Ministers want to move hundreds more on to the Bibby Stockholm this week, but about 20 have refused to go. Speaking on bbc breakfast, the justice secretary alex chalk accepted there were legal challenges ahead for those who refuse to go on board. The position as they have made illegal objections to that process will need to go through its normal course, through our independent courts. We are very clear that if people dont have a right to be in the uk, that it is no longer sustainable for the british people to be spending £6 million a day on up to be spending £6 million a day on up to fourstar to be spending £6 million a day on up to four star accommodation, so of course we will be fair to people and ensure they are put up an appropriate accommodation which is safe and clean and decent and so on but we also have to be fair to the british people as well, and that means ensuring where there are alternatives to Expensive Hotel accommodation, be it a part of a disused army bases and so o
Hour. England ride their luck to reach the womens world cup quarterfinals. But theyll be without laurenjames, whose one match ban could be extended, following her sending off against nigeria. And we have a north south split in the weather today. In the north, largely dry with some sunshine, but wind increasing in the far north east. In the south, turning cloudy and murky with some patchy light rain. All the details later. Its tuesday the 8th of august. Our main story. 15 Asylum Seekers have spent their first night on the governments controversial Accommodation Barge, after a series of delays over safety concerns. Ministers want to move hundreds more onto the Bibby Stockholm in dorset this week, but some have already refused to go, launching legal challenges. All this comes as the home Office Announces a new taskforce to crack down on Rogue Lawyers who may be helping migrants to remain in the uk, underfalse claims. Ellie price reports. The first Asylum Seekers move into their new tempor
To defend themselves, citing the threat of Foreign Military intervention. They claim to have information a foreign power is preparing to attack. It comes after the expiry of a sunday deadline from west African Regional bloc ecowas, which demanded the coup be reversed. The group now plans to hold an Emergency Summit on thursday. Meanwhile, the United States is suspending more than 100 million in aid to niger. But officials insist theres still time to solve the crisis. I spoke to former state Department Official Bisa Williams earlier to get insights into the situation. We are now learning more about the Acting Deputy Secretary of states unsuccessful attempts to negotiate some kind of settlement to see a return to power of president Mohamed Bazoum. Why do you think she wasnt able to make any progress there . Im not sure i would characterise that as unsuccessful completely. My understanding was that the Acting Deputy Secretary left the door open for continued discussions and that basically
It this, you can get a deterrent into place, get flights off to rwanda and people are then dissuaded from crossing the channel in small boats then in due course the cost of the Asylum System will fall and they say that if they did nothing, if they simply took this rwanda policy out of the equation, then the cost of Hotel Accommodation in any case is set to soar. Of Hotel Accommodation in any case is set to soar is set to soar. Thank you very much indeed for is set to soar. Thank you very much indeed forjoining is set to soar. Thank you very much indeed forjoining us. Its three years since two brothers from blackburn in the north of england bought supermarket giant asda. Mohsin and zuber issa made a £5 billion fortune building a global Petrol Station empire, which they stilljointly own, with a private finance company. Buying asda though has put them under a glare of publicity and scrutiny partly because of the large amount of debt they used to do it. Theyre notoriously publicity shy. B
Judges law clerk which had been posted on social media, she has been assisting the judge throughout the trial, sitting next to him, and the judge had ordered trump to take it down and it hadnt happened. Now, we are reporting that Donald Trumps lawyer has now apologised to the judge for that violation, saying that Trumps Campaign machinery forgot to take down the post, there was no intention to evade or circumvent or ignore the order, according to Donald Trumps lawyers, adding that the post had now been taken down and the judge has said he would take the explanation under advisement and noted that trump is still responsible for the large machine, and thejudge did not immediately rule on the violation, although a ruling could come later in terms of any sort of sanction. So really robust words there from the judge in new york, so we will keep an eye on that story, there is bound to be more developments as the judge decides eventually what the sanction should be if there is any sanction, b