spill in east palestine. and it s a frustrating night for tottenham as they crash out of the champions league against milan. rat a very warm welcome to the programme. we begin in the former soviet republic of georgia, where large crowds have been protesting against new laws which critics say will limit freedoms. the biggest demonstrations took place in the capital tbilisi, where police used water cannon and tear gas to try to disperse the crowds. our correspondent rayhan demytrie is in tbilisi and she sent us this report. every big moment in history has its iconic image. this may be georgia s. on tuesday, thousands of protesters stood for europe, and stood their ground against water cannons, tear gas and pepper spray. and they even fought back. 55 police officers were injured. protesters have been outraged by what s been happening in parliament pro government mps spoiling for a fight with the opposition, and then backing a controversial foreign agents bill. the law would re
of excessive force. britain s government is accused of utter failure over its plans to stop migrant boats but the prime minister says they re the people s priority . and australia looks set to become the first country in the world to totally eliminate cervical cancer. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in the former soviet republic of georgia, where large crowds have been protesting against new laws which critics say will limit freedoms. the biggest demonstrations were in the capital, tbilisi, where police used water cannons and tear gas to try to disperse the crowds. our correspondent rayhan demytrie is in tbilisi in the last hour, she sent us this report. every big moment in history has its iconic image this may be georgia s. on tuesday, thousands of protesters stood for europe and stood their ground against water cannons, tear gas and pepper spray. and they even fought back. 55 police officers were injured, but pro
george s. on tuesday, thousands of protesters stood for europe and it stood their ground against water cannons, teargas and pepper spray. they even fought back. 55 police were injured. protesters have been outraged by what has been happening in parliament. pro government mps spoiling for a fight with the opposition and then backing a controversial foreign agents bill. the law would require ngos and media that give more than 20% of their funding from that give more than 20% of theirfunding from broad that get more than 20% of the funding from broad label themselves as foreign agents. it is like russia s foreign agent law which has been used to stigmatise and silence foreign voices. the georgian
and talking of criticising lawyers and others, look at this, an e mail that didn t come from the home office, but the conservative party, suggesting previous policies on small boats were blocked by an activist blob of left wing lawyers, civil servants and the labour party. it s all in the name of the home secretary, even though she claims she knew nothing about it. civil servants are furious. if she or the conservative party make a mistake, admit it and apologise people you have insulted those people are working on some of the most difficult things and they deserve better than this. the conservative party says it s looking into it. back in the commons, the snp accused government of exaggerating. yesterday, this was a tory government who said 100 million people could be coming to these shores, and this is a tory government that this morning said that number could in fact be billions.
and they even fought back. 55 police officers were injured. protesters have been outraged by what s been happening in parliament. pro government mps spoiling for a fight with the opposition and then backing a controversial foreign agents bill. the law would require ngos and media that get more than 20% of their funding from abroad to label themselves as agents of foreign influence. it s in the same spirit as russia s foreign agent law, which over the years has been used to stigmatize and silence critical voices. the georgian government says that it wants more transparency and that the bill has been copied from an american law. but in a statement, the united states embassy in tbilisi described it