after the country s highest court ruled that the government s policy was unlawful. the court found there was a real risk that asylum seekers who were sent to rwanda could be wrongly assessed, and returned to their country of origin, where they could face persecution. rishi sunak says new emergency legislation will enable parliament to confirm rwanda is safe and that he remained committed to stopping thousands of migrants crossing the channel in small boats every year. here s our political editor chris mason: the geography of power parliament in the background this morning. the supreme court in focus. refugees cannot be returned to their countries of origin if their life and freedom would be threatened. it s known as the principal of non refoulment, and at precisely ten o clock this morning it proved crucial. the legal test which has to be applied in this case is whether there are substantial grounds for believing that asylum seekers sent to rwanda would be at real risk of
in afghanistan that don t obtain here. and our view of what a country and what an army is supposed to look like was not reflected in how afghanistan did its business. so we started out doing very well. we got rid of the taliban. and we got rid of al qaeda. and we wanted to get rid of terrorists. and we did a great job doing that. but we recognized if we didn t secure the area, that they were coming back, not realizing that we may not be able to secure the area and they were coming back anyway. wow, colonel jack jacobs, we could talk to you for an hour about this, unfortunately that s all the time we have, but thank you very much for your expertise. my pleasure, thank you. what s happened in the past two days on the covid front hasn t happened for more than a month and it is a bit of good news in the overall gloom. that s next. mission control, we are go for launch. t-minus two minutes
afternoon highs in chicago, only up to 19 degrees. atlanta makes it up to the middle 40s by the afternoon hours. and notice where the front hasn t arrived, the 70s in the gulf coast. it s wednesday morning. temps down into the single digits from chicago into detroit. pedram, thank you for that. breaking overnight, israel takes down a senior jihadi leader. cnn is live on the israel/gaza border.
military action included a suspected poison gas attack the attack for which u.s. president donald trump has vowed retaliation but the white house later appeared to roll back on his threat to launch missiles. the president has not laid out a timetable and still leaving a number of other options on the table and we re still considering a number of those and a final decision on that front hasn t been made. that s in contrast to the president s earlier incendiary tweets including russia vows to shoot down missiles fired at syria get ready russia because they will be coming you should be partners with a gas killing an animal who kills his people and enjoys it u.s. warships left port on wednesday to move within striking range of syria. russia said it s keeping a close eye on the fleet and the kremlin hit out a trump s handling of the situation. we do not participate in twitter diplomacy
reporter: questions about congress and possibly blocking or delaying tariff implementation. how concerned is the white house about that and a follow-up on china, if i may. sure. our position on this front hasn t changed. the president health insuran s quite some time what his position is and what his authority is under the 232 statute and we re moving forward. reporter: if i might, i know the president made a tongue-in cheek comment about president xi having the ability to rule for quite some time, possibly indefinitely. is it healthy for the relationship between our country? that would be a determination for china to make, not certainly for the united states to weigh in on. reporter: is it healthy in terms of the administration s relationship bilaterally to have a leader that will be there potentially indefinitely? i wouldn t weigh in on that. i can say that the president and president xi is a good relationship and a lot of the