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. this was james cleverly s first foreign trip as home secretary, but hang on a minute, a spot of east african deja vu. priti patel came here as home secretary in april of last year and suella braverman was here in march. three home secretaries making it to rwanda before a single migrant. last month, the supreme court said the rwanda plan was unlawful. this is what the government s hoped for solution
engaged in some of the heaviest fighting since the start of its invasion of gaza. people there are being told to move further south as israeli forces step up their operation against hamas, designated a terror organisation by many western governments. the united nations is warning of an even more hellish scenario in the region with no safe places for people to go. this map shows the main districts of gaza a huge flow of people were told to leave their homes more than a month ago and move to southern gaza. the un says nearly 1.9m people have been forced from their homes in this way since october the 7th. that s more than 85 % of the population in gaza. this is the latest damage assessment map of the territory, as shown here in red. the worst hit areas you can see in the north of the strip. unconfirmed reports claim israeli troops may try to destroy the vast network of hamas tunnels underneath the gaza strip by flooding them with sea water. our diplomatic correspondent, paul
sderot, israel. how is israel expanding its ground assault? reporter: i sat down with israel s top tank commander to talk about how tanks are going to play a central role in the offensive in the south as today the first israeli tanks were spotted in southern gaza. as israel expands its ground offensive into southern gaza the brigadier general, the head of israel s armored corps, said tanks will once again be central to israel s war strategy. reporter: israeli tanks were at the tip of the offensive into gaza in october, clearing the way for infantry troops to move into dangerous and densely populated cities. ibrahim says this kind of coordination is a lesson learned from russian failures in ukraine. translator: we saw where they only fought with tanks alone they were more vulnerable. this overcomes almost every problem on the battlefield. reporter: israeli tanks are pushing through, not around residential buildings, reducing entire neighborhoods to rubble to minimi
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it s true, it s like he vanished into thin air. is very confusing. the a s don t go missing. this one did and hasn t been seen since. was he murdered? was it suicide? did he just walk away? whatever happened here is well planned out. he was the first to investigate coast jerry sandusky. could there be a link between that case and his disappearance? somebody knows something or a lot of somebodies do. somebo hello and welcome to dateline. ray gricar was the first to invest in applications coast jerry sandusky sexually abused the child long before the scandal made headlines. seven years later he mysteriously disappeared. the strange turn of events left people asking was there a connection? here is lester holt with the case of the missing d.a.. the clues are tantalizing. a sporty red car. a speck of cigarette ash. battered hard drive. it absolutely is a mystery. what do those clues say about the sudden disappearance of the district attorney who left them behind?