tonight, the uk appears to be on the brink of taking military action with the us against houthi rebels who ve been attacking ships in the red sea. could parliament be recalled to discuss any uk military response? tonight we ll guide you step by step through this latest international crisis with our defence editor mark urban and our political editor nick watt. also tonight. breathtaking testimony from a fraud investigator employed by the post office to examine shortfalls at branches across the country his evidence helped wrongly convict multiple subpostmasters he investigated this ex branch manager who was suspended by the post office after shortfalls and fraud accusations. you have been told there was a growing body of cases and that in itself was not sufficient for you the question the reliability of the horizon system. because i am not technically minded. i would expect that to come from people above. shazia saddiq was with us last night and is back tonight. she was at th
breakfast. it s thursday the 7th of december. our main story. rishi sunak is considering who to appoint as immigration minister following robertjenrick s dramatic resignation. he left in protest against new legislation designed to give the government the power to send migrants to rwanda. mrjenrick says the bill, which will be presented to parliament today, doesn t go far enough, because people arriving in small boats can still challenge their deportation to rwanda at the european court of human rights. our political correspondent, damian grammaticas, reports. it s nice to see you, have a good evening. why did you resign, sir? the answer is simple. nice to see you all, thanks very much. and it makes this a moment of perilfor rishi sunak. do you think the prime minister will be able to stop the boats, mr jenrick? as immigration minister, robertjenrick had vowed to see asylum seekers deported to rwanda even after the supreme court ruled the plan unlawful. this was tuesday
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