within the tory party. not a single migrant has been sent to rwanda, and yet we have already spent £240 million. a deal that tees up the biggest shake up in world golf jon rahm joins the saudi sponsored liv golf for a reported $300 million. good evening. we start in new york, where the un security council has been debating through the afternoon the situation in gaza. they are due to vote shortly on a draft resolution proposed by the united arab emirates demanding an immediate ceasefire. it will fail because the united states will object. that is despite the pleas of the secretary general antonio guterres, who called on the 15 member council to use all its influence to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe . we start tonight with this report form our international editor jeremy bowen. and a warning you may find the footage distressing. gaza is on the brink of a full blown collapse, says the un. almost 2 million people have been driven from their homes by israeli forces. c
britain and rwanda have signed a new treaty aimed at getting the uk government s flagship asylum policy operational, following a series of legal challenges. the policy first announced in april 2022 would see some asylum seekers sent to rwanda to claim asylum there. but it hit legal setbacks and was blocked in its previous form by the uk supreme court. after signing the agreement during a visit to kigali, the home secretary james cleverly said he believed the new treaty addressed all the concerns raised by the supreme court. he said he can t see any credible reason to question rwanda s human rights record, and hopes the first migrant flights will go there in spring 202a. £140 million has already been paid by the uk to rwanda for the implementation of the policy. fundamentally the supreme court raised two issues. one was about the capacity of the rwandan judicial system. we have been working on that for over a year. we started to address that at the time of the appeal co
a huge road block today as the supreme court ruled the government s flagship plan to send asylum seekers to rwanda was unlawful. but the prime minister says he will push ahead and find other ways to push the policy through and says he s prepared to change uk law to do so. also on the programme tonight, the latest from gaza, where israeli forces have said they have found weapons after searching the largest hospital in the strip. we ll speak to one of benjamin netanyahu s senior advisors. we will be live in san francisco where us presidentjoe biden is meeting his chinese counterpart, leader xi jinping for the first time in a year, for talks over military conflicts, drug trafficking, artificial intelligence and trade. we will have more on all of that shortly. but first lets let s go to another live and breaking story we are following tonight. five of labour s shadow ministers look set to leave sir keir starmer s top team in a rebellion over his refusal to back a ceasefire