Condition in hospital in bratislava. At a news conference, the slovak Interior Minister described the suspect as a lone wolf, who opposed the government. More details about his condition and emerging all the time. In the last few moments, slovakian President Elect Peter Pellegrini had this update from the hospital where mr fico is receiving treatment. Translation the Prime Minister is now facing the most difficult and challenging days, hours, minutes in order for him to survive. And i hope that everything will work out for the best. I really hope for us all to see his soon recovery and coming to full strength. Lets speak to bethany bell, our correspondent in bratislava. As we heard, microphone is in a very serious condition. We have been told that the next few days will be critical for him. That the next few days will be criticalfor him. She that the next few days will be critical for him. She was shot at very close range, including in the stomach, and of course he underwent several ar
The Prime Minister says the first flight carrying Asylum Seekers to rwanda will leave in 10 to 12 weeks time come what may. He says an airfield is on standby and charter planes are booked. Rishi sunak had originally promised the first flight would take off this spring, but his timetable now suggests a delay until the summer. He says peers and mps will have to sit through the night tonight if necessary to pass the governments controversial rwanda legislation. Our political correspondent, helen catt is in westminster. Helen. New statistics out this morning show one of the reasons why rishi sunak might be so keen to get those flights off soon, last Year Parliament passed a law that said that some asylum cases could only be dealt with by being removed from the uk. But they cant go to rwanda because the Supreme Court ruled it was unsafe and there are now nearly 52,000 Asylum Seekers whose claims simply cant be dealt with here. So what the government did to try and get around this last year
Under the policy, anyone entering the uk illegally, could be sent to rwanda, with no limit on numbers. The government hopes the policy will stop people trying to make the dangerous crossing on small boats. The plan has been strongly criticised by human rights groups, and the Uk Supreme Court ruled the policy was unlawful. Here is mr sunak setting out a timeline for his plan. The first flight will leave in 10 12 weeks. Now, of course that is later than we wanted, but we have always been clear that processing will take time and if labour peers had not spent weeks holding up the bill in the House Of Lords to try to block these flights altogether, we would have begun this process weeks ago. Lets speak to our Political Correspondent in westminster, peter saull. Peter, its been months of this being blocked, how different is this evening going to be . Being blocked, how different is this evening going to be . Someone told me earlier on tonight evening going to be . Someone told me earlier on
Uh. Inquiry to a full vote on the floor. When do you expect that would happen . Will it happen in the month of september . Well, well know a little bit more information this week. We go into session on tuesday. Bribery is one of the bases for an impeachment inquiry or articles of impeachment. And article two, section four of the constitution. But the problem taken, as you know is we will never get 60 votes in the democrat controlled senate, no matter how much evidence we prevent, and so from my perspective, the House Oversight judiciary ways and means need to continue our investigations. We need to show the American People all of the evidence that we young cover. We need to do it and swift order. We need more subpoenas. I want the bookkeeper. I want shokhin. I want hunter. I want everybody who is a witness and saw what we saw in the suspicious activity, reports that information we have to win in the court of Public Opinion so people can decide whether or not this guy who sold out his c
Hinders its counter offensive, the top ranking us Military Officer says. Speaking to the bbc, general mark milley said colder conditions would make it much harder for ukraine to manoeuvre. It comes as kyiv was attacked by russian drones early on sunday and debris fell in several districts, ukrainian officials say, but no casualties were reported. At least ten explosions were heard in the capital and Air Raid Sirens signalled that residents should take shelter. Lets go live now to kyiv and speak to our correspondent paul adams. Before to our correspondent paul adams. We talk about ti wa nt before we talk about the fighting, i want to talk about this agreement in delhi, which is not strongly worded, about the war in ukraine. Doesnt criticise russia, Sergey Lavrov has welcomed it and call that a milestone. What has the response from ukraine beam . fix, milestone. What has the response from ukraine beam . Milestone. What has the response from ukraine beam . A rather critical one. The resp