countries seized from russia. the final communique says, we reaffirm our unwavering support for ukraine for as long as it takes. together with international partners, we are determined to continue to provide military, budget, humanitarian, and reconstruction support. we remain strongly committed to helping ukraine meet its urgent short term financing needs, as well as supporting its long term priorities. meanwhile, world leaders from more than 100 countries are coming together in switzerland this weekend, by invitation of president volodymyr zelensky, to discuss how to bring an end to the war in ukraine. mr zelensky hopes the gathering in switzerland will sustain the last few days momentum for ukraine. russia and china are notably absent from this weekend s summit. but some countries have reservations. saudi arabia s foreign minister said difficult compromises will be needed to reach a peace agreement to end the war in ukraine. the leaders of italy and germany stron
a higher number than the one the pm promised to reduce to zero. so, with thousands of the legacy group still in the system as well as all those new cases, can the government really claim to have abolished the backlog? this is how the home secretaryjames cleverly explains it. they ve all been through that processing. dealt with in terms of getting through that, as i say, that adjudicating, initial adjudicating process. that s what we meant by addressing the backlog. we have done that. we ve completed that. so a distinction being made between claims processed and claims resolved. and we also know that a third of the legacy backlog asylum applications processed were neither accepted nor rejected. 35,000 were withdrawn or voided often because the home office had lost contact with the claimant. the labour party says the government is massaging the numbers. rishi sunak s claim to havej cleared the asylum backlog
because to get a good story out of this because migration is probably the biggest because migration is probably the biggest political hot potato in westminster at the moment as 2424 started. westminster at the moment as 2424 started. an westminster at the moment as 2424 started, an election year and clearly started, an election year and clearly the conservative party is keen clearly the conservative party is keen to clearly the conservative party is keen to show that it is on top of migration keen to show that it is on top of migration and making progress on asylum migration and making progress on asylum claims, it all folds into the small asylum claims, it all folds into the small boats issue as well which has been small boats issue as well which has been huge. small boats issue as well which has been huge, the increase the number coming been huge, the increase the number coming across the channel. clearly clearing coming across the channel. clearly clearing t
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welcome to world news america. we start with the deepening crisis in niger as european nations begin evacuating hundreds of citizens from the country. france, italy, and spain announced the evacuations over concerns that their nationals would become trapped after a military coup plunged the nation into crisis. the regional bloc ecowas has threatened to use force to reinstage niger s ousted president mohamed bazoum. niger s new military leaders have warned against these attempts. some countries in the region have come to the new leadership s defence, including burkina faso, mali, and guinea declaring that any military invention in niger would be considered a declaration of war. niger is located in the sahel region. it s a key region for western countries in counterterrorism operations. the uk foreign secretaryjames cleverly is visiting west africa and talked to the bbc about the coup s impact on the fight against insurgency.