three times the pre brexit average of 200 250,000 a year. let s speak to mikejones, who is executive director at migration watch, a british think tank which argues for lower immigration in the uk. the first thing we should say when we talk about those pre brexit figures, there s an awful lot of stuff that s happened since then. indeed. public opinion is strongly in favour of stricter immigration controls, and there is a widespread belief that this is the government s objective too. there is this sort of common belief that if there s a spike in immigration, it s to government lapses, possibly involving illegal entry or exploitation of the asylum system. but in reality, the spike in immigration results in deliberate policy, not its failure. so the figures have leapt from 606,000 to a staggering 745,000. and this reveals a betrayal of the government s policy to take back control, causing inflation numbers to go into the tens of thousands, and the numbers at 670,000 - tens of tho
in the semi finals tomorrow. jannik sinner won his singles match andthen teamed up with lorenzo sonego to take the deciding doubles for a 2 1victory over the netherlands the 12 teams still in with a chance of qualifying for euro 2024 have found out what route they ll need to take to make it to germany next summer. wales missed out on the last automatic spot on tuesday so they ll now need to beat finland in the play off semi finals in march and then beat either poland or estonia to book their place at the championships. what s important is the home draw in the second leg, we have to get him job done first and foremost but we are probably wanting to avoid ukraine as well a month so i think it has gone to plan for us. i don t think any team in that group would have been wanted to play us. the form we are in at the minute and with the red wall at home we would take anybody on in cardiff. elsewhere, 2004 champions greece will need to beat kazakhstan and then either georgia o
prisoners being held in israeli jails will be also be released, as part of the delayed deal. a four day pause in fighting in gaza will start on friday morning, at 7 local time, after almost seven weeks of fighting. the humanitarian aid will start to go into gaza, as soon as that pause in hostilities begins. those details him a little qatar s foreign ministry spokesman majed al ansari briefed reporters about the truce. we have just finished with all the communication with all parties in order to ascertain the lists of those civilians who will be freed as a result of the deal agreed upon by both parties. the lists have been handed to both sides. and finally, in a communication just now, the list has been handed to the israeli intelligence service, the mossad, in order to facilitate the implementation of the deal. according to this, of course, and as the agreement took place, the 24th of november and it will last, of course, as agreed, as agreed, forfour days. and the first batc
released, have been handed to qatari mediators, and passed on to israeli negotiators. prisoners being held in israeli jails will be also be released, as part of the delayed deal. a four day pause in fighting in gaza will start on friday morning, at 07:00 local time, after almost seven weeks of fighting. humanitarian aid will start to go into gaza, as soon as that pause in hostilities begins. qatar s foreign ministry spokesman majed al ansari has been speaking about the truce. we have just finished with all the communication with all parties in order to ascertain the lists of those civilians who will be freed as a result of the deal agreed upon by both parties. the lists have been handed to both sides. and finally, in a communication just now, the list has been handed to the israeli intelligence service, the mossad, in order to facilitate the implementation of the deal. according to this, of course, and as the agreement took place, the beginning of the pause will be 7am frid
israel and hamas agree to pause the fighting at seven in the morning, local time. and a giant win for conservation blue whales return to the waters where they were once wiped out by hunting. sport, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s chetan pathak. good afternoon. let us go to maga where we are good afternoon. let us go to maga where we are into good afternoon. let us go to maga where we are into a good afternoon. let us go to maga where we are into a doubles - good afternoon. let us go to magal where we are into a doubles decider in the davis cup quarterfinal between netherlands and italy. the netherlands are trying to reach their first semifinal since 2001. they grabbed the advantage in the first match. this match took an hour to win in straight sets means it comes down to the doubles. where sincere is back on the court. sinner is. the first set has gone to the italians 6 3. the winner will play the winner of the final tire. serbia take on gre