his coalition, ensemble , lost around a hundred seats, with major gains for both marine le pen s far right party and a new alliance led by far left leaderjean luc melenchon. now on bbc news, it s time for dateline london, with sean ley. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk commentators with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences in their own countries from the dateline london. this week, what does international law amount to? on tuesday, judges in british courts decided it was permissible to fly would be asylum seekers to rwanda in east africa because, if the policy is subsequently ruled unlawful, the british government can be relied upon to bring them back again. it was a judge on the european court of human rights whose intervention prevented the flight taking off at all. a day later, lord geidt became the second independent ethics adviser in succession to the prime minister to resign. the government was conside
by indian politicians. at least three people were killed. now on bbc news, it s time for dateline london with sean ley. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk commentators with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences in their own countries from the dateline london. this week, what does international law amount to? on tuesday, judges in british courts decided it was permissible to fly would be asylum seekers to rwanda in east africa because, if the policy is subsequently ruled unlawful, the british government can be relied upon to bring them back again. it was a judge on the european court of human rights whose intervention prevented the flight taking off at all. a day later, lord geidt became the second independent ethics adviser in succession to the prime minister to resign. the government was considering paying subsidies to steel manufacturers in the uk in breach of the rules of the world trade organization. the cod
decided it was permissible to fly would be asylum seekers to rwanda in east africa because, if the policy is subsequently ruled unlawful, the british government can be relied upon to bring them back again. it was a judge on the european court of human rights whose intervention prevented the flight taking off at all. a day later, lord geidt became the second independent ethics adviser in succession to the prime minister to resign. the government was considering paying subsidies to steel manufacturers in the uk in breach of the rules of the world trade organization. the code says ministers should not break the law. downing street was considering suspending it and asked for his advice. for lord geidt, this was the last straw. on friday, borisjohnson escaped these domestic distractions to spend the day in kyiv. these domestic distractions he is one of the allies of ukraine championing international law as a tool to bring to account rations for actions taken nations for actions ta
in the studio, ian birrell, who writes for the mail on sunday and is freshly returned from a lengthy spell in the donbas region of ukraine. latika bourke is a columnist for the age of melbourne and the sydney morning herald. she has spent much of a month stomping through australia covering the election campaign there. and jeffrey kofman has been a news anchor in both his native canada and the united states as a war correspondent. thank you all for coming, good to see you. a bit of a relief from the hot temperatures outside in london as we record this programme. jeffrey, let s begin with rwanda. tell us what happened to what britain says is a ground breaking, revolutionary new asylum policy, sending asylum seekers who want to come and live in the uk to rwanda instead. i tell you what did not happen, europe did not meddle in british law. that s what borisjohnson and his supporters want us to believe, that this is another european incursion. that is not what happened. a couple of observat
those three aspects. in the studio, ian birrell, who writes for the mail on sunday and is freshly returned from a lengthy spell in the donbas region of ukraine. latika bourke is a columnist for the age of melbourne and the sydney morning herald. she has spent much of a month stomping through australia covering the election campaign there. and jeffrey kofman has been a news anchor in both his native canada and the united states as a war correspondent. thank you all for coming, good to see you. a bit of a relief from the hot temperatures outside in london as we record this programme. jeffrey, let s begin with rwanda. tell us what happened to what britain says is a ground breaking, revolutionary new asylum policy, sending asylum seekers who want to come and live in the uk to rwanda instead. i tell you what did not happen, europe did not meddle in british law. that s what borisjohnson and his supporters want us to believe, that this is another european incursion. that is not what happened.