in qatar, a senior football ambassador says homosexuality is damage in the mind and that visitors to the world cup will have to respect the country s laws. the fight for power in the us congress as trump and biden rally the party troops for the mid term elections. ding dong, you re not wrong! and leslie phillips best known for his roles in the carry on films has died at the age of 98. and coming up on the bbc news channel: a losing start for britain in the billiejean king cup, in their opener with kazakhstan. it means they could face an early exit in glasgow. good evening. it s taken just two weeks to prompt the first cabinet resignation of rishi sunak s premiership. a short while ago sir gavin williamson resigned as a senior minister following days of allegations about his conduct. he said he aimed to clear his name of any wrongdoing. downing street was already investigating accusations of bullying and harrassment and sir gavin has also been reported to the parli
people do we want to? what skills do we want them to have? or be happy to have doctors and nurses coming? or be happy to have fruit pickers coming because my cleaners? social care workers? what countries are we going to get them from and what limits are going to put on those visas? that s all very fair, reasonable questions. that s a separate question from how you deal with illegal migration and asylum seekers and asylum claims which is what we are seeing with people crossing the channel in the small boats and we absolutely see it as a tragic situation in various migrant processing facilities in kent. what you ve got to remember about asylum seekers and illegal crossings is that there are two main reasons that people do this, one that they are chancing their luck and they think that they might be able to make a serious asylum claim tickets excepted, but the other reason is that they are genuine refugees fleeing all kinds of situations, some of them climate related, geopolitic
the deal involves extra money and drones for france. the i paper says that sunak s allies are calling for a purge of the tory right including according to the paper s sources calls to sack home secretary suella braverman. the times reports that rishi sunak will deny the king the opportunity to attend the cop27 climate conference. the guardian focuses on sharma s call to tax excessive oil profits. on its front, the daily mirror carries a message from 77 year old his post was demoted. hospital paitent catherine poole to the prime minister, that he should pay up and increase nurses salaries. the financial times focuses on elon musk closing his deal for twitter across a backdrop of crashing share prices across silicon valley. the daily mail looks at the submarine sex pests scandal , reporting on an inquiry that has looked at claims of bullying and harassment of women in the submarine service. james, do you want to kick us off this time? tell us more about this apparent
as the cost of living crisis bites? the most successful female golfer of all time, kathy whitworth, has died at the age of 83. she won a record 88 ladies professional golf association titles. hello and welcome to bbc news. a russian air base hundreds of kilometres from ukraine has come under attack for the second time in less than a month. the russian defence ministry says the engels base in the southern saratov region was targeted by ukrainian drones during the night. russia says it shot down the drones, but that three of its servicemen were killed by falling debris. the base is host to long range russian strategic bombers, the type of which have launched numerous missiles strikes on ukraine. from moscow, our russia editor, steve rosenberg, reports. caught on cctv. an explosion at a russian airbase. russia says it shot down a ukrainian drone but that three russian soldiers were killed. engels airbase is deep inside russian territory, hundreds of miles from the ukrainian bord