fires.

Dpa saysthat the protests are thought to have come this time from the African community in the camp who have beendemanding for days that they be transferred to the Greek mainland.

Similar clashes in October

InfoMigrants reported that similar clashes broke outin the same camp in October2019. At that point the trouble stemmed from a mass brawl between Afghan andSyrian residents, which forced police to use tear gas to disperse the crowd.

At thattime, the medical charity, Doctors without Borders (MSF) said that almost halfof the camps inhabitants were women and children. In November, the International Presidentof MSF Christos Christou tweeted after visiting Samos that he had seen a protractedstate of human tragedy.

Numbers keep increasing

Accordingto the UNHCRs latest data, more than 71,000 migrants have arrived in Greecethis year alone. Although the Greek government has been making efforts totransfer people from overcrowded accommodation on the islands to the Greekmainland, there are still some 40,500 refugees and migrants residing on theAegean islands. The majority of that population is from Afghanistan (around45%), Syria (20%) and the Democratic Republic of Congo (6%).

Theauthorities have been transferring around 1,000 people every week to themainland but more people continue to arrive. In the week 9-15 December almost2,000 people arrived with a little more than 1,000 on Lesbos and 208 on theisland of Samos.

On December10, MSF Germany posted pictures of a makeshift room in the Vathy camp. They tweeted in German: This is a bathroom.Difficult to believe dont you think? What is even more difficult to believe isthat this bathroom is where three small children have to shower, and thatthis bathroom is in Europe. This is the sad reality of life for around 2,500 childrenliving in the Vathy camp on Samos.

Tense situation

Samosmayor Georgios Stantzos has been speaking out for months about securityproblems related to the overcrowding in the camps, according to the Germanweekly newspaper Die Zeit. On December 18, an English language local websiteGreekReporter posted a video from Samos24.grin which Stantzos was filmed inthe town square chasing migrants and shouting Go the F**k Away. GreekReporter added that his intervention followed a police operation to dispersea demonstration on the square.

The mayorreportedly told Greek Reporter that he regretted using foul language but saidthat it was a knee-jerk response to an incident which could have turned veryviolent. It was a human response to a very tense situation. The mayor addedthat the migrants had been blocked from occupying the square and that on theway to their demonstration they had vandalized at least five cars.

Stantzossaid that his reactions and those of his fellow islanders were not racist andthat he was just against the few migrants who were intent on creating trouble.Stantzos told Greek reporter that the overcrowding had become a human rightsproblem [and] a law and order issue as severe delinquency problems arise.

ManosLogothetis, government commissioner for migration in Greece told the GermanFunke media group on Wednesday: The crisis is happening now, and it is serious.

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What a year its been for Italy, from the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinicis death to the collapse of the government.

As a new year and decade approaches, lets take a look at the biggest news to come out of Italy in 2019.

Two weeks into January, Italian authorities confirmed that fugitive left-wing militant and convicted murderer Cesare Battisti had been captured in Bolivia after almost three decades on the run.

Battisti (pictured below),who had been sentenced to life in prison for four murders in the 1970s, was arrested on January 14 after an international police squad tracked him tothe Bolivian city of Santa Cruz de La Sierra.

He had been living in Brazil for years, until the nations outgoing president signed a decree ordering his extradition.

Two months after he was brought back to Italy, Battisti confessed to four murders during the 1970s, after decades of denying any involvement in the homicides.

He confessed to killing a policeman and a prison guard, to taking part in the murder of a butcher and to helping plan the killing of a jeweller who died in a shootout which left his 14-year-old son in a wheelchair.

As people settled in to 2019, Italys migrant crisis became an even more pressing issue following the governments decision to block Italian ports to charity rescue ships.

On January 9, a weeks-long standoff came to an end when 49 migrants stranded at sea for weeks aboard two rescue ships arrived in Malta after eight EU member states, including Italy, agreed to take them in.

TheSea-Watch 3 had rescued 32 people from an unsafe boat off the coast of Libya on December 22, while another German charity, Sea-Eye, had rescued 17 others on December 29.

Both ships had been floating in Maltese watersfor weeks after all EU countries refused to offer them a safe port to dock.

