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Welcome to the programme. We start with Breaking News from the past half hour and three men have been arrested after the deaths of five people including a seven Year Old Girl who were attempting to cross the English Channel from france on tuesday. They have been detained on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration and illegal entry. You will remember yesterday we saw those dramatic pictures that were filmed by a bbc film crew in france of that boat leaving the coast full of that boat leavin...

Lets return to the issue of small boats crossing the channel from france to england and yesterday was another grim milestone as five people died trying to get across hours after the British Parliament passed legislation designed to deter such journeys. French Officials Say 112 people were on board the overcrowded vessel. A new law in britain aims to send people arriving on small boats to rwanda to have their asylum claims processed. The deaths in the channel are not an isolated incident. Yesterd...

Hello, im in nicky schiller, welcome to the programme. We start this hour with reaction to the news that us lawmakers in the senate have approved a 95 billion aid package for ukraine, israel and taiwan. President biden says he will sign the bill later today and that more arms and equipment will be sent to ukraine within a week. The overwhelming vote in favour of the deal marks the end of six months of deadlock amongst us politicians. The measures approve around 61 billion in long awaited aid for...

Theres a real battle going on on the beach here. Must be more than 100 migrants trying to get to the water. Theyre letting off firecrackers to try and keep the police away from them, but the police are moving in. Theyre trying to stop them from getting to the water. Lets go ahead and see what we can see. You can see the smugglers here. Some of them have sticks. Theyre trying to protect the migrants as they head towards the sea. We have more footage of that beach at the time. Lets take a look at ...

Our integrated review anticipated this and talked about the increasing competition from state based threats and identified these things, but as i said, what is new is the pace and intensity of where we arent seeing these threats emerge, and i commend to everyone the Chatham House speech which talked about this as well where we are seeing these threats. Asjens stoltenberg highlighted, the interconnectedness when you have state supporting each other and working together, that is what we have to re...

Israels military has rejected accusations that its forces buried the bodies of palestinians at a medical complex in gaza. More than 200 bodies were found under the courtyard at the hospital in khan younis. The city of baltimore is taking legal action against the operators of the Container Ship which hit and destroyed one of its main bridges last month. The lawsuit says the Container Ship, the dali, was clearly unseaworthy, and had an incompetent crew. The ships owners have already asked a court ...

From attempting such crossings. Well have more about the bill shortly, first lets go to wimereux near calais our correspondent tom symonds is there yes, jane. You can see the weather is very calm today. The sea is flat, there is plenty of visibility in the skies are relatively clear. It is perfect whether, as People Smugglers and migrants would see it, for crossing the channel to get to the uk, and that is what has been happening, several launches of boats from beaches. This is normally uncovere...

Good evening. The go ahead has been given to develop the uks largest untapped Oil And Gas Field in the north sea at rosebank. Its expected to produce the equivalent of 300 Million Barrels of oil during its lifetime. The companies behind it, and the government, say it will create Hundreds Ofjobs and raise billions of pounds. But environmental campaigners are furious, calling the decision reckless and inconsistent with the uks 2050 net zero target. The oilfield is here, 80 miles west of the shetla...

And on newsnight at 10 30, well go deeper behind the headlines and speak live with some key players on todays big stories. Plus, a first look at tomorrows front pages. Good evening. There are warnings tonight of a generation of children, being permanently affected by past covid lockdowns, the last of which ended more than two years ago. Who can forget that overnight, schools shut their doors while thousands of children were kept at Home Learning online . But now its clear, growing numbers of you...

I will come back to you. Lets go to rwanda, our correspondent is there for us and we have had several people asking that question, is rwanda a safe country . I would say that depends on who you are asking and what exactly you mean. It is safe in terms of crime, the statistics show it has a very high safe index, high on the indices of crime safety for crime and that is something that the government often talks about, we are the safest country in the world. I think that is not so far from the trut...