And pose a real threat. Yellowknife is now blanketed in smoke and fires are burning close to the one major road into and out of the city. Rebecca alty is the mayor of yellowknife. She told us what things were like there. Right now, its residents are evacuating by road. As many people as possible are doing that. Theres also, for folks who dont have vehicles, we are starting the air evacuations, so flights. We still have commercial flights, so some people have booked onto a commercial flight, but we have the Evacuation Flights also starting at 1pm. So getting folks registered for that just began an hour ago. So folks have been good, theres long line ups i think there was kilometres worth of a line up, so a bit of a snail s place out of town, its just one road in, one road out. That highway is where the fire is, so the highway can close. But right now, it is open. If the conditions change, if the smoke gets too heavy, if the fire were to approach the highway, the highway would be closed a
Tonight, those who have been wrongfully convicted of crimes will no longer have their living costs docked from their compensation payments. New compensation payments. New guidance issued by justice secretary alex chalk comes into immediate effect. As of today. It follows the controversy sparked by the jailing of Andrew Malkinson , who spent 17 years malkinson, who spent 17 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. Donald trump has not commit. Donald trump has targeted the federal judge assigned to the case, charging him with seeking to overturn the 2020 president ial election. In 2020 president ial election. In a social media post, trump said , social media post, trump said, there is no way i can get a fair trial with the judge assigned , trial with the judge assigned, and no formal request has been filed with the court. Well, it comes as a lawyer for donald trump says that the former president was simply exercising trump says that the former pre rightt was simply exercising tru
Night of it. First, the headlines with rory smith. Headlines with rory smith. Thank you very much. Leo the first Asylum Seekers are to be housed on the bibby stockholm barge in the coming days. Immigration minister Robert Jenrick says around 50 people will enter the vessel in Portland Port in dorset. This week. Mrjenrick Portland Port in dorset. This week. Mr jenrick says Portland Port in dorset. This week. Mrjenrick says increasing week. Mr jenrick says increasing the numbers on the barge to the capacity of around 500 is still the plan. Thats despite concerns from the Fire Brigades Union over the vessel initially designed to house around 200 people. Meanwhile the shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock says a Labour Government would still have to house migrants in barges for short penods migrants in barges for short periods while tackling the backlog of asylum cases. A Labour Government would also continue to place Asylum Seekers in former military bases for up to six months. In o
Smith. Thank you very much , darren. Thank you very much, darren. The met office is warning of possible danger to life as storm anthony batters parts of the uk. Anthony batters parts of the uk. An amber warning is in place for southwestern parts of england and wales that runs until 7 00 this evening. Strong winds could cause flying debris. Power cuts cause flying debris. Power cuts and even travel disruption. Ian and even travel disruption. Ian meanwhile, a yellow weather warning for rain is in place for Northern Ireland with flooding possible. Weather journalist possible. Weather journalist nathan rao explains the conditions windspeeds of this storm. Storm anthony are expected to be around 75 mile per hour gusts on the coasts and 55 mile per hour inland. Its not the strongest storm that weve seen , but because of the time of year , the leaves, the trees are year, the leaves, the trees are all in full leaf and its houday all in full leaf and its holiday season. The schools are off. And
Off. And where its going to be hitting of this storm hitting the impact of this storm hitting the impact of this storm hitting today is likely to be greater than had the same sort of happened later in the of thing happened later in the year. Yeah two French Police officers have been injured in clashes with migrant a near calais. Around 60 people threw rocks and other missiles as officers tried to stop people smugglers launching a small boat. The officers retreated in hospital for non life threatening injuries. Gb news can reveal that 15,100 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats since the start of the year. Thats down more than 2500 on the same period last year. 2500 on the same period last year. Prosecutors in the us have year. Prosecutors in the us have asked a judge to limit what donald trump can say publicly about a criminal case against him. They warned that mr trump him. They warned that mr trump may be seeking to use evidence to target witnesses after he posted