number one side. good evening. a last minute legal challenge at the european court of human rights has cast doubt on whether the first flight this evening sending asylum seekers from britain to rwanda will go ahead. the court in strasbourg has issued an order blocking the removal of one of the handful of individuals expected to be on board, among them iraqi kurds and iranians. the bbc understands that the home office in london now thinks that the court could prevent any planned removals today. the government insists the flights are necessary to deter people trafficking gangs helping thousands cross the channel. here s our home editor mark easton. the flight to an uncertain future is ready for take off. just a handful of asylum seekers will be forced to board this evening, seven at most, each with a one way ticket to rwanda, a country they have never been to and don t wish to go to. awnd this is why, this morning more than 300 people arrived in dover having attempted to cr
Condemning israeli settlements on palestinian territory. It happened because the United States changed its usual veto policy and abstained in the vote. Well, israels ambassador to the un said that it was a shameful move, but the us said it had long argued against settle m e nt it had long argued against Settlement Building. The resolution specifically calls for an end to settle m e nt specifically calls for an end to Settlement Building in the west bank and eastjerusalem, settlements that are considered illegal under international law. The us and israeli ambassadors to the un responded soon after the vote. Today the Security Council reaffirmed its established consensus that settlements have no legal validity. The United States has been sending the message that the settle m e nts sending the message that the settlements must stop, privately and publicly, for nearly five decades. By publicly, for nearly five decades. By voting yes, in favour of this resolution, you have in fact voted iio
could have higher pay because we would be producing more, but gdp growth has been flat, productivity growth has been flat, productivity growth is really weak. as a consequence four or 6% pay growth is either going to be seen in lower profits are higher prices and i think in practice, a lot of it may well be seeing higher prices. hosp well be seeing higher prices. how challenging well be seeing higher prices. how challenging is well be seeing higher prices. how challenging is it, well be seeing higher prices. how challenging is it, because it seems, as you have touched on, none of the jobs market is really playing by the rules. it s all been turned on its head. and as he touched on a record number of people moving jobs, again, that would suggest that people feel optimistic, very upbeat about their prospects and jobs going forward. we know that is just not the case either, given the looming threat of economic slowdown or potentially a recession. it economic slowdown or potentially
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is taking what we assume are those asylum seekers into the base ready for that flight tonight. it was seven, it was going to be three iranians, two iraqi kurds in albanian and vietnamese, we don t know which nationality is now not on that flight. it spun down from 76, as a result of this intervention by the european court of human rights. one imagines this is very much a still life legal matter and for their injunctions issued by this european court of human rights could follow, that number could dwindle even further from sex. maybe down below that, but so far, as we understand officially, the fight is due to take off on it 6300 mile journey from here arriving in rwanda for asylum seekers on board. for asylum seekers on boa rd. sometime for asylum seekers on board. sometime early tomorrow morning, and they are destined after that to a place called the hope hostel. duncan, thank you very much for that update and we will stay right across