people could be on the first scheduled flight to rwanda on tuesday. the controversial government plan, anyone who arrived in britain illegally since january 1st of this year could be relocated to rwanda. we are joined now by not a bashir who his life for us and more with the story. with this be the last legal hurdle to what we have already said is a very controversial policy? reporter: paula, there is a much broader legal question over the legality of the entire policy of deporting asylum- seekers from the uk to rwanda. as you mentioned, this legal challenge we are seeing in the high court, today, could have a very immediate consequences. that flight, scheduled to leave tomorrow will carry asylum- seekers to rwanda, the first flight to take part in this policy. there was a legal challenge on friday, put forward by advocacy groups, including care for calais, which does a lot of work in france, in the northern
this is bbc news, i m martine croxall. the headlines. the ukrainian ambassador to the uk tells the bbc there will be a swap to free two britons sentenced to death by russia it comes as the defence secretary ben wallace meets with ukraine s president zelensky on an unannounced trip to kyiv. the home office reveals that three asylum seekers, due to be flown to rwanda on tuesday, will now not be removed. another asylum seeker is still fighting his removal in the high court. a congressional inquiry says last year s violent attack on the us capitol was part of a conspiracy to keep mr trump in office a chain of failures by the authorities at the champions league final in paris has severely damaged france s image, according to a french government report.