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Welcome to todays verified live. This will be one of the central dividing lines at the next general election. Labours sir keir starmer has pledged to scrap the governments Rwanda Scheme straight away if his party wins the general poll. The Labour Leader says he would use money saved to hire specialist investigators to tackle small boats crossing the channel. Well have more on that in a moment. But this is happened as the bbc has tracks down one of europes most wanted people smugglers Barzan Majeed nicknamed the scorpion. Speaking from northern iraq, he defended arranging for thousands of people, to travel to the uk, in small boats and lorries, arguing migrants are begging him for help. Our reporter sue mitchell is part of the team that tracked him down. She says Barzan Majeeds phone number was found on the phones of migrants coming to britain in small boats. My partner in this investigation is rob lawrie. Hes former british army and he has a lot of contacts in the migrant camps in bo
Wife visit nigeria, speaking to children at a Mental Health summit. I love you all confusion on eurovision eve will the dutch contestant perform in the final . Organisers are investigating reports of an incident backstage. And what can be done to protect the African Penguin . Conservationists are worried the species could be gone in a decade. On newsnight at 10 30pm, with peace talks stalled, israel is expanding its operations in gaza and its rift with the white house. With washington saying its watching with concern, tensions with the Biden Administration are growing deeper. Hello. Good evening. The Prime Minister has admitted it will take time for people to really feel better, after the latest figures showed the uk was officially out of recession. The economy all the goods and services we buy and sell grew by 0. 6 in the first three months of this year. That was much better than expected. And it brings to an end one of the Mildest Recessions on record shown by the shallow red bars on
Hits paris. Before that, the world is ready for the hits paris. Before that, the world is ready for the eurovision hits paris. Before that, the world is ready for the eurovision song i is ready for the Eurovision Song Contest in malmo because the pie will bring you the latest news and gossip on the bbc news channel. Lets turn to the us a school board in virginia has voted in favour of restoring the previously removed names of three Confederate Military leaders to two schools. The Motion Undid A Decision from 2020, which had removed the names of the men who had fought for the pro slavery Southern States during the civil war. Before making the decision, the school board heard arguments both in favour and against the proposal. Im a black student, and if the names are restored, i would have to represent a man that fought for my ancestors to be slaves. That makes me feel like im disrespecting my ancestors and going against what my family and i believe, which is that we should all be treated
Benjamin netanyahu has said he hopes to overcome his differences Withjoe Biden but vowed to press ahead with a Military Assault on rafah. Mr netanyahu was speaking to us media after President Biden confirmed that the us had withheld a delivery of munitions and could halt more shipments if Israeli Forces attack hamas in rafah, a densely populated city in the gaza strip. Mr netanyahu said israel had to defeat hamas in rafah. Paul adams sent this report from jerusalem. Haitham is trapped. After three operations for a bullet wound that punctured his lung, he needs treatment abroad. All set to leave until israel captured and closed the rafah crossing. Forced to wait in a tent. I feel helpless, he says. The world is powerless to open the border. The hospitals here can no longer help me. Just when rafah s need is greatest, its main hospital lies silent and abandoned, hastily evacuated in the face of israels sudden advance, now dangerously close to the front line. Israel insists its operation