This was the first standoff of the year, but certainly not the last.

On January 30, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced that 47 migrants stranded aboard a rescue boat operated by German NGO Sea-Watch could finally disembark after Italy and six other countries had agreed to take them in.

The vessel had been stranded in Sicilian waters for over a week after Italy and other European nations had refused to let it dock.

Sea-Watchhad earlier filed an urgent case at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against Italy for refusing to allow its ship to dock and the mainly sub-Saharan migrants, including 15 minors, to disembark.

Italys Interior Minister Matteo Salvini was later placed under investigation for alleged false imprisonment after refusing to allow the migrants to disembark.

In February, more than 10 million viewers tuned in to Italian state broadcaster Rai for theopening night of the Sanremo Music Festival.

Famous Italian singer Andrea Bocelli wowed crowds on the night, performing an evocative duet with his son Matteo.

Following five exciting evenings of performances, Mahmood (pictured below)was crowned the winner of the 69th edition of the festival, for his song Soldi (Money).

Born to an Egyptian father and Sardinian mother, Mahmood became a symbol of multiculturalism at a time when the nation was grappling with the anti-immigrant rhetoric of far-right League leader Matteo Salvini.

In Rome, flights were suspended and a terminal was evacuated at Ciampino airport on February 7, when three World War II bombs were discovered during construction work.

The bombs weighed a combined 150 kilograms, including around 75 kilograms of gunpowder.

Less than two weeks later, flights from Ciampino airport were delayed after the departures area was closed due to a fire in the terminal basement.

While the blaze was reportedly put out in less than a minute, it caused crowds and flight cancellations for most of the day.

In February, Pope Francis held alandmark summit on sexual abuse and paedophilia within the Church, calling for an all-out battle against the widespread scandal.

Over four days, 114 senior bishops listened to speeches about the outrage of the people and heard the horror stories of victims.

On the first day of the summit,Pope Francis called for concrete measuresto tackle clerical sexual abuse and paedophilia.

If in the Church there should emerge even a single case of abuse which already in itself represents an atrocity that case will be faced with the utmost seriousness, he said.

Just days before the summit, Pope Francis had defrocked a former archbishop and cardinal over sexual abuse accusations in a first for the Roman Catholic Church.

The Vatican banned AmericanTheodore McCarrick (pictured below)from practising as a priest after he was found guilty in January of sexually abusing a teenager 50 years ago.

He was the first ever cardinal to be defrocked for sexual abuse.

Just this week, the Pope made even more progress, announcing sweeping changes to the way the Roman Catholic Church deals with cases of sexual abuse of children, abolishing the rule of pontifical secrecy that previously covered them.

This is an epochal decision, Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, the Vaticans most experienced sexual abuse investigator, told Vatican Radio.

The lifting of pontifical secrecy in sexual abuse investigations was a key demand by church leaders, including Scicluna and the German cardinal Reinhard Marx, at the summit held in February.

March began with the sad news that crews were searching for a missing Italian climber and his British climbing partner stuck on a treacherous peak known as Killer Mountain.

Daniele Nardi (pictured below) and Tom Ballard were attempting the 8126-metre climb in Pakistans Himalayas, one of the hardest mountaineering feats in the world, when they went missing.

The bodies of the two climbers were found almost two weeks after the pair went missing.

The nation was rocked again when eight Italians and several British and Irish UN employees based in Rome were among those killed in the tragic Ethiopian Airlines disaster on March 10.

Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crashed six minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa, killing all 157 passengers and eight crew on board.

Italy was wrapped up in another international tragedy in March: the Christchurch mosque massacre.

The weapons and ammunition used in the mass shooting of 50 Muslims in the New Zealand city were emblazoned with the names of several violent white supremacists, including Italian mass shooter Luca Traini.

Traini is an Italian neo-Nazi sympathiser who injured six African migrants in a series of racially-motivated drive-by shootings in Macerata on February 3, 2017.

Meanwhile back home, Italians received the news that a bus driver had abducted 51 children and their chaperones outside Milan, ordering the childrens hands to be bound and threatening to kill all those on board before setting fire to the vehicle.

