WATCH: Mark White details 'infuriating' footage of migrants being handed lifejackets by the French

and just how pivotal Germany is for channel smugglers

Mark, what's going on? Well, it is really important to this people smuggling phenomenon

key to the route that the smugglers use. I want to show you, first of all

what's been happening in the channel this morning. The first video that we can look at actually is on the beach at Graveline

And look at this, just probably 70-odd waiting to board yet. another boat at this beach near Dunkirk and they will board a taxi boat. So you can see them running

out into the English Channel and they are running out to catch up with that taxi boat that has just

come down from one of the local river tributaries. So they're just standing there in the water

As that boat approaches, they'll get further and closer to the boat. And a little bit later on

And in the video as well something that will infuriate many of our audience without a doubt is the French handing out more life jackets to these migrants on board Look at them That boat is absolutely full to overflowing It in no kind of safe condition to make that channel crossing

but it will do. It's in shallow water at the moment. There is no attempt by the French to push this boat back

even though we're told... So the French are there? The French are just watching. The French are there. There's the boat. Look at them

This is what the French are doing. They're handing life jackets. to the migrants that don't have them

They're not pushing the boat back onto the beach, even though they can

It's in shallow water. Now, the reason that Germany is so pivotal to this migrant story

is because the boats that are manufactured end up in Germany. Let's take a look at the next video, video number two

that shows you in sped-up mode an individual in Turkey who has just received his boat from a backstreet factory in China. It's being inflated there

while they check it to make sure that there are no leaks and that it is seaworthy Take a look at video number three now This is one of the boats that has been assembled there It got the backboard

for the motor to attach to. And that is ready now for transportation to Germany. And if we take a

Look at video number four. This is a process in Germany in cities like Essen in Germany

I think we're still looking for video number four. But you can see this, that boat assembled

They then get deflated, packed up, and then they're taken from Turkey across via the land borders to Germany

They're stored in warehouses, backstreet lockups, really, in Germany, in multiple cities there, before they make it to France, before they're then transported

Where have you got those videos from, Mark? From a contact who is constantly communicating with people smugglers

Some of these are open source. They put out on TikTok by the smugglers themselves as part of their advertising ploy as they try to entice more and more people to come And the reason that Germany is so important to this story

is it's not a criminal offence. It would be in this country and it would be in France

but it's not a criminal offence in Germany to be part of a people smuggling endeavour

So this is why Germany has finally moved to say it's going to change the law

to make it a criminal offence to be involved in people's smuggling operations

But that's not going to come into force until at least the end of this year

And we've been calling on them to do this for years. Can Starmer take some credit for that

Well, you know, Germany was urged to do this under the previous Conservative government

So, yes, the government pushing Germany to do it can take some credit

it, but Germany are being pushed into it, but very, very slowly. As I say, you know

he's agreeing to it today, but it's not going to come into effect until at least the end

of the year, when God knows how many migrants will have crossed the English Channel by that time