the backlog is false. the figures are nearly 100,000 cases and they haven t even fully cleared the bit of the backlog they were targeting. with the number of small boats arriving down by more than a third last year compared with 2022, and a much improved processing rate for asylum cases, the government is claiming progress on immigration control but its critics argue the figures have been massaged and are far from a pledge delivered, the statistics show a promise broken. mark easton, bbc news. let s get more analysis of those figures. 0ur chief political correspondent henry zeffman is with me now. i guess we re going to be hearing much more about whole issue of asylum in general in what is almost certain to be an election year. it is a new political year but a familiar set of arguments. we know it is almost certain, as you say, 2024 will be a general election year. it is absolutely certain that when the general election comes asylum and immigration are going to be some of the big campa
many an earthquake. but never felt tremors of this magnitude, which have shaken both their surroundings and their sense of safety. jean mckenzie, bbc news. let s go back to tokyo. suranjana tewari is in tokyo at the airport for us. japan is already coping with that powerful earthquake and now another tragedy where you are that could have been so much worse? i think we have lost our live link with suranjana, but we will try to go back to tokyo a bit later on. the government says it has met a promise by the prime minister to clear a large part of the backlog of asylum claims. according to the home office, more than 112,000 asylum cases
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