Twelve children and one adult were taken to hospital for low-level smoke inhalation and the hijacker himself was treated for burns.

Ousseynou Sy, the driver who carried out thehijackingto protest againstmigrant deaths at sea, claimed he acted after hearing the voices of children dying in the Mediterranean.

The interior ministry later announced it would speed up granting citizenship to a quick-thinking student who hid and called authorities when the bus was hijacked.

The Carabinieri police of Sandonato Milanese identified the student as 13-year-old Ramy Shehata (pictured below).

Ramy, who has been hailed a hero by classmates and authorities, was born in Italy but is not an Italian citizen.

Speaking of astounding teens, March 15 saw thousands of Italian students walk out of school as part of a global strike to demand action on climate change by world leaders.

The initiative was spearheaded by Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg, who just this month was name Time magazines Person of the Year.

Thunberg later visited Italy to make her message loud and clear.

We children are not sacrificing our education and our childhood for the adults and politicians to tell us what they consider is politically possible in the society they have created, the 16-year-old told a crowd of around 25,000 demonstrators in Rome in April.

Teenage pedal power was used to charge the stage where Thunberg gave her speech.

Around 128 bicycles were rigged up to a dynamo and generator in Piazza del Popolo.

During her visit, Thunberg also met with the Pope, who encouraged her to carry on with her mission.

April 7 marked 10 years since LAquila was struck by an earthquake which killed 309 people, left at least 80,000 homeless and devastated around 56 villages in the area.

The bells of Santa Maria del Suffragio church in the citys historic centre chimed 309 times at 3:32 am on the day the time the tremor hit a decade ago in memory of the dead.

Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte were among those who joined local residents for a candlelit commemoration in the towns central Piazza Duomo.

The wound of a local community is a wound of the national community, Conte said.

We have a duty not to forget, but above all we have a duty to be constantly striving to relaunch this territory.

A few days later, the Stefano Cucchi murder case, which had gripped the country for a decade, had a major breakthrough when a police officer gave an eyewitness account of the events leading up to Cucchis death in 2009.

Francesco Tedesco, one of three military police officers charged with Cucchis murder, told a courtroom in Romethat his colleagueshad kicked and punched the 31-year-old (pictured below) in the face repeatedly, causing his death.

Tedesco also alleged he had been threatened by officials who told him to stay silent and conceal his report about the incident.

In November, Carabinieri officers Alessio di Bernardo and Raffaele dAlessandro were both found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of 31-year-old Cucchi and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Speaking after the ruling, Cucchis sister Ilaria told local media: Stefano was killed. We knew that and weve been repeating it for 10 years. Now perhaps my brother can rest in peace.

It was an eventful year for Italian football, with Juventus winning a record-extending eighth straight Italian Serie A title with a 2-1 win over Fiorentina.

Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo was crowned this years best player in Italys Serie A competition at an awards ceremony in Milan this month.

Ronaldoscored 26 goals in his debut season inItalyand led Juventus towards another domestic title.

But it wasnt all good news.

Italian football saw a surge in racist incidents at matches this season, with Inter Milan strikerRomelu Lukakuhaving been the victim of monkey chants in Cagliari and Brescia starMario Balotelli threatening to walk off the pitch following abuse in Verona.

In September, Fiorentinas Braziliandefender Dalbert Henrique asked the referee to halt play when he was abused byfans.

In October, Roma issued an apology after its supporters racially abused Sampdorias English midfielder Ronaldo Vieira.

Meanwhile, Romas city rivals Lazio received a partial stadium ban from UEFA after racist chanting during a game with French outfit Rennes.

All 20 of Italys Serie A clubs on November 29 signed a joint open letter to fans condemning racism in stadiums.

Just days after the letter was signed, Italian sports daily Corriere dello Sport was accused of fuelling racism and crossing the line of acceptability with the front-page headline Black Friday.

May 2 marked the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vincis death.

Italian President Sergio Mattarella and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron came together to commemorate the historic event.

Many discoveries were made public during the year to mark the anniversary, including the DNA testing of a hair believed to be Leonardos and the proof the genius was ambidextrous.

