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in a major blow to the prime minister tonight, the minister responsible for immigration, robertjenrick, has resigned — at the very moment legislation on asylum seekers was being announced to the commons. his resignation came over a bill attempting to enable the government's policy of sending some migrants to rwanda to go ahead after the supreme court ruled it unlawful. mrjenrick said it didn't go far enough and it would not end what he called "the merry go round of legal challenges which risked paralysing the scheme." our political editor chris mason is here. a huge embarrassment t...

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 williamson has been speaking with some of those affected and joins us now from jerusalem. there are n...

good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the government has signed a new deal with rwanda today, the latest attempt in plans to send some migrants there. the supreme court ruled the last version of the policy was against the law as migrants sent to rwanda would then be at risk of being sent back home dangerous countries. today the home secretary james cleverly insisted the new deal addressed those issues. but he couldn't guarantee that any flights carrying asylum seekers would take off before the next election. our political editor chris mason travelled with him to rwanda. th...

the story of the weather now! here's simon king. yes, and five might go on a wintry adventure in cumbria this weekend! mixture of rain, sleet and snow. through the week, it will get a bit less cold. i will start with a temperature anomaly. the blues is where it has been colder than average, the white to red, warmer than average. through the week, we start to see the oranges come back to the map, so we lose the very cold air and sea temperatures rising. today, this area of low pressure has brought quite a bit of rain, especially towards parts of wiltshire, dorset, somerset. that heavy...

but iyou've got it on a trajectory, it's gone up and it's then going to go down. well. hang on. just let's just explain exactly what happened. so in that 2020 budget, when rishi sunak was chancellor, it was the biggest ever increase. now, i then had to balance the books a year ago. it was an incredibly difficult situation, but it was necessary for the markets and it was necessary for the battle against inflation. so what i chose to do was to freeze that capital budget in cash terms, which is not a freeze in real terms. i hope as soon as we can afford to, we can get back to real terms...