one last dangerous journey to reach the uk. there s no shortage of customers for the people smugglers. where are you aiming to go? will you stay in france? where do you want to go? really, i want to go to england. and do you have family in england? yeah, i have my brother. he s in england. and do you know that the british government is saying that it will send people to rwanda if they re not accepted? i know that, but what can i do? just, i want to stay in england. the opposition to the government s rwanda plan starts here. careacalais is one of a number of groups challenging
france that refugees and economic migrants face theirfinal hurdle. the channel. one last dangerous journey to reach the uk. there s no shortage of customers for the people smugglers. where are you aiming to go? will you stay in france? where do you want to go? really, i want to go to england. and do you have family in england? yeah, i have my brother. he s in england. and do you know that the british government is saying that it will send people to rwanda if they re not accepted? i know that, but what can i do? just, i want to stay in england. the opposition to the government s rwanda plan starts here.
they won t be afraid of going to rwanda. earlier this month, the plan was challenged in the high court in london. a ruling is expected later in the autumn. the united nations refugee agency says the uk government needs to change course. the numbers are going up. the people who are taking these journeys are well aware that they are at risk of being transferred to rwanda it s not stopping them. what is being achieved here? almost nothing. it s hugely expensive and the very high probability is that those that do come to rwanda will leave very, very quickly and we are right back where we started again. the government says the rwanda plan is legal and safe and will help fix the broken asylum system. it wants to stop the people smugglers and prevent further loss of life.
but there s no sign of the plan working yet. the numbers arriving in the uk are still rising. this month, the number of arrivals by boat reached a new record. jane corbin, bbc news. and you can watch panorama s investigation channel crisis: can people smugglers be stopped? on bbc one at 8 00pm tonight. this evening, nasa are planning to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid to change its course. the space rock doesn t pose any danger to the earth, but this mission will test whether an asteroid could be diverted if it was heading for our planet. our science editor rebecca morelle has more. it s the stuff of hollywood an asteroid threatening to wipe out the earth and a mission to stop it, like in the film, armageddon. but now, nasa is turning science fiction into science fact. they are about to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid to try