welcome to verified live, the uk supreme court has ruled that the government s policy of sending asylum seekers to rwanda is unlawful. in a significant blow to the prime minister, five judges unanimously ruled against his flagship policy to stop illegal migration. they said rwanda has a poor record on human rights and also that if refugees went to rwanda, there d be a a real risk of them being sent back to the countries they d originally fled from. rishi sunak said he s now looking at alternative steps, which would mean migrants could still be sent to rwanda. he is under pressure from his own mps, with theirs urging him to ignore the laws. here s our political correspondent, ione wells. today was judgment day. does the government have the right to send some asylum seekers to rwanda? the verdict, no. the judges agreed there were substantial grounds to believe there was a real risk that genuine refugees could wrongly be sent back from rwanda to countries they fled from, s
and we report from iceland as a town is evacuated amid growing fears of a volcanic erruption there. the adage that revenge is a dish best served cold in the sanctum secretary has a blistering attack on rishi sunak on newsnight at 1030. good evening. suella braverman has launched an all out attack on the prime minister a day after he sacked her as home secretary. in a letter to the prime minister she told rishi sunak that his plan is not working, the party is running out of time and he needs to change course urgently. the letter was relentless in its personal attacks strewn with stinging words like weak, betrayal, failed. let s go straight to westminster and our political editor chris mason. you picked three words but there are plenty for me to go out. here are a few more, wishful thinking, no appetite for doing what is necessary, equivocation and lack of interest. downing street said the prime minister s focus was on actions and not words. after this letter that chall
So this is the mayor and this is a county commissioner. [inaudible] thank you. Thank you all for coming. You dont think its on . You are probably right. Is this matter likes all right. Thank you. Welcome to my townhall meeting. I do want to thank the mayor for letting us use the city hall. Weve done several town halls here. Were going to be very interactive for the next hour or so. I have a few announcements. All these cameras you see around the room are from cspan television. They are not televising it live but they are going to tape it and show it sometime saturday. So you might be a cspan celebrity this weekend. We have some rules about our townhall. Thithis is a conversation betwen you the constituents and me the congressman. This is not a debate between the gentleman on the front row and the lady over there with the American Flag tshirt. If somebody says something you like, you can apply and probably some of you have signed your going to hold up saying you agree or disagree or wha
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