Their small boat got into difficulties off the french coast. Its understood that a number of people were pulled from the water and taken to the port at calais. The latest rescue operation comes after Senior Border force officials raised concerns that people in small boats are using children as human shields to evade police. Last week, over 900 migrants crossed to the uk. Well, the Northern Ireland secretary says the government is surprised by how quickly their rwanda plan appears to be working. Speaking at a british irish conference in london, Chris Heaton Harris said they hadnt expected the deterrent effect to begin before flights took off. It comes after the Irish Government said it has seen an 80 increase in Asylum Seekers entering from Northern Ireland. They want to return them to the uk, but the government says that will only be possible if we can send small boat migrants back to the eu. Boat migrants back to the eu. It was always going to be the case. We believed as a government
Continue in his post until a replacement can be found. Replacement can be found. Clearly emotional, mr yousaf said hes quitting to help repair relationships across the political divide. Political divide. No, ella whelan certainly bear no grudge against anyone. Politics can be a brutal business. It takes its toll on your physical and mental health. Your family suffer alongside you. I am in absolute debt to my wonderful wife, my beautiful children and my wider family for putting up with me over the years. Im afraid you will be seeing a lot more of me from how. Now. The race to replace humza yousaf starts now. Former deputy first minister john swinney says hes considering it carefully. Ive got lots of things to think about and theres the whole question of my, my family and i have to make sure that i do the right thing by my family. Theyre precious to me. I have to do the right thing by my party and by my country. So theres lots to be thought about and ill give all of that consideration in
A hole in the ozone layer over antarctica, thats fuelled by smoke from Wildfire Events in australia, is exposing wildlife to protentially damaging levels of uv light. Scientists from the University Of Wollongong say animals and plants are having to put more energy into avoiding the rays. Heres our science correspondent victoria gill. The ozone layer that protects us from the suns most harmful rays is healing gradually. But in antarctica, in cold high atmospheric clouds, a hole in that layer still appears every year. That Ozone Thinning or loss used to peak in september or october, when animals and plants are tucked under winter snow and marine animals are protected by sea ice. But its now lingering until december, well into the antarctic summer, when wildlife is much more vulnerable. Researchers say thats been driven in part by smoke from the australian wildfires in 2019 and 2020, which were fuelled by climate change. The researchers found evidence that antarctic plants might have to p
Are at risk from the rays. Welcome to bbc news. President zelensky has renewed his appeal for allies to provide ukraine with more air defences, after another night of russian bombardment caused serious damage to Energy Infrastructure. He called for decisive action, saying the world could shoot down every missile and drone launched by, what he called, russian terrorists. Four power plants were hit in three regions, and Gas Infrastructure was also struck. An oil refinery in occupied slavyansk was damaged. Reports indicate a second oil refinery was also hit, and video has emerged of destruction at an airbase. A little earlier i spoke to victoria vdovychenko programme directorfor Security Studies at the centre for defence strategies, a Ukrainian Security think tank. The most important is the time space and that is very important also, our allies understand that the shortage of the weapons on the ground, in the field, on the ukrainian battlefield in particular, therefore, it was so timely,
Labour senior backbencher Stephen Timms will fill us in on what their what to look out for from their Conference Liverpool next conference in liverpool next week. Taking the week. And ill be taking the temperature of the party with a special people panel this week live the tory members and live with the tory members and im going to be joined by my colleague at the telegraph, the papers papers Political Editor, Ben Riley Smith. Hes not got a great new book out which spills the on the last years the beans on the last 13 years of rule and hell be of tory rule and hell be revealing all to me later. First of though, lets run of all, though, lets run through those front pages as you can imagine, the conference does dominate in a number of key cabinet ministers have out dominate in a number of key cabiabout nisters have out dominate in a number of key cabiabout basedi have out dominate in a number of key cabiabout based hinckley out dominate in a number of key cabiabout based hinckley talking