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conservatives voice their opposition to his new plan to send asylum seekers to rwanda. it follows the resignation of immigration minister robertjenrick. he says the new law would still allow people arriving in small boats to challenge their deportation at the european court of human rights. our political correspondent damian grammaticus reports. its nice to see you, have a good evening. why did you resign, sir? the answer is simple. nice to see you all, thanks very much. and it makes t...

letter so we can see there, it is with great sadness i have written to the prime minister to tender my resignation as minister for immigration. i cannot continue in my position when i have such strong disagreements with the direction of the governments policy on immigration. so this letter coming in injust the immigration. so this letter coming in in just the last few minutes. going to take a look at the first couple of sentences. he says, dear prime minister, it is with great sadness ...

warns the humanitarian operation is about to collapse. we will get reaction tonight from the former israeli prime minister ehud olmert. also tonight — a growing rift in the conservative party , the uk immigration minister, robertjenrick, has resigned, as the government prepares new laws to bolster its rwanda asylum policy. a stressful night for the current prime minister — a stressful day for a former one. borisjohnson spent the day at the covid inquiry. the former prime minister h...

live. we start in the uk, where borisjohnson has apologised for the "pain, loss and suffering" during the covid pandemic, saying he takes personal responsibility for mistakes that were made. mrjohnson, who was prime minister throughout that period, has been giving evidence to the covid inquiry. during questioning, he said government ministers did the best they could in very difficult circumstances, but admitted they could have done better. so many people suffered, so many people lost t...

on that for over a year. we started to address that at the time of the appeal court judgment. the rwandans have been very, very good partners. weve put both processes and structures in place which give us the reassurance of the integrity, the impartiality and professionalism of the rwandan judicial, judicial system, of the rwandan judicial system, and also about non—refoulement. and that is basically a technical term that says that rwanda will not deport people who have been sent her...

and criticism about his leadership? good evening. the bbc has been hearing evidence that women in israel were sexually assaulted, raped and mutilated by hamas — designated a terrorist organisation by the uk — during the attacks on october 7th. israeli investigators say they are trawling through 60,000 hours of footage, and have compiled more than a thousand testimonies from witnesses and those who handled the bodies of victims after the attack. 0ur middle east correspondent, lucy w...

as part of the 50 nation coalition that president biden has built or whether congress will ignore the lessons weve learned from history and let putin prevail. it is that simple. it is that stark a choice and we hope congress on a bipartisan basis will make the right choice. >> thats national security advisor jake sullivan laying out the high stakes of a vote on more aid for ukraine. well look at where support stands on capitol hill for president bidens $106 billion foreign aid plan jus...

headquarters in new york, a lot of big stories today, including a stunning warning that stopped us in our tracks from the fbi director about what he saysed is an across-the-board rising terrorist threat level here in the united states. >> i see blinking lights everywhere i turn. >> martha: well hear more about that. he will -- well get more of what he said and explain what hes talking about there. it was stunning. first, a huge story to continue to tackle today. in recent years we have...

have continued, as have those on the jabaliya refugee camp in the north. israel insists its making "maximum effort" to avoid killing civilians. hospitals inside gaza are struggling to take in the casualties with un officials describing a "degree of panic" in medicalfacilities that hasnt been seen before. the un says palestinians who are being told to leave areas, which were previously seen as safe, are being pushed into a narrow corner of gaza. our international editor jeremy bowen rep...

an adviser to prime minister benjamin netanyahu told the bbc that israel was making the "maximum effort" to avoid killing civilians. israel has been dropping leaflets with maps, showing gazans the areas it plans to strike. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams explains why that often isnt protecting civilians. this has been a problem throughout the past two months. israel believes and says it is giving as much notice as it possibly can to the civilian population to leave certain area...