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Because nobody wants these journeys across the channel to be made, these perilousjourneys. everybody wants to clamp down on the gangs. that requires grown—up work with the french authorities and upstream work to actually tackle these gangs. you don't do that if you're a government that is asking the national crime agency to make cuts. tagging and monitoring is used for people subject to court or prison orders. those who work with refugees say extending it to them is cruel and amounts to treating those who come seeking a welcome as criminals. actually, this is a diversion tacticj from the gov...

Has climbed from 297 in 2018 to almost 29,000 last year. this year has already seen 4,578 arrivals and looks set to be a new record. rwanda's human rights record is one concern refugee groups have. the prime minister said he expected a legal challenge and that the plans will not be put in place overnight. but desperate to deal with channel crossings with limited options at hand, ministers hope a pledge to send people away will prove to be a deterrent. jonathan blake, bbc news, westminster. earlier our home editor mark easton gave us this update. it has taken nine months of intensive negotiatio...

Refugees in their homes, the website will be set up so if people have spare room, or even a spare flat or house, they can register their interest from today in hopes of hosting a specific named ukrainian family to have in their home for a minimum of six months. and as a thank you, the government will pay a flat rate up 350 pounds a month. as well as 10,000 pounds to the local council who will of course need to provide health and education and other support for that family. now, there have been some concerns raised by refugee groups of a hot will work. we know that their families are hosting wi...

Least six months, we are told. during that time those people will be able to live, work, access public services and claim benefits if needs be in the uk. it will allow more people to come but the requirement for a visa remains. it may lead to an increase in numbers coming to the uk but the requirements that need to be met by those people before they arrive still remains. while this may go some way to allaying some of the criticism that has come the government's way over its approach to those fleeing the conflict, it will not go near enough for the opposition parties who have branded the approa...

Next, all they are concerned about implications of the conflict. there was also i think an important component of it, a stronger sense of identification with cranes amongst many europeans and obviously we have seen an outpouring of solidarity and sympathy, and support which we've not seen for other refugee groups and i think one of the reasons for thatis and i think one of the reasons for that is with the stories that are told that ukrainian refugees, to be very focused on individual stories, women, children and families and the struggles faced were those with syrian refugees, those individual...