laura kuenssberg that his job as chancellor was to ask probing questions of every proposal that crossed his desk. he made the comments in a wideranging interview in which he also talked about the government looking at legal options in the case of the post office horizon it scandal and tackling illegal migration. let s talk about immigration. it s one of your top priorities. we also know from documents the bbc saw this week that when you were chancellor you expressed doubts about number 10 s desire to send migrants to rwanda. do you admit you had reservations? no, and i haven t seen the documents so i can t comment on them specifically. but i discussed it with the prime minister and ultimately funded the plans and the scheme and myjob now as prime minister is to get it up and running. i believe it s really important because it is about deterrence. the national crime agency has said you need a deterrent to solve the problem and i believe that. that s why i got a new deal with
today 110 people were killed in air strikes on the jabalia refugee camp in the north of the strip on sunday. a residential block was hit, with reports of many more people being trapped under rubble. the israeli military hasn t given any details about reported air strikes. but the idf says operations injabalia like this one on friday have destroyed hamas tunnels, explosives and military equipment, and soldiers found more than a £1 million claimed to be designated for terrorist activity . fierce fighting continues elsewhere in gaza with at least one child killed in a strike on the nasser hospital according to the hamas run health ministry. the bbc has been filming there as a middle east correspondent yolande knell reports from jerusalem. a warning you may find some of the images distressing. panic at the nasser hospital last night. children newly injured by an artillery strike, the hospital says. iis year old who already lost her parents, hersibling, her leg, her life. sh
in terms of the children, because that is unicef, of course, what are the greatest health concerns that they are now facing? two or three weeks ago we were hearing about malnutrition. just how dire are things now for children? it s beyond our worst fears at the moment. the rains that came last week have really increased concerns of waterborne diseases like diarrhoea, which is a great concern to children in this context, it s actually the second leading cause of death in children underfive. when children are sick with this, it really diminishes their water supplies and their salts and makes them even more vulnerable to things like malnutrition. so it s kind of a triple threat at the moment, with bombardments from the sky, the disease and the lack of food. so when you talk about diarrhoea, tell us what do the children need to treat that? obviously, clean conditions are number one, but what do you need initially to arrest that diarrhoea to stop them losing all that water in thei
parliament today on his plan to send asylum seekers to rwanda. mps and his are worried this will not stop the courts from getting clogged up with legal challenges. some have called for the legislation to be scrapped altogether. i for the legislation to be scrapped altogether. i do not think the scrapped altogether. i do not thinkthe bill scrapped altogether. i do not think the bill is scrapped altogether. i do not think the bill is easily - think the bill is easily amendable and, really, i think the government needs to review it and maybe consider a completely new piece of legislation because this leaves so many gaps in the legislation.- so many gaps in the leaislation. . ., legislation. this morning, the prime minister legislation. this morning, the prime minister has legislation. this morning, the prime minister has tried - legislation. this morning, the prime minister has tried to i prime minister has tried to butter up some of his critics in a breakfast at downing
have reacted with fury to a draft agreement due to be signed in the coming hours. it includes a range of actions countries could take to reduce emissions, but makes no direct reference to phasing out fossilfuels which had been in an earlier d raft. the eu is threatening to walk out, a representative of small island states says it would be like signing their death certificate. our climate editorjustin rowlatt has the latest. when the new draft was released, there was confusion. negotiators and journalists scrolled through the pages. the realisation slowly dawning that the agreement had changed. a landmark deal to get rid of the fossil fuel responsible for climate change had seemed within reach. now it appeared to be being snatched away. eamon ryan is one of the eu s lead climate negotiators. if the text doesn t change, will you walk away from the deal? this text will not be acceptable. would you walk away? if this doesn t change, it will not be accepted as a text. so what