Kurdish immigrants prepare for court

More than nine-hundred Kurdish migrants who landed in the south of France at the weekend have completed formalities for seeking asylum in the country.

They've been interviewed by officials at the military camp near the town of Frejus, where they've been housed since coming ashore from a ship that had been abandoned by its crew.

On Wednesday, they'll be taken to the town of Draguignan, where ten court rooms and twenty magistrates have been set aside to decide their future.

The French government has said that the migrants will not be deported and has already begun arranging temporary housing for them.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service