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
holding the rest of the country to ransom while the tories fight among themselves. suella braverman promised she would have more to say after her sacking yesterday. tonight, she has vented her anger. in a letter dripping with derision, the former home secretary accuses the prime minister of putting off the tough decisions in order to minimize political risk weakness, she says. we will get reaction to that letter tonight from our panel, the deputy political editor for the guardian, peter walker, and from washington, the conservative commentator carrie sheffield. president biden is about to touch down in san francisco, ahead of a crunch meeting tomorrow with the chinese president xijinping. and we will be keeping an eye on a crucial vote in washington tonight. the house scheduled to vote later on a bill that could avert a government shutdown saturday. was this the night of the long knife? it remains to be seen whether suella braverman has inflicted a mortal wound on this pr
the north yesterday, according to israel, after it opened a safe passage on the main road south for a few hours. another window has opened today for them to take the same route. meanwhile, the un s human rights chief has accused both sides of committing war crimes. here s our middle east correspondent yolande knell with the latest. israel s vast military might on display once again. it says hamas has lost control of northern gaza and its troops are battling inside gaza city. this is a critical point in the war. and for the first time the bbc was given access behind israeli lines in gaza, escorted by soldiers. while the bbc had editorial control of the report, these pictures were cleared for use by the israeli military. amid huge disruption, officers showed what they said was a hamas weapons factory, set up below a family apartment. they insisted hamas, not israel, was responsible for civilian loss of life. we know intelligence. we know what we had. we know the targets that ar
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