On the fashion front, Prada announced in May that it would remove animal fur from its collections starting from their 2020 Spring/Summer Womens collections, becoming the latest brand to join the fur-free alliance.

June had an explosive start, when Mount Etna erupted on the first weekend of the month, spitting molten lava high into the sky and putting on a show for locals and tourists on the southern Italian island.

While no one was injured on that occasion, a hiker was killed the following month when Stromboli erupted(pictured below).

It was like being in hell because of the rain of fire coming from the sky, Italian news agencies quoted local priest Giovanni Longo as saying.

It was a year of wild weather for Italy, from a record-breaking heatwave in June, to severe storms in November which left Venice and many other parts of Italy under water.

One of the biggest stories to come out of Italy rocked the nation in July, when police officer Mario Cerciello Rega (pictured below) was stabbed to death on a street in Rome.

Hundreds of people attended Cerciello Regas funeral, including then deputy prime ministers, Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio.

Two Americans, Gabriel Natale Hjorth, 18, and Finnegan Elder, 19, were charged with aggravated homicide and attempted extortion following the murder in Romes upmarket Prati neighbourhood.

Elder later confessed to stabbing Cerciello Rega with a US Marine partially-serrated, close-quarters combat knife, police said, as they gave a detailed account of what happened on the night of the attack.

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TEN suspected migrants including a pregnant woman and two children have been found in the back of a lorry today.

Cops arrested two people after swooping on the truck at a Shell garage on the westbound A14 near Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire just after 2pm this afternoon.

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None of the stowaways are thought to have been seriously injured and is not known what nationality they are.

One person was arrested on suspicion of assisting unlawful immigration and the other for suspected firearms offences.

It comes a month after 39 migrants were found dead in the back of a refrigerated lorry trailer in Grays, Essex.

Tina Rooney, 19, who filmed the moment the people were discovered, said around 20 cops surrounded the lorry.

Police officers opened the rear doors and found a man in a blue shirt.

More people emerged from inside the unmarked lorry, with a young child helped down from the lorry.

Tina said: "There were ten men, a baby, a young child and a woman.

"There were at least 15 people in the back.

There was steam coming out of the lorry when police opened it

"We stopped at services and were heading home when we saw the police and they looked panicked.

"There was steam coming out of the lorry when police opened it.

"There was at least 20 police officers, four vans and two cars."

Cambridgeshire Police said they were called after reports of concerns for ten people travelling in the lorry

A police spokesman said: "Officers stopped the vehicle at the Shell garage in Godmanchester.

"Ambulance attended and those within the lorry have been taken to hospital, but no one is thought to be seriously injured."

Immigration services have been notified as police inquiries continue.

East England Ambulance said three ambulances, a rapid response vehicle and three ambulance officer vehicles raced to the scene.

An East England Ambulance spokesman said: "Ten people including a pregnant woman and two children have been assessed.

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"None have required hospital transport, although crews remain on the scene."

Yesterday, a lorry driver accused over the deaths of 39 migrants found in his trailer pleaded guilty to plotting to assist illegal immigration.

Maurice 'Mo' Robinson, 25, appeared in court as Essex Police arrested a seventh suspect in connection with the deaths of the men, women and children, who were found dead in a refrigerated trailer at an industrial estate in Grays last month.

The deaths of the 39 Vietnamese nationals found dead inside the refrigerated container, sparked one of Britain's biggest murder investigations ever.

This week, Sun Online showed the shocking moment suspected migrants staggered out from the back of another lorry, struggling to breathe.

The men can be seen falling to their knees as they are rescued on the side of the M25 in Essex.

Heartless human traffickers are also cashing in on migrants' dreams of a new life in Britain - charging tens of thousands of pounds to smuggle them over the border.

The disturbing footage is just the latest to lay bare the migrant crisis that sees desperate men and women risk their lives to reach the UK.

Witness Bill told The Sun Online: "I had pulled into look at my car and I saw some commotion.

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"I looked up and there were people standing behind the lorry and the police came flying up.

"It looked like they were struggling to breathe, there's no ventilation in the trucks."

Earlier this month, Essex police were again put on high alert as they were called to reports of a lorry near Waltham Abbey, filled with ten migrants.

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