to the country. the plan was announced over a year ago. enable 2022, the british announced over a year ago. enable 2022, the british government - 2022, the british government announced plans to send some asylum seekers to orlando. this was the announcement by the then home secretary pretty patel. those who come by the channel may be relocated to rwanda where they will have their asylum claims considered. the first flight carrying asylum seekers was cancelled just minutes before take off. that was after intervention from the european court of human rights, but sex was later in december 2022, the high court ruled it was lawful but six months later. however, thejudges gave the go ahead to several individual asylum seekers and a charity to challenge their decision, this is whyjudges at the court of appeal had been looking into the issue. in march the home secretary was in rwanda s capital and was given a tour of potential migrant housing. it said it could have 1000 asylum se
the paris suburb of non terre that s where the fatal shooting of a 17 year old boy by police took place on tuesday which triggered unrest. there ve also been disturbances with police in the southern city of mar say. at least 100 people have been arrested. in the past hour, we ve learned that the policeman who shot nahel has apologised to his family while in custody. lucy williamson reports. in nanterre today, thousands gathered to mark the void left by one local teenager and the rage that flowed in to fill it. the violence here last night still mapped onto the surrounding streets in ash and debris. nahel s mother leading a chant of police assassins. evan came from a suburb on the other side of paris but the problems there were just the same, he said. translation: we don t have jobs, we don t get hired - if we don t lie on our cv. there is nothing for us. we feel abandoned. and on top of that we get attacked by the people supposed to protect us. this is one offence too man
but controversial rwanda policy had a new roadblock today, with the appeal court including the east african country is not safe enough for the uk to send asylum seekers there. but the lord chiefjustice, lord burnett, announced it had been a split decision. he thinks rwanda is safe, but his two colleagues did not. deficiencies in the asylum system in rwanda are such that there are substantial grounds for believing that there is a real risk that persons sent to remand it will be returned to their home countries, where they face persecution or other inhumane treatment, when in fact, they have a good claim for asylum. in that sense, rwanda is not a safe third country. the government will be disappointed by today s majorityjudgment a blow for the home secretary, who s expressed her personal enthusiasm for getting flights to rwanda started as soon as possible. but that s not the end of the legaljourney the matter will almost certainly now move to the supreme court for a final h