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Their small boat got into difficulties off the french coast. Its understood that a number of people were pulled from the water and taken to the port at calais. The latest rescue operation comes after Senior Border force officials raised concerns that people in small boats are using children as human shields to evade police. Last week, over 900 migrants crossed to the uk. Well, the Northern Ireland secretary says the government is surprised by how quickly their rwanda plan appears to be working. ...

Continue in his post until a replacement can be found. Replacement can be found. Clearly emotional, mr yousaf said hes quitting to help repair relationships across the political divide. Political divide. No, ella whelan certainly bear no grudge against anyone. Politics can be a brutal business. It takes its toll on your physical and mental health. Your family suffer alongside you. I am in absolute debt to my wonderful wife, my beautiful children and my wider family for putting up with me over th...

A hole in the ozone layer over antarctica, thats fuelled by smoke from Wildfire Events in australia, is exposing wildlife to protentially damaging levels of uv light. Scientists from the University Of Wollongong say animals and plants are having to put more energy into avoiding the rays. Heres our science correspondent victoria gill. The ozone layer that protects us from the suns most harmful rays is healing gradually. But in antarctica, in cold high atmospheric clouds, a hole in that layer stil...

Are at risk from the rays. Welcome to bbc news. President zelensky has renewed his appeal for allies to provide ukraine with more air defences, after another night of russian bombardment caused serious damage to Energy Infrastructure. He called for decisive action, saying the world could shoot down every missile and drone launched by, what he called, � russian terrorists�. Four power plants were hit in three regions, and Gas Infrastructure was also struck. An oil refinery in occupied slavyan...

Labour senior backbencher Stephen Timms will fill us in on what their what to look out for from their Conference Liverpool next conference in liverpool next week. Taking the week. And ill be taking the temperature of the party with a special people panel this week live the tory members and live with the tory members and im going to be joined by my colleague at the telegraph, the papers papers Political Editor, Ben Riley Smith. Hes not got a great new book out which spills the on the last years t...

In the dnipro region in central ukraine and Western Areas of lviv and ivano frankivsk. Ukrainian Officials Say equipment has been damaged and at least one Energy Worker injured. Russia has repeatedly targeted Ukrainian Energy infrastructure over recent months. Its attacks such as these which have prompted more us aid to ukraine. The United States has outlined what will be included in a 6 billion package of military assistance. Its part of a larger 60 billion commitment which was approved by cong...

And scattered showers in the north, but still fairly chilly for the time of year. All the details coming up on bbc breakfast. Good morning. Its saturday, 27th april. The governments being urged to take action to stop unpaid carers unwittingly racking up thousands of pounds of debt. Carers are entitled to nearly £82 a week in benefits, but only if they owned less than £151 in take home pay from otherjobs. As a result, many end up owing money after being inadvertently overpaid. Our reporter Dan ...

Progress in finding common ground. In the last few hours, its also been announced that americas top diplomat Antony Blinken will visit saudi arabia this week. Meanwhile, hamas has posted a new video, which shows two of the hostages captured during its october attack. Keith siegel, and omri miran, both identify themselves. While the video is not dated, there is a reference to the recent passover holiday. Its the second such video that hamas considered a terror group by the uk and Us Governments h...

david amess. we cant live in a society where those who represent our views inside our democracy are exposed to that level of violence. and im afraid that level of violence starts with a tolerance of the sorts of narratives we have seen projected towards people. so the sorts of narratives we have seen projected towards people.— proected towards people. so there is projected towards people. so there is still quite — projected towards people. so there is still quite a _ projected towa...

scotland and even in northern ireland and parts of oxygen, below freezing but take a look at what to expect when you wake up tomorrow —— parts of oxfordshire. some places a good 10 degrees up on what we had this morning. it is all because of the cloud and rain that will spoil the cloud and rain that will spoil the child is the meteor shower. as you can see, moving in is a south—westerly wind get a great spoil the chances. it will bring a way start for many for our saturday mornin...