the government s asylum policy was like 1930s germany. also in the programme this lunchtime. an arctic blast sweeps through many parts of the uk with snow and ice causing travel problems. a big rise in the number of dog attacks recorded by police in england and wales. and a month on from the dramatic rescue of this man from the rubble of the turkish earthquake, he s reunited with the british search team who saved his life. and coming up on the bbc news channel andy murray expects russian and belarusian players will be allowed to play at wimbledon this summer, and says he doesn t mind if they do. good afternoon. in the last hour, the prime minister has been defending his government s new plan to stop migrants arriving illegally in the uk on small boats. rishi sunak told the house of commons that only the conservatives would stop the boats. but the labour leader sir keir starmer said the government is simply offering gimmicks and empty promises . the measures announced
and the current situation that s happening in ukraine. i m hoping that the vat will be cut and the business rate, as that will help us. and how likely do you think that is to happen, just given where the uk s finances are right now? well, i m hoping they will work out something, you know, to help and to give support to the businesses. we rejust going to wait for the plan. firms have drawn up their wish lists. the treasury said it has provided hundreds of billions of pounds of support to businesses during the pandemic and the war in ukraine, and said the budget will set out the next stage in its plans for growth. noor nanji, bbc news in slough. it s beenjust over a month since devastating earthquakes hit turkey and syria, killing more than 50,000 people. the uk international search and rescue team were one of the teams who arrived in the immediate aftermath of the disaster. and among those they helped, was a man who d been trapped beneath the rubble in turkey
she alerted them to another man, serdar, who was still trapped. serdar was passing in and out of consciousness, so we knew he was more critically ill. hello, i m malcolm, the doctor. it seemed that his legs were trapped underneath a sort of concrete block. and at that point, that s where we have to start making decisions about what s going to happen next in the rescue. and you were chosen to actually do the extraction. why was that? i m quite a small and nimble member of the team, and these voids are very, very small. getting serdar out took several more hours. in hospital, he tweeted his thanks to malcolm, sarah and the rest of the team, but he also wanted to talk to them. you re about to speak to serdar. what s going through your mind?
the government s asylum policy was like 1930s germany. also in the programme this lunchtime. an arctic blast sweeps through many parts of the uk with snow and ice causing travel problems. a big rise in the number of dog attacks recorded by police in england and wales. and a month on from the dramatic rescue of this man from the rubble of the turkish earthquake, he s reunited with the british search team who saved his life. and coming up on the bbc news channel andy murray expects russian and belarusian players will be allowed to play at wimbledon this summer, and says he doesn t mind if they do. good afternoon. in the last hour, the prime minister
i m slightly intrigued as to what he s going to remember. we were in some very, very tight and awkward positions. but you kind of build an attachment to someone when you re in there for that long. you never really get to recontact people that you rescued. so this is a complete one off. malcolm! hello. nice to see you. serdar. hi. my mummy! hi. she says thank you very much. very much. it s our pleasure. daddy. 0h, she s beautiful. thank you! you are my hero. always been, you know. oh, that means a lot to us. and we re really, really pleased.