for the conservatives at the election , was recorded expressing the view at a private event in april. but he went on to defend the plan, saying it would deter migrants from crossing the channel. he was speaking on two april at an event for young conservatives. everybody s got the cameras on their phones. in australia, for example, a similar policy had let s recap now on the uk s flagship illegal immigration policy. as of last week, more than 11 thousand people had crossed the channel to the uk in small boats this year. in april 2022, the government announced that asylum seekers entering the uk from a safe country could be sent to rwanda, where they would have their asylum claims processed. the uk government had paid £240 million to rwanda by the end of 2023 on the scheme. no migrants have as yet been transferred to rwanda as the government has faced legal challenges against the scheme. our political correspondent jessica parkerjoins us now from westminster. talk us through w
fulton county jail after, of course, being criminally charged, allegedly trying to overturn joe biden s election victory in the state of georgia. meanwhile, mark meadows you know who that is, of course. he is trying a now last-ditch legal maneuver to try to avoid his own surrender by, of course, that friday noon deadline. and you ve got a dozen defendants, including the former president. they have all struck bond deals that have been signed by a judge. a dozen of course, is not yet 18. we also learned tonight that rudy giuliani set to meet with the fulton county da s office tomorrow. talk about a possible bond agreement i want to turn right now to cnn correspondent tom foreman. he s at the magic wall, breaking it down for us on what s happening right now. also cnn senior law enforcement analyst and former fbi director andrew mccabe and sarah matthews, and former federal prosecutor jeanne rossi. but back to you, tom foreman, in terms of what is going on right now.
nonetheless could this just be a distraction? focusing us on what s happening in kyiv and the real battles going on somewhere else? possibly, yet. ithink battles going on somewhere else? possibly, yet. i think with the ukrainian counteroffensive gets under way we will know about it. so with that this is not really a distraction but is hard as i know military strategist but sitting here trying to figure out what the rationale for this is on the part of president putin is quite hard about with anything cogent apart from a sort of a desperate attempt to undermine the morale and the ukrainian capital not for me having much of the way a military impact. interestingly that some of the talk stephanie has moved beyond the war and an announcement tonight perhaps and an announcement tonight perhaps a request coming from the accrediting authority say they would accrediting authority say they would a demilitarised zone about 100 bloggers along the border inside russia along the border with ukraine
joins us live from kiev update us on what s happening there, david. victor amerada? yes you had this strikes in the eastern region of ukraine, which now the death toll has increased to at least eight people are devastating strikes, both shelling and rocket attacks in that part of the country. you also had this moment that wagner the mercenary group has shared in a propaganda coup somewhat of their black flag right in the center of mahmoud. that s an area that s been heavily contested by ukrainian russian troops. and of course, that mercenary group, it doesn t necessarily mean they have taken that city, but it does show there s still heavy. fighting in the area, and this war has dragged on now for many, many months has been serious casualties, of course by the ukrainian military and civilians , but those who survive often have very devastating injuries and we met up with a team of american and canadian surgeons who tried to fix them. some of
alameda research and 29 young yang. how will their pleas bolster the case against mr. fried. they will sell him up the river because he is the big fish here and his tentacles went everywhere into the entertainment industry and sports world an especially our political world. the story broke 2 or 3 days after the mid-term elections. after all of that cash had been laundered through the system and sent different places and houses were bought and campaigns were funded and consultants got their cash and the democrats won because he was the second largest donor to the democrats, then this story collapses. this guy is in a lot of trouble. clearly they will cut deals to make sure that he goes away and they will get lesser sentences. that s how the whole operation works. julie: these three were tight. it makes it more interesting for me. mr. wang, ms. ellison weren t