after they went missing. and, the wait is almost over super fans are poised online as tickets for eurovision go on sale later. hello and welcome to bbc news. welcome to viewers here in the uk and around the world. britain s home secretary, suella braverman, has accepted the government is pushing the boundaries of international law with new legislation aimed at stopping asylum seekers crossing the english channel in small boats. it s thought the measures, being introduced in parliament today, and which put a legal duty on ministers to remove anyone who enters the uk illegally would face legal challenges. here s our political correspondent, iain watson: five years ago, fewer than 300 migrants attempted to cross the channel in a small boat. last year, more than 16,000 undertook the hazardous journey. and as the numbers grew, so too did the political pressure on the government. so injanuary this year, the prime minister made this pledge. we will pass new laws to stop small
by wang yi, who s returning from his semi retirement. again, a lot of rumours about how the two men may not have got on, but is this about political infighting, which could show the problems at the top with how china runs things? yeah, i think it s it s possible that they didn t get along or that the knives were out for oin gang because he had been promoted very quickly. he was relatively young for his position and wasn t exactly helicoptered up to the highest levels, but he it was a pretty fast rise. clearly, he was xijinping s person. i think the bigger issue to me is that it s another one of a string of very public problems that xi jinping has faced over the past 12 months. and the first decade or so that he was in power, from his perspective at least, things went very, very smoothly. but like leaders, many leaders around the world, after you ve been in power
sent this update from beijing. this is, of course, absolutely massive news in china and yet in typical fashion it came in such a muted way with just a few sentences read out on the evening television news bulletin that the foreign minister oin gang was to be removed from his post and replaced by the communist party s seniorforeign affairs official, wang yi, someone who has done thejob before. for the chinese people that is all they get and i suppose it is for them to accept it. that is the idea. the government made a decision, this is your foreign minister, he is gone, no more explanation as to why. the interesting thing, though, is how somebody who was seen as being so close to xi jinping, who was appointed by xi jinping only half a year
reported previously to one named foreign minister and also as the counsellor who oversees foreign affairs. but everybody in the foreign affairs bureaucracy reports directly to the chinese president. they don t improvise much. so when qin gang, who is seen as something of a wolf warrior who reveled in attacks on the west, the united states in particular, when he engaged in that kind of behaviour, this was understood to be with the approval of the chinese president himself. so i don t think we re going to see a major change in china s diplomacy either or in its style because oin gang is out. it won t matter that much. style because qin gang is out. it won t matter that much.- style because qin gang is out. it won t matter that much. thank you ve much won t matter that much. thank you very much indeed won t matter that much. thank you very much indeed for won t matter that much. thank you very much indeed for that - won t matter that much. thank you very much indeed for that one. - won