carried out a raid there. and one of the great love stories of british acting timothy west and prunella scales celebrate 60 years of marriage. and coming up on bbc news. virat kohli has scored his 50th odi hundred, breaking the record of fellow indian legend sachin tendulkar, in the cricket world cup semifinal against new zealand. good afternoon. the supreme court has ruled the government s policy of sending some asylum seekers to rwanda is unlawful. in a significant blow to the prime minister, five judges unanimously ruled against his flagship policy to stop illegal migration. they said rwanda has a poor record on human rights and also that, if refugees go to rwanda, there d be a a real risk of them being sent back to the countries they d originally fled from. rishi sunak said it s not the outcome we wanted but that he s now looking at alternative steps which would mean migrants can still be sent to rwanda. here s our political correspondent ione wells. today was jud
welcome to verified live, the uk supreme court has ruled that the government s policy of sending asylum seekers to rwanda is unlawful. in a significant blow to the prime minister, five judges unanimously ruled against his flagship policy to stop illegal migration. they said rwanda has a poor record on human rights and also that if refugees went to rwanda, there d be a a real risk of them being sent back to the countries they d originally fled from. rishi sunak said he s now looking at alternative steps, which would mean migrants could still be sent to rwanda. he is under pressure from his own mps, with theirs urging him to ignore the laws. here s our political correspondent, ione wells. today was judgment day. does the government have the right to send some asylum seekers to rwanda? the verdict, no. the judges agreed there were substantial grounds to believe there was a real risk that genuine refugees could wrongly be sent back from rwanda to countries they fled from, s
defense s first witness. meanwhile, we ll tell you why the former president is asking for his federal 2020 election trial to be televised live. new this morning, republican senator tim scott abruptly drops out of the presidential race, even shocking his staffers. what he told them on a call right after. overseas, the world health organization says gaza s main hospital is no longer functioning with several babies dying and more still at risk. also, the u.s. military launches air strikes for the third time on locations in syria used by iran in retaliation for attacks on u.s. troops in the region. and back at home, there are only five days left for congress to come to a deal to avert a government shutdown. the new house speaker has a plan, but does he have the votes? and we begin this very busy hour inside a new york city courtroom where former president trump s eldest son, donald trump jr. has taken the stand again. this time he s the first witness for the defense in
this year. since then, the former president has made no secret for his plans of revenge if he wins a second term in november, including in an interview aired just last night. they have done indictments in order to win an election. they call it weaponization. and the people aren t going to stand for it. yeah, they have done something that allows the next party. if i happen to be president, and i see somebody who s doing well and beating me very badly, i say, go down and indict them. mostly that would be, you know, they would be out of business. they d be out. they d be out of the election. so this is not the first time that we ve heard that a victorious president-elect trump would do things differently the second time around. the new york times recently reporting on how allies of the former president are preparing to pack the white house with aggressive right wing lawyers who would be less likely to stand in the way of his agenda, which was a frustration of his